The Impact of Ethical Leadership and Leadership Effectiveness on Employees’ Turnover Intention: The Mediating Role of Work Related Stress

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

“…Elci et al (2012) found out that ethical leadership negatively affects turnover intention of employees. Correspondingly, also Babalola et al (2014) stated that ethical leadership moderates the relationship between frequent change and employee turnover intention, while this relation was positive only when ethical leadership was low.…”

“…Studies focusing on the positive consequences of ethical leadership are also numerous (for e.g. Xu et al, 2014;Babalola et al, 2014;Mayer et al, 2012;Elci et al, 2012;Den Hartog and Belschak, 2012;Neubert et al, 2009;Toor and Ofori, 2009).…”

Otel İşletmelerinde Etik Liderlik, Örgütsel Bağlılık ve İş Tatmini Arasındaki İlişki

“…However, in recent years, leadership has become associated with current unethical behaviors (see, for example, Enron, WorldCom, Parmalat) in business life, and governments have imposed new regulations enhancing studies in ethical leadership (Brown, Trevino and Harrison, 2005;Resick et al 2011;Den Hartog and Belschak, 2012). Since the 2000s, many studies (Aronson, 2001;Van den Akker, Heres, Lasthuizen and Six, 2009;April et al, 2010;Mihelic, Lipicnik and Tkavcic, 2010;Kalshoven, Den Hartog, De Hoog, 2011;Elçi, Şener, Aksoy and Alpkan, 2012) have focused on what ethical leadership behavior should be and what its effects are. Resick et al (2011) stated that most leadership theories and research were created with a Western perspective in mind.…”

“…Zhu, May and Avolio (2004: 18) defined ethical leaders as "individuals who are impartial and unbiased, exhibit ethical behaviors, take the wishes of people into notice and protect their employees' rights fairly". Ethical leaders guide not only their workers in their enterprises but also the shareholders and aims of the enterprise (Elçi et al, 2012) and they are role models for their followers (Watson, 2010). Resick et al (2006), in their study, indicated that 6 common characteristics of ethical leaders are character and honesty, ethical awareness, focusing on society, ability to motivate, encourage, empower and take ethical responsibility.…”

An empirical investigation on factors influencing on work stress: Evidence from banking industry

“…According to Lazarus and Folkman (1984), stress is a cognitive mediation between what is provided by an individual and his/her interaction with the environment. According to Lazarus (1995), stress can also be defined as the imbalance between people's perceived environmental demands and their perceived ability to cope with these demands (Elçi et al, 2012). Stress at the workplace has become an important issue because its consequences can take a heavy toll on organizations and their employees (Francis & Barling, 2005;Hart & Cooper, 2001;Tziner & Sharoni, 2014) and even go beyond them, up to the level of the society at large (Petreanu et al, 2013).…”