“…There is a growing interest among Public Administration (PA) scholars in empirically assessing the impact of ethical leadership in public organizations. Recent studies have found that ethical leadership can improve employee commitment, public service motivation, organizational citizenship behavior, and willingness to report unethical conduct of others and reduce unwarranted absences, workplace incivility and corruption (c.f., Bashir & Hassan, 2019;Downe, Cowell, & Morgan, 2016;Hassan, Wright, & Yukl, 2014;Hassan, 2015;Mozumder, 2018;Wright, Hassan, & Park, 2016;Young, Hassan, & Hatmaker, 2019). Few studies in PA, however, have considered the prevalence, causes, and consequences of unethical leadership behavior in public organizations.…”