Ethical Leadership and its Influences on Organizational Performance

Abstract

Ethical leadership strategies in terms of their targets and functions and relevant empirical work is reviewed. Throughout this review, ethical leadership emerges as one of the most far-ranging and influential processes at the interface of cognition and emotion. The quantitative research (survey) has been chosen in order to meet the purpose of the research and to test those relationships empirically the data is collected from structured questionnaire. Sample size is 210 and also Descriptive research study is used as a research design and followed simple random sampling method. the sample was selected from various information technology companies being operative in Chennai. These findings indicate a positive relationship between ethical leadership and organizational performance. Likewise, that ethical leadership sub-elements, namely enhancing positive affect, perspective taking, social modeling, people orientation, power sharing, and ethical guidance were found affecting positively on organizational performance, but with varying and distinct intensity.