Leaders’ Moral Competence and Employee Outcomes: The Effects of Psychological Empowerment and Person–Supervisor Fit

Tae-Yeol Kim and Minsoo Kim ()

Journal of Business Ethics, 2013, vol. 112, issue 1, 155-166

Abstract: This study examined how leaders’ moral competence is linked to employees’ task performance and organizational citizenship behaviors. Based on a sample of 102 employee–supervisor pairs from seven organizations in South Korea, the results of this study revealed that leaders’ moral competence was positively associated with employees’ task performance and organizational citizenship behaviors toward leaders (OCBS). As expected, employees’ psychological empowerment partially mediated the relationship between leaders’ moral competence and employees’ task performance and OCBS. Furthermore, person–supervisor fit (PS fit) moderated the relationship between leaders’ moral competence and employees’ psychological empowerment such that the relationships became stronger for individuals higher rather than lower in PS fit. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013

Keywords: Moral competence; Psychological empowerment; Organizational citizenship behaviors; Task performance; Person–supervisor fit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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