Ethical Leadership and Moral Imagination: A Moderated Mediation Model of Proximity and Organizational Commitment

摘要： Moral imagination is the ability that can help individuals overcome constraints of organizational mental models to develop fresh frameworks and to make ethical decisions on the basis of those frameworks. This study aimed to explore the moderated mediator role of organizational commitment between ethical leadership and moral imagination. Data of 281 employees were collected,and results showed that when the victim of a certain ethical issue is their own company,organizational commitment fully mediated the effect of ethical leadership on moral imagination; however,when the victim is other company,ethical leadership and organizational commitment hadn't any effect on moral imagination. Those results showed the process that ethical leadership uses to influence moral imagination is not a social learning process but a social exchange process.
Moral imagination is the ability that can help individuals overcome constraints of organizational mental models to develop fresh frameworks and to make ethical decisions on the basis of those frameworks. This study aimed to explore the moderated mediator role of organizational commitment between ethical leadership and moral imagination. Data of 281 employees were collected,and results showed that when the victim of a certain ethical issue is their own company,organizational commitment fully mediated the effect of ethical leadership on moral imagination; however,when the victim is other company,ethical leadership and organizational commitment hadn't any effect on moral imagination. Those results showed the process that ethical leadership uses to influence moral imagination is not a social learning process but a social exchange process.