Ethical Leadership: Meta-Analytic Evidence of Criterion-Related and Incremental Validity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ng, Thomas W. H.; Feldman, Danicl C.
• 署名单位: University of Hong Kong; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0038246
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 948-965
• 关键词: ETHICAL LEADERSHIP; construct validity; Meta-analysis

摘要

This study examines the criterion-related and incremental validity of ethical leadership (EL) with metaanalytic data. Across 101 samples published over the last 15 years (N = 29,620), we observed that EL demonstrated acceptable criterion-related validity with variables that tap followers' job attitudes, job performance, and evaluations of their leaders. Further, followers' trust in the leader mediated the relationships of EL with job attitudes and performance. In terms of incremental validity, we found that EL significantly, albeit weakly in some cases, predicted task performance, citizenship behavior, and counterproductive work behavior-even after controlling for the effects of such variables as transformational leadership, use of contingent rewards, management by exception, interactional fairness, and destructive leadership. The article concludes with a discussion of ways to strengthen the incremental validity of EL.