Does the Ethical Leadership of Supervisors Generate Internal Social Capital?

The Impact Employees’ Perceived Business Ethics and Ethical Climate on Organizational Social Capital

“…Pastoriza, Ariño and Ricart (2008) investigated the antecedents and consequences of organizational social capital and demonstrated the effect of ethical managerial behavior on social capital (p. 329). Moreover, Pastoriza and Ariño (2013) confirmed the effect that ethical leadership on the part of supervisors had on generating internal social capital. Su (2014) documented that business ethics had positive impacts upon the development of human capital, intellectual capital and social capital within organizations.…”

How Organizational Embeddedness and Affective Commitment Influence Job Crafting

“…To measure internal social capital, we adapted 11 items from the scale developed by Pastoriza and Ariño (2013); four items for cognitive social capital, four items for relational social capital, and three items for structural social capital. An example item is "People in an organization should realize that they are sometimes going to have to make sacrifices for the sake of the organization as a whole."…”

The effect of ethical leadership on employee social innovation tendency in social enterprises: Mediating role of perceived social capital

“…Furthermore, in accordance with the Brown et al () conceptualization, ethical leaders (a) as moral managers tend to recognize positive behaviors such as sharing information and resources, (b) as moral persons are caring, and use honest and fair managerial practices, that is, hold behavioral attributes that foster trust, and (c) act with integrity and in the interests of others, thus inspiring employees to strive for collective goals beyond their self‐interests. Overall, ethical leaders encourage information and resource sharing, trustful relationships, and accomplishment of common goals among their employees (Pastoriza & Ariño, ). It can thus be argued that by encouraging such behaviors/actions among employees, ethical leaders shape and consolidate employees' perceptions about the organization's acceptability of social capital among its members, and so exert a positive influence on the employees' perceived social capital.Hypothesis Ethical leadership has a positive effect on the perceived social capital among employees .…”

“…They strive to serve the interests of the organization's stakeholders in socially constructive ways (De Hoogh & Den Hartog, 2008;Kanungo, 2001;Treviño et al, 2000Treviño et al, , 2003. When ethical leaders exhibit and exemplify such virtuous and prosocial behaviors, they facilitate a learning process that enables employees to follow suit and rise above parochial interests (Brown et al, 2005;Neubert et al, 2009;Pastoriza & Ariño, 2013;Pastoriza, Ariño, & Ricart, 2008). They encourage a virtuous intent in their employees, who, under the leader's virtuous influence, become more aware of the impact of their actions and decisions on individuals within and outside the organization.…”