Virtuous Leadership: Exploring the Effects of Leader Courage and Behavioral Integrity on Leader Performance and Image

Michael Palanski (), Kristin Cullen (), William Gentry () and Chelsea Nichols ()

Journal of Business Ethics, 2015, vol. 132, issue 2, 297-310

Abstract: We examined the relationship between leader behavioral integrity and leader behavioral courage using data from two studies. Results from Study 1, an online experiment, indicated that behavioral manifestations of leader behavioral integrity and situational adversity both have direct main effects on behavioral manifestations of leader courage. Results from Study 2, a multisource field study with practicing executives, indicated that leader behavioral courage fully mediates the effects of leader behavioral integrity on leader performance and leader executive image. Implications of these findings and future directions are discussed. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Courage; Behavioral integrity; Leadership; Job performance; Executive image; Virtues (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2317-2

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