How Ethical Leadership Shapes Employees' Readiness to Change: The Mediating Role of an Organizational Culture of Effectiveness.
Front Psychol. 2019; 10:2493.FP

Abstract

Today's organizations are operating in a highly competitive and changing environment that pushes them to continuously adapt their organizational structures to such environment. However, the success of change initiatives may face a barrier in the response of employees, especially when they lack readiness to change. While leadership can shape the culture of an organization and a culture of effectiveness can help increase employees' readiness to change, ethical leaders, who serve as a guide and offer support, can also make a difference by reducing uncertainty. Yet existing research on the role of ethical leadership in the enhancement of the employees' readiness to change is practically non-existent. Far less is the research that analyses the mechanisms that ethical leadership can use to foster employees' readiness to change. This study aims to investigate whether the ethical leadership of middle-lower echelons influences on employees' readiness to change positively (H1) and if this relationship is mediated through shaping an organizational culture of effectiveness (H2). Using data from 270 direct reports of middle-lower managers in public foreign trade Egyptian companies, the findings reveal that ethical leadership enhances employees' readiness to change and that this impact is partially mediated by an organizational culture of effectiveness. Thus, with these findings, new light is shed on the positive role of ethical leadership and the mechanisms it uses to enhance employees' readiness to change.

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Metwally D

Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, Helwan University, Helwan, Egypt.

Ruiz-Palomino P

Faculty of Business Administration, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain.

Metwally M

University of Deusto, Deusto Business School, Bilbao, Spain.

Gartzia L

Faculty of Business Administration, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain.

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Journal Article

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eng

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31798489

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Metwally, Dina, et al. "How Ethical Leadership Shapes Employees' Readiness to Change: the Mediating Role of an Organizational Culture of Effectiveness." Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 10, 2019, p. 2493.

Metwally D, Ruiz-Palomino P, Metwally M, et al. How Ethical Leadership Shapes Employees' Readiness to Change: The Mediating Role of an Organizational Culture of Effectiveness. Front Psychol. 2019;10:2493.

Metwally, D., Ruiz-Palomino, P., Metwally, M., & Gartzia, L. (2019). How Ethical Leadership Shapes Employees' Readiness to Change: The Mediating Role of an Organizational Culture of Effectiveness. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2493. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02493

Metwally D, et al. How Ethical Leadership Shapes Employees' Readiness to Change: the Mediating Role of an Organizational Culture of Effectiveness. Front Psychol. 2019;10:2493. PubMed PMID: 31798489.

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TY - JOUR T1 - How Ethical Leadership Shapes Employees' Readiness to Change: The Mediating Role of an Organizational Culture of Effectiveness. AU - Metwally,Dina, AU - Ruiz-Palomino,Pablo, AU - Metwally,Mohamed, AU - Gartzia,Leire, Y1 - 2019/11/14/ PY - 2018/11/02/received PY - 2019/10/22/accepted PY - 2019/12/5/entrez PY - 2019/12/5/pubmed PY - 2019/12/5/medline KW - ethical leadership KW - organizational change KW - organizational culture KW - organizational culture of effectiveness KW - readiness to change SP - 2493 EP - 2493 JF - Frontiers in psychology JO - Front Psychol VL - 10 N2 - Today's organizations are operating in a highly competitive and changing environment that pushes them to continuously adapt their organizational structures to such environment. However, the success of change initiatives may face a barrier in the response of employees, especially when they lack readiness to change. While leadership can shape the culture of an organization and a culture of effectiveness can help increase employees' readiness to change, ethical leaders, who serve as a guide and offer support, can also make a difference by reducing uncertainty. Yet existing research on the role of ethical leadership in the enhancement of the employees' readiness to change is practically non-existent. Far less is the research that analyses the mechanisms that ethical leadership can use to foster employees' readiness to change. This study aims to investigate whether the ethical leadership of middle-lower echelons influences on employees' readiness to change positively (H1) and if this relationship is mediated through shaping an organizational culture of effectiveness (H2). Using data from 270 direct reports of middle-lower managers in public foreign trade Egyptian companies, the findings reveal that ethical leadership enhances employees' readiness to change and that this impact is partially mediated by an organizational culture of effectiveness. Thus, with these findings, new light is shed on the positive role of ethical leadership and the mechanisms it uses to enhance employees' readiness to change. SN - 1664-1078 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/31798489/How_Ethical_Leadership_Shapes_Employees'_Readiness_to_Change:_The_Mediating_Role_of_an_Organizational_Culture_of_Effectiveness_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -

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