道德领导与追随者的道德行为：探究情感联系。

Zhang Yajun, Zhou Fangfang, Mao Jianghua

School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

School of Business Administration, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, China.

Front Psychol. 2018 Oct 4;9:1881. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01881. eCollection 2018.

The effectiveness of ethical leadership has been extensively investigated. However, compared to the outcomes of ethical leadership, we still lack enough knowledge about the mechanisms underlying ethical leadership and its outcomes. Drawing from social information processing theory, this paper explores an emotional explanation for the effectiveness of ethical leadership. Adopting a time-lagged research design with responses from 64 leaders and 289 followers, the present research found that ethical leadership invokes followers' other-praising emotions and eventually enhances their moral actions. Further, leader core self-evaluation contributes to the positive effects of ethical leadership on followers' other-praising moral emotions and subsequent moral actions. Theoretical and practical implementations of these observations were discussed.

道德领导的有效性已得到广泛研究。然而，与道德领导的结果相比，我们对道德领导及其结果背后的机制仍缺乏足够的了解。本文借鉴社会信息加工理论，探讨了道德领导有效性的情感解释。本研究采用时滞研究设计，收集了64位领导者和289位追随者的反馈，发现道德领导引发了追随者的赞扬他人的情感，并最终增强了他们的道德行为。此外，领导者的核心自我评价有助于道德领导对追随者赞扬他人的道德情感和随后的道德行为产生积极影响。本文还讨论了这些观察结果的理论和实际应用。