The search for good leadership behaviors: A study of the relationship between second-order global leadership dimensions and ethical ideologies.

摘要

What is good leadership? And, what makes leadership good? This study bases itself on the premise that good leadership is both effective and ethical. Thus, the purpose of this study was to find out the relationship between those effective second-order global leadership dimensions and ethical ideologies from the Ethiopian organizational context. In an era where corruption is both a national and global problem, finding out good leadership behaviors, which are both effective and ethical, is critical so that leadership development programs may be designed to develop ethical leaders.;In this study, 160 mid-level managers of four Ethiopian governmental organizations were asked to fill out a 145-item questionnaire that is generated from two foundational questionnaires; namely, the Leader Attributes and Behavior Questionnaire (LABQ), which is developed by the GLOBE project, and Ethics Position Questionnaire (EPQ) developed by Donelson R. Forsyth.;The data were analyzed using SPSS version 20. Data analytic procedures included descriptive statistics that includes frequency, mean, median, and median splitting of the scores. The major analytic procedure employed in this study, in addition to descriptive statistics, included multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), factorial MANOVA, and multinomial regression. Whenever MANOVA and factorial MANOVA indicated significant p values, analysis of variance (ANOVA) together with post hoc test was used as a follow-up test. Findings of the study are presented with pertinent analysis by discussing relevant issues related to leadership and ethics for the Ethiopian context.