Impact of Ethical Leadership on Follower’s In-role Performance: Evidence from Pakistan

Abstract

In the modern world of business, the competition is fierce, the margins are thinning; raising employee performance and loyalty is a major concern for organizations. Many cradles of enhancing productivity and loyalty have been unearthed by researchers and one such driver is “ethical leadership” and that is why Douglas Conant explains “to win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.” In this study, we investigate the mediating mechanisms of perceived organizational support (POS) and organizational identification (OI) in explaining the process by which ethical leadership influences follower’s in-role performance. This study covers the banking sector in Pakistan, which recommends that ethical leadership nurtures employee in-role performance via POS and organizational identification. This study also offers implication for theory and practices.

Keywords. Organizational Identification. POS. In-role Performance. Ethical leadership. Pakistan.