Moralized Leadership: The Construction and Consequences of Ethical Leader Perceptions

What is Virtue? Advancing the Conceptualization of Virtue to Inform Positive Organizational Inquiry

“…Increasingly, our workplaces have become our contexts for identity construction (Dutton et al, 2010), our frameworks for moral and ethical conduct (Fehr, Kai Chi, & Dang, 2015), and where we look for meaning, belonging, and opportunities to flourish (Baumeister & Leary, 1995;Michaelson, Pratt, Grant, & Dunn, 2014). Today, our polis is our workplace; our identities are derived less by who we are and what tribe we come from, and more by 'what we do' and where we work.…”

Are Managers in Slovakia Ethical Leaders? Key Findings on the Level of Ethical Leadership in the Slovak Business Environment

“…To add to noise in this plethora of notions, new terms emerge, or old terms are re-introduced into this discourse. For instance, Wright and Quick (2011) bring in the term "character-based leadership", Riggio et al (2010) propose a "virtuebased" leadership approach, and Fehr et al (2015) introduce the "moralized leadership" term. All of the above mentioned concepts regard ethical leadership explicitly or implicitly as a deliberate process.…”

“…Ethical leadership is being investigated from both a theoretical perspective (for e.g. Fehr et al, 2015;Lawton and Paez, 2015;Price, 2008;Brown and Trevino, 2006) and from an empirical angle (for e.g. Yukl et al, 2013;Kalshoven et al, 2011;Riggio et al, 2010;Brown et al, 2005).…”

The “Right” and the “Good” in Ethical Leadership: Implications for Supervisors’ Performance and Promotability Evaluations

“…As Fehr et al (2015) recently observed, current research ''has primarily adopted a narrow conceptualization of ethical leadership, founded on specific assumptions about the content of the moral domain'' (p. 38). They further maintain that although anyone can moralize a leader's actions, to date research has exclusively considered the bottom-up perspective from subordinates.…”

“…In attempting to answer recent calls for a broader perspective on ethical leadership (Fehr et al 2015), our study makes three contributions to the ethical leadership literature. First, we provide a more complete theoretical account of ethical leadership by jointly considering the perspectives of subordinates and managers.…”