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Responsibility, ethics, and leadership: an Indian study

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This paper signifies the inevitability of the responsible practices of leadership into the relation with the subordinates in the Indian organizations. The theme of this study revolves around the responsibility and ethical approach of the top management which directly or indirectly influence the job-related attitudinal behavior of employees. To analyze it empirically, a questionnaire is designed and 138 middle-level managers from four private sector telecom companies in India rated their superiors on 11 items of leadership scale. This study used internal consistency reliability, Pearson correlation, and exploratory factor analysis as statistical techniques. Factor analysis of the scores on such items yielded two dimensions. The paper examines the impact of leadership of managers upon their subordinates in the context of enhancing job satisfaction, affective commitment, and knowledge performance. The results of the study are not completely substantiating empirically to the theory that ethical attitude of leaders enhance commitment and satisfaction of subordinates in Indian context.

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Appendix A

Fig. 1
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Scree plot for the EFA aimed to access managerial leadership

Appendix B

Table 1 Item Contents and Factor Structure and Variance explained
Table 2 Inter correlations amongst the dimensions of value based leadership
Table 3 Correlations amongst the dimensions of value based responsible leadership, affective commitment and productivity
Table 4 Standard multiple regression table predicting affective commitment
Table 5 Standard multiple regression table predicting manager satisfaction
Table 6 Standard multiple regression table predicting knowledge performance

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Saini, D., Sengupta, S.S. Responsibility, ethics, and leadership: an Indian study. Asian J Bus Ethics 5, 97–109 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13520-016-0058-2

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