Author ORCID Identifier
Watts - https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7629-0188
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-9-2024
Publication Title
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Volume
17
Issue
2
First Page
233
Last Page
251
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2024.7
Abstract
Ethical leaders are those who exemplify moral behavior personally, as well as those who facilitate follower ethical behavior. Although recent attention has been given to the ethical leadership construct, there remains a lack of innovation regarding the assessment and development of ethical leaders in organizations. To address these issues, a pilot study was conducted to examine the convergent validity of an ethical leadership assessment center, as well as the efficacy of using assessment center feedback to foster ethical leadership. Assessees completed a battery of pre tests, a virtual business simulation with a novel exercise, and a set of post tests. Half of the assessees were randomly assigned to a feedback condition, whereas the other half did not receive feedback until after the post tests were completed. Due to low statistical power, quantitative results were inconclusive. Nevertheless, qualitative insights were gained that point to implications for validating assessment center methodologies when assessing and developing ethical leadership.
Recommended Citation
d'Amato, Alexis; Murugavel, Vignesh; Medeiros, Kelsey; and Watts, Logan L., "An ethical leadership assessment center pilot: Assessing and developing moral person and moral manager dimensions" (2024). Management Faculty Publications. 34.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/managementfacpub/34
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Comments
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