Definition and effects of Ethical leadership

• Project/Area Number: 25380844
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: Sakata Kiriko 広島大学, 総合科学研究科, 教授 (00235152)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): HORIE Tsuyoshi 大阪大学, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (50379898) ; SHIMIZU Hiroshi 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (60621604)
• Research Collaborator: WATANABE Mikiyo 広島大学, 大学院総合科学研究科, 博士課程後期
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: 社会系心理学 / リーダーシップ / 組織・集団 / 倫理性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aimed to establish the concept of “ethical leadership” that should be enacted by leaders and to examine its effectiveness in order to heighten the ethicality of members and system of organizations. We conducted three studies as follows. 1) Examining the component factors of the concept “ethicality of employees”, we developed a series of measuring scales. 2) contributing behaviours of leaders for “ethicality of employees” were examined and confirmed. 3) Contributing factors to ethical decision-making of the leaders themselves were clarified.

Research Products

• [Presentation] Factors contributing to ethicality of employees in Japanese organizations (2014)
  • Author(s): Watanabe,M. and Sakata,K.
  • Organizer: 28th International Congress of Applied Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: パリ国際会議場，フランス
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-11
• [Presentation] Factors contributing to ethicality of employees in Japanese organizations (2014)
  • Author(s): Mikiyo Watanabe & Kiriko Sakata
  • Organizer: the 28th International Congress of Applied Psychology
  • Place of Presentation: パリ国際会議場（フランス）