THE INFLUENCE OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP THROUGH DECISION MAKING AND REINFORCEMENT TOWARDS EMPLOYEE OUTCOMES

Today, in the early days of industrial revolution, ethical leadership has become an important organization strategy and aim for achieving the organizational objective and success. The purpose of this research is to explore into the influence of ethical leadership through decision making and reinforcement practice by leader on employees’ outcomes such as organizational commitment and moral behavior. A cross sectional technique was employed to collect the primary data from 139 employees from the corporate telecommunication sector in Peninsular Malaysia who experienced the implementation and practice of ethical leadership. This study adopts the partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) for the purpose of data analysis. The outcomes display that decision making acts as an important predictor to moral behavior and organizational commitment. Additionally, reinforcement acts as an important predictor for moral behavior and yet, acts as an important predictor to organizational commitment.