The Effect of Ethical Leadership on the Workplace Incivility of Employees

Abstract

Abstract: The bottom line mentality that pursues profits only while neglectingother equally important matters in the organization is the focus of attention in the theoretical and practical circles, whilefewer empirical studies can be found to explore how to reduce the impact of bottom line mentality onworkplace incivility from the perspective of leadership style. From the perspective of social cognitive theory, this paper constructs a moderated mediation model of ethical leadership to reduce workplace incivility by restrainingemployees' bottom-line mentality and discusses the mediating role of bottom-line mentality between ethical leadership and workplace incivility and the moderating effect of employees' harmonious passion. Through the analysis of the matching data of 93 leaders and 316 employees at two time frames, it is found thatethical leadership can help to reduce employees' bottom-line mentality, thereby weakening employees' workplace incivility. The employees' harmonious passion can negatively moderate the effect of ethical leadership onemployees' bottom-line mentality and the indirect impact of ethical leadership on employees'workplace incivility through the bottom-line mentality.

Key words: ethical leadership, bottom-line mentality, harmonious passion, workplace incivility

CLC Number:

F272.92

CAO Yuan-kun, YU Jiang, LV Bei. The Effect of Ethical Leadership on the Workplace Incivility of Employees[J]. Contemporary Finance & Economics, 2022, 0(10): 90-101.

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