Abstract (summary)
Research on ethical leadership suggests that ethical leaders influence subordinate behavior through social learning and role-modeling processes involving emulation and vicarious learning (Brown & Trevino, 2006), but also by way of the relationships they form with subordinates. To-date, management research on ethical leadership has been limited to the prior- the examination of subordinate ethical behavior as a direct result of subordinate striving to emulate ethical leaders. Although useful, this research says little about the exchange relationships that form between ethical leaders and followers, or the potentially wide-ranging outcomes of these relationships. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to examine both when , or under what circumstances ethical leaders are more likely to form relationships with subordinates, and how these relationships in turn impact important organizationally-relevant outcomes, including outcomes not traditionally associated with ethical behavior- from a multi-foci perspective.