The results showed that the more ethical the managers evaluated their own leadership behaviour, the better ratings they gave on ethical organisational culture, and thus supported our main hypothesis (H3). The finding also supports previous arguments concerning the connection between leadership and organisational culture (Smircich and Morgan, 1982; Schein, 1985; Kets de Vries, 1994; Block, 2003; Giberson et al., 2009), specifically the connection between ethical leadership and ethical culture of an organisation