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Ethical leadership plays an important role in shaping the ethical culture within organizations. People often associate dominant leadership with strong performance and decision-making power, but recent research by Brady and Sivanathan (2024) shows that this leadership style can also have unintended negative consequences for workplace ethics. These findings are relevant for organizations that strive for both high performance and an ethically responsible work environment.

What is the role of ethics in leadership? Lee et al. (2019) conducted two studies (N = 92 and N = 195) in South Korea on how ethical leadership is related to employee performance and how it differs from some other leadership concepts.