Impacts of Leadership Ethics on Employee Attitudes and the Mediating Role of Organizational Identification

Purpose：This study seeks to 1) make up for the lack of leadership ethics conceptually and in practice; 2) extend existing literature by examining how leadership ethics influences employees’ intentions to stay, job engagement and creativity; and 3) explore whether organizational identification (OID) can mediate the relationship between leadership ethics and its performances Methodology：A total of 300 questionnaires were collected from workers in Chinese companies and analyzed. Findings：The results reveal that leadership ethics causes great differences on the performances. OID as well plays a significant role in relationships. Based on the study, Originality：Results indicate that as leadership ethics has positive effects on this whole progress by achieving high OID, companies should appropriately increase their positive-going social interaction to maximize leadership ethics in order to strengthen organizational competitiveness.