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Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues Open access
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Received: 2021-10-18  |  Accepted: 2022-01-17  |  Published: 2022-03-30

Title

Developing a new model of ethical leadership


Abstract

Previous studies in Middle East countries missed to find out the influence of ethical leadership on counterproductive workplace behaviors in higher education. Therefore, this study was carried out to close the gap in this regard, as it is meant to be used in the education sector, one of Saudi Arabia's most significant service sectors. The human relations theory of management concept was utilized to build a theoretical model of ethical leadership and a management paradigm based on human relationships. Personal attributes, administrative qualities, human relationships, teamwork, and relationships with managers and colleagues were revealed as key elements in the hypotheses of the research model. The data gathering method was a questionnaire survey based on the human relations theory of management. SPSS and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM-PLS) were used to examine the data. The findings revealed a positive effect between personal attributes and teamwork factors, which all have positive effects on administrative qualities and human relationships. Administrative qualities and human relationships had a positive impact on relationships with managers and colleagues too. Therefore, this finding contributes to the validation of the extended human relations theory of management by demonstrating that the model predicts university employees improving relationships with managers and colleagues through personal attributes, administrative qualities, human relationships, and teamwork.


Keywords

ethical leadership, human relations theory of management, structural equation modeling, Middle East countries, higher education


JEL classifications

O35 , O15


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/944


DOI


Pages

198-211


Funding

The author would like to thank Deanship of Scientific Research at Majmaah University for supporting this work under Project Number No. R-2022-11

This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Zahrani, Aida Ahmed
Majmaah University, Al Majma'ah, Saudi Arabia https://www.mu.edu.sa
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

9


Number

3


Issue date

March 2022


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Cited

Google Scholar

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