Impact of Ethical Leadership on Employee Job （伦理领导对员工的影响工作）.pdf

International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 3 No. 11; June 2012 Impact of Ethical Leadership on Employee Job Performance Shukurat Moronke Bello Lecturer Department of Business Administration and Entrepreneurship Bayero University Kano, Nigeria P.M.B 3011, Kano, Nigeria Abstract Despite the growing concern of researchers in the field of business ethics, cases of unethical practices have continue to manifest in corporate organisations. Corporate leaders engage in decisions that have resulted to lack of trust in the organisations leadership; and lack of commitment to organisation’s goals. This paper tries to examine the concept of ethical leadership, the characteristics of an ethical leader, ethical leadership and its impact on employee job performance and how organisations can develop leaders that are not only sound in character but sound in action. Corporate business leaders are expected to be persons of “strong characters” and serve as role models to their employees; which without, the organisation’s goals may be undermined. Two important variables; trust and commitment were discussed for better understanding of ethical leadership and employeejob performance. The study concludes with some suggestions from the literature. Key Words: Ethical Leadership, Employee, Job Performance, Trust, Commitment. 1. Introduction Ethical leadership is a clarion call to the recent credit crisis, the worst global recession since the 1930s; and the various scandals in former leading corpora