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. 2021 Jul-Dec;14(2):82-92.
doi: 10.21500/20112084.5573.

Ethics Position and Leadership Style in a Mayor's Office

Fernando Alexander Garzón-Lasso  1 , Francisco López-Gallego  1 , Percy Marquina  2   3
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Ethics Position and Leadership Style in a Mayor's Office

Fernando Alexander Garzón-Lasso et al. Int J Psychol Res (Medellin). 2021 Jul-Dec.

Abstract
in English, Spanish

Introduction: Recent cases of unethical behavior in organizations indicate the need to carry out empirical research about it.

Objective: Determine the existence of a relationship between ethics and leadership, demanded by society and prescribed by various academic theories.Method: For this reason, through the conduction of non-experimental, cross-sectional, quantitative research, it is sought to make a process of falsification of the theoretical proposals in the context of a municipal mayoralty. In the development of the research, the responses of 219 leaders were satisfactorily received, answering questions from two psychometric instruments of wide recognition and academic validity, the Ethics Position Questionnaire and the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. They were carried out both through an exploratory data analysis and a confirmatory factor analysis, and a model of structural equations that tested the existence of a relation between the ethical position and the styles of leadership.

Results: It was also possible to identify the influence exerted by the different ethical positions in each one of the styles of leadership in a local public administration.

Conclusions: These findings facilitate the identification of ethical leadership models in local public organizations and contribute towards the empirical demonstration of the current discussion on the relationship between ethics and leadership in organizations.

Introducción: Aunque la sociedad y las principales teorías sobre liderazgo postulan de manera normativa una relación existente entre la ética y el ejercicio de liderazgo, recientes casos de comportamientos no éticos indican la necesidad latente sobre la realización de estudios que los profundicen.

Objetivo: Determinar si los principios y juicios morales tienen relación con el liderazgo en las organizaciones, y en específico en aquellas pertenecientes al sector público.

Método: A partir de un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales, se logró probar la existencia de una relación entre la posición ética, medida a partir del Ethical Position Questionnaire, y los estilos de liderazgo, medidos con la aplicación del Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire, en una administración pública de orden local y determinar el sentido de esa relación.

Resultados: Los resultados obtenidos proponen que aquellos que se orientan al reconocimiento de la existencia de principios morales universales prefieren el uso de comportamiento de liderazgo diferentes a aquellos que creen en que los comportamientos éticos se pueden relativizar según las circunstancias individuales o el contexto.

Conclusión: Los hallazgos permitirán avanzar en el estudio que permita dar respuesta al cómo liderar el cumplimiento de metas organizacionales a partir de la aplicación de principios éticos que procuren el bienestar de toda la sociedad.

Keywords: Ethic Leadership; Ethical Judgments; Ethics; Ethics Position; Full Range of Leadership; Leadership; Leadership Styles; Transformational Leadership.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interests: The authors have declared that there is no conflict of interest.

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