道德领导行为和5大人格特质因素外文翻译.docVIP

外文翻译 Ethical Leader Behavior and Big Five Factors of Personality Material Source: Journal of Business Ethics Author:Karianne Kalshoven Deanne N. Den Hartog Annebel H. B. De Hoogh Research shows that personal characteristics affect leaders’ influence ( Anderson et al., 2008).However,we do not yet suf?ciently understand why some people in a leadership situation choose to influence others through ethical behaviors manner while others choose less ethical behaviors. Traits are likely to play a role in this. So far, however, research has mainly focused on consequences rather than the antecedents of ethical leader behavior, though theory does predict individual differences will play a role in ethical leadership (Brown and Trevino，2006).Expanding our knowledge of the antecedents of ethical leadership is crucial, because only when such antecedents are known, organizations can purposefully in?uence the selection, training, and development of such leaders and in turn bene?t from the positive outcomes of ethical leadership. For example, if ethical behavior is associated to stable traits,organizations may wish to more speci?cally aim to select leaders who are high on these traits to stimulate ethical behavior on the work place. Previous literature has proposed that various individual differences are likely to be associated with ethical leadership, including level of cognitive moral development, concern for people, reliability, and responsibility (cf. Bass and Steidlmeier, 1999; Brown et al., 2005; Brown and Trevino, 2006;De Hoogh and Den Hartog, 2008; Turner et al., 2002).For example, De Hoogh and Den Hartog (2008) found that highly socially responsible leaders are perceived as more ethical. Also, Mayer et al. (2008) found that leader moral identity is related to ethical leadership. In this study, we will focus on the‘‘Big Five’’personality traits. The‘‘Big Five’’are believed to be basic underlying trait dimensions of personality (e.g., Goldberg, 1990) and have been re