The Impact Of Ethical Leadership On Employee Ethical Work Behavior: The Mediating Role Of Employees’ Resilience In KSA

Abstract

The aim of this study is to explore the role of mediating effect of employees’ resilience on the relationship between ethical leadership and employees’ ethical behavior in the universities of Saudi Arabia. The data were collected from academic and non-academic staff who working in King Khalid University (KKU). In order to analyze the research data, we utilized SPSS, and Smart-PLS software for getting the results of this study. The results revealed that ethical leadership has a positive impact on employee resilience and ethical behavior, in contrast, employee resilience is found not predicting ethical behavior. Furthermore, the results also indicated that the mediator of employee resilience is not found. Therefore, these interesting results would open the door wide in front of the organization leaders for paying more attention to the role of being committed to ethics and implementing it at work environment in order to promote the employees’ resilience and ethical behavior.