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Assessing the effects of responsible leadership and ethical conflict on behavioral intention

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  • Chu-Mei Liu

    (Tamkang University)

  • Chieh-Peng Lin

    (National Chiao Tung University)

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This study develops a research model that elaborates how responsible leadership and ethical conflict influence employees from the perspectives of role theory and attachment theory. Its empirical results reveal that turnover intention indirectly relates to ethical conflict and responsible leadership via the mediating mechanisms of organizational identification and organizational uncertainty. At the same time, helping intention indirectly relates to ethical conflict and responsible leadership only through organizational identification. Finally, the managerial implications for international business and research limitations based on the empirical results are discussed.

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  • Chu-Mei Liu & Chieh-Peng Lin, 2018. "Assessing the effects of responsible leadership and ethical conflict on behavioral intention," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 12(4), pages 1003-1024, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:rvmgts:v:12:y:2018:i:4:d:10.1007_s11846-017-0236-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s11846-017-0236-1
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