TY - JOUR
T1 - Organizational ethics and workplace incivility
T2 - the mediating effects of transformational and transactional leadership styles
AU - Dartey-Baah, Kwasi
AU - Quartey, Samuel Howard
AU - Wilberforce, Maxwell Tabi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024, Emerald Publishing Limited.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the mediating effects of transformational and transactional leadership styles on the relationship between organizational ethics and workplace incivility. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed cross-sectional survey design. Data were obtained from 209 employees from the telecommunication sector. The structural equation model was employed as the analytical tool to test the hypotheses of the study. Findings: Organizational ethics was negatively related to workplace incivility. Both transformational and transactional leadership styles mediated the relationship between organizational ethics and workplace incivility. Practical implications: Human resource developers and managers can employ, appraise, train and develop managers who can ethically demonstrate transactional, and transformational leadership behaviors to deal with workplace incivilities. Originality/value: The paper makes an important contribution to the existing organizational literature by establishing the relevance of transformational and transactional leadership styles as mediators of the nexus between organizational ethics and workplace incivility in the telecommunication sector.
AB - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the mediating effects of transformational and transactional leadership styles on the relationship between organizational ethics and workplace incivility. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed cross-sectional survey design. Data were obtained from 209 employees from the telecommunication sector. The structural equation model was employed as the analytical tool to test the hypotheses of the study. Findings: Organizational ethics was negatively related to workplace incivility. Both transformational and transactional leadership styles mediated the relationship between organizational ethics and workplace incivility. Practical implications: Human resource developers and managers can employ, appraise, train and develop managers who can ethically demonstrate transactional, and transformational leadership behaviors to deal with workplace incivilities. Originality/value: The paper makes an important contribution to the existing organizational literature by establishing the relevance of transformational and transactional leadership styles as mediators of the nexus between organizational ethics and workplace incivility in the telecommunication sector.
KW - Ghana
KW - Leadership styles
KW - Organizational ethics
KW - Telecommunication sector
KW - Workplace incivility
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U2 - 10.1108/LODJ-07-2023-0363
DO - 10.1108/LODJ-07-2023-0363
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85189140860
SN - 0143-7739
JO - Leadership and Organization Development Journal
JF - Leadership and Organization Development Journal
ER -