The Impact of Ethical Leadership on Organisational Behaviour: A Conceptual Analysis

Studies suggest a strong interlink between ethics and leadership. However, the significant personality traits that mark as the constituents of ethical leadership is still a debate. Experts, critics and researchers often focus on the lack of adequacy on the existing literature of ethical leadership and its identity. Broadly viewing, ethical leadership comprises of enormous strengths and limitations with multiple dimensions and objectives like what amount of leadership is ethical, what key capacities ethical leaders must develop, what is important for an ethical leader; duty or the consequences, how would an ethical leadership decide during ethical dilemma and many others. Much of the ethical leadership is governed and guided by the virtue of beliefs, thoughts and decisions to protect the dignity and the rights of others. Today, leadership roles do not simply succumb to increase productivity and profits but also strive to maintain a high standard of morality and ethics and also what changes can ethical leadership bring in organisational behaviour? This paper studies and explores the identity of an ethical leadership and the roles they play in transforming organisational behaviour to improve organisation's effectiveness.