Notice of Retraction: Ethical leadership and employee trust: Governance perspective

Abstract

The issues of ethics and governance have received significant interest in recent years due to plethora of ethical scandals in organization. The recent scandals internationally and in Malaysia give us now the opportunity to ask if there is a need for a new paradigm for better governance by integrating ethical leadership and trust. The paper aims to examine the relationships between the ethical leadership dimensions and employee trust from governance perspective. Do employees place more trust on leader who aware on ethical issues? The empirical approach utilized here has been applied to the public sector employees. The findings of the study show a strong relationship between the ethical leadership dimensions and employee trust. The paper's research contribution have important implications for organization in terms of hiring suitable person as leader and also in improving good governance mechanism i.e., ethical leadership from governance perspective. Understanding the implications of the ethical leadership and employee trust towards leader provides organization with opportunities to build trust, gain cooperation, commitment and thus, it can create long term wealth and sustainable competitive advantage.

Ethical leadership in organizations: evidence from the field

“…Ethical leadership positively influences trust (Memiyanty et al, 2010), work engagement (Cheng et al, 2014), psychological safety (Sagnak, 2017), career satisfaction (Pucic, 2015), job satisfaction, moral awareness, moral identity (Tu et al, 2017), learning orientation (Goswami and Agrawal, 2019), moral voice (Lee et al, 2017) and voice behavior (Walumbwa and Schaubroeck, 2009) of followers and "shapes employees' cognition of the job, motivation and competence for the job" (Tu et al, 2017, p. 232). It significantly affects employee satisfaction with leader, leader effectiveness, transformational culture of organization (Toor and Ofori, 2009), supervisor satisfaction (Brown et al, 2005), psychological ownership, affective commitment (Neubert et al, 2009), organizational creativity (Yılmaz, 2010), organizational citizenship behavior (Avey et al, 2011), organizational change (Sharif and Scandura, 2014), organizational identification (Demirtas et al, 2017) and the cognitive, structural and relational dimensions of social capital (Pastoriza and Ariño, 2013).…”

Znanstveno-raziskovalni trendi na področju digitalne preobrazbe

“…Od situacijskih dejavnikov so odvisne uspešnost in učinkovitost uporabe posameznega mehanizma ali implementacija sistema UI. (Brown, Grant, & Sprott, 2005); (Fink & Ploder, 2008); ; (Jiandong & Hongjun, 2010); (Maidin & Arshad, 2010); (Symons, 2005); (Weisinger & Trauth, 2003); (Aagesen et al, 2011);(De Haes & Van Grembergen, 2008b); (Aagesen et al, 2011); (Memiyanty, Putera, & Salleh, 2010).…”

IT Governance Implementation: The Determinant Factors

“…Ethical awareness in corporate governance has a strong effect to ensure employee trust in the workplace (Memiyanty and Putera, 2010). In the interviews performed by Maidin and Arshad (2010), most of the respondents agreed that ethics of compliance is an important aspect for ITG practices.…”

“…Trust -Many scholars claim that the concept of trust and cooperation is crucial for solving or at least minimizing governance failure (Memiyanty and Putera, 2010). …”