Using two samples, we examined and found meaningful perceptions of the ethics between employee relationships with of top leaders and their immediate supervisors of climate, outcomes-perceptions important individual commitment, and organizational top leadership direction, the OCB of civic virtue. Employees draw distinctions between top leader and immediate and immediate supervisor ethics; in the first sample, these distinctions were related to their perceptions of ethics program effectiveness, organizational norms, decision-making processes, and financial resources. Having found differential effects of leader level, the impact of overall leader ethics on employees is compelling. The serious and public collapses revealed in the cases of Enron, Adelphia, and Tyco may represent the final consequence of leader ethics that had in fact been eroding employee perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors for some time. Our research suggests that long before such large-scale organization consequences, leader ethics at both top and immediate supervisor levels have an important impact on employees.