The Academic Members Perceptions on Ethical Leadership Practices and their Role in Organizational Commitment: Empirical Evidence from Charmo University

Hussein Ahmad Mustafa¹ and Hiwa Rafiq Namiq²¹College of Administration and Economics, Salahaddin University-Erbil, Iraq.
²Department of Business Administration, Charmo University, Iraq.
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
DOI: 10.23918/ICABEP2021p35

Abstract

This research’s primary purpose is to examine the academic members’ perceptions on ethical leadership practices and their role in organizational commitment, based on empirical data obtained from academic members at Charmo University. The researchers employed the quantitative method, and used a survey questionnaire as a data collection instrument, which comprises six constructs (ethical leadership practices: fairness, people-orientation, power-sharing, emotional commitment, normative commitment, and continuous commitment, and the survey administered to academic members in departments of Charmo University. The empirical data were analyzed using SPSS, and Amos 25, mainly to test the hypotheses. The results supported the research hypotheses that ethical leadership practices, such as fairness, people-orientation, and power-sharing, are related to organizational commitment. Thus, ethical leadership practices positively significantly influence organizational commitment. Results also showed that people-orientation and power-sharing are the factors that motivate the influence of ethical leadership practices on organizational commitment. This research contributes to the literature by representing that ethical leadership practices stand as the base for improving emotional, normative, and continuous commitment; the enhanced organizational commitment resulting from leaders’ ethical behavior contributes to improving the academic members’ pledge to their institution.

Keywords: Ethical Leadership Practices, Organizational Commitment, and Charmo University.

ICABEP2021
International Conference on Accounting, Business, Economics and Politics

3rd joint conference organized by the collaboration of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics,
Tishk International University, College of Administration and Economics, Salahaddin University-Erbil, and
University of Szczecin, Poland.

3rd joint conference organized by the collaboration of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Tishk International University, College of Administration and Economics, Salahaddin University-Erbil, and University of Szczecin, Poland.

3rd joint conference organized by the collaboration of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics,
Tishk International University, College of Administration and Economics, Salahaddin University-Erbil, and
University of Szczecin, Poland.