The Role of Gender and Leader Tenure in the Relationship between Spirituality and Ethical Leadership
Published: 2019
Author(s) Name: Himanshu Rai and Bidisha Banerjee |
Author(s) Affiliation: Professor of HRM at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow.
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Abstract
Most research on ethical leadership
examines the consequences
and not antecedents. We aim to
empirically examine spirituality as
an antecedent of ethical leadership
using from 108 leader-subordinate
dyads.Further, we use
Vedic Measure of Spirituality
(VMS) to examine this relationship.
Spirituality was self-rated by
the leaders while subordinates
rated their leader’s ethical leadership
behavior. All three dimensions
of VMS, namely Fortitude,
Introspective Reflection and Equanimity
significantly predicted ethical
leadership. Leaders with less
tenure showed the highest positive
impact of spirituality on ethical
leadership, followed by middle
tenure and high tenure. Female
subordinates judged their leaders
in a more stringent manner as
compared to their male counterparts.
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