Servant Leaders as Change Agents

Servant leadership (SL) produces high performance and employee engagement. Non-SL senior leaders lacking business ethics have caused negative outcomes. This study explored the lived experiences of senior leaders’ decision-making in SL organizations. Maslow’s theories, decision theory, spirituality, Cicero’s virtue theory of ethics; SL comprised the theoretical/conceptual foundation. Data collection used purposive sampling of 18 senior leader participants in SL organizations employing Giorgi’s descriptive psychological structures of experiences analysis method. Findings confirmed ethical decision-making in SL organizations. Recommendations included examining CEO ethical leadership and firm performance interrelations and promoting ethical decision-making at all levels. Conclusions supported teamwork as the one structure of experience. Positive social change implications are an ethical capitalism that occurs by building community and SL organizations.

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Effect of work environment on employee engagement: Mediating role of ethical decision-making

Problems and Perspectives in Management ◽

10.21511/ppm.19(3).2021.19 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 221-229

Author(s):

Mahfuz Judeh

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Work Environment ◽

Employee Engagement ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Ethical Decision ◽

Ethical Decision Making ◽

Stock Exchange ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Ethical Decisions

Organizations are increasingly being responsible for providing good and healthy work environment that can help in supporting employees performing their duties. Supportive work environment can increase the degree of employee engagement, which in turn, makes them more attached to their roles. The purpose of the current study is two-folded: to investigate the effect of work environment on engagement, and to test ethical decision making as a mediator between environment and engagement. Data were collected from a sample of 237 employees from transportation corporations listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (2019) in Jordan. Structural equation modeling was utilized to test the model. Results proposed that engagement was significantly related to work environment and ethical decision-making. Work environment has a greater effect on employee engagement than on ethical decision-making. Moreover, the effect of ethical decision-making on employee engagement was greater than the effect of work engagement on ethical decision-making. Furthermore, the study yielded support for the claim that ethical decision-making played a significant role in the relationship between work environment and employee engagement. Therefore, employees having good working conditions and making ethical decisions tend to get higher levels of employee engagement.

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Principals’ moral agency and ethical decision-making: Towards transformational ethics

International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership ◽

10.22230/ijepl.2015v10n5a572 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (5) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Sabre Lynn Cherkowski ◽

Keith D Walker ◽

Benjamin Kutsyuruba

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Transformational Leadership ◽

Moral Agency ◽

Ethical Decision ◽

Ethical Decision Making ◽

Best Interests ◽

Leadership Responsibility ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

The One ◽

The Cost

This descriptive study of the ethical decision-making among a group of Canadian principals provides a rich portrait of how and why principals engage their moral agency through their decision-making processes. Using a leadership responsibility framework linking moral agency and transformational leadership, the researchers found that: modeling moral agency is important for encouraging others to engage their own moral agency in the best interests of all children; despite efforts to engage in collaborative decision-making, principals are often faced with the reality that they are the one to absorb the cost of the decisions; and principals tend to engage less often in transformational aspects of leadership as part of the decision-making process. More research is needed to understand how school leaders can engage more often and more substantially in transformational leadership among their teachers and staff and how they build moral agency capacity in their schools.

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Pengaruh Flexible Work Arrangement Terhadap Ethical Decision Making : Peran Employee Engagement Sebagai Mediator

JURNAL DIVERSITA ◽

10.31289/diversita.v5i1.2327 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Dewi Fransiska Simanjuntak ◽

Martina Dwi Mustika ◽

Bertina Sjabadhyni

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Employee Engagement ◽

Ethical Decision ◽

Ethical Decision Making ◽

Flexible Work ◽

Flexible Work Arrangement ◽

Work Arrangement

Semakin banyaknya jumlah perempuan yang bekerja mengarahkan organisasi untuk melakukan perubahan yang besar dalam mengelola sumber daya manusia dan juga peraturan yang berlaku (Ugargol et al., 2016). Disertai dengan peningkatan penggunaan teknologi dalam organisasi juga menjadikan banyak organisasi yang menerapkan pengaturan kerja yang fleksibel. Berbagai penelitian menjelaskan dampak dari penerapan pengaturan kerja fleksibel yang menunjukkan hasil yang bertentangan dikarenakan minimnya pengawasan. Hal ini membuat hubungan antara penerapan fleksibilitas kerja dengan pengambilan keputusan secara etis menjadi topik yang penting untuk diteliti, terutama di Indonesia. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat hubungan antara pengaturan kerja fleksibel (Flexible Work Arrangement) dengan pengambilan keputusan secara etis (Ethical Decision Making) yang dimediasi oleh keterlibatan karyawan (Employee Engagement). Penelitian yang dilakukan kepada 301 orang partisipan menunjukkan bahwa pengaturan kerja fleksibel berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap pengambilan keputusan secara etis melalui keterlibatan karyawan. Sehingga penerapan pengaturan kerja fleksibel dapat menjadi anteseden untuk keterlibatan karyawan yang akan dapat meningkatkan pengambilan keputusan etis pada karyawan di dalam organisasi.Kata Kunci: Flexible work arrangement;Ethical Decision Making;Employee Engagement

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