Ethical Leadership
leadership demonstrating normatively appropriate conduct and promoting ethical behavior among followers through fairness and integrity
§1The Principia rendering
A copyright-clean measure of this construct, authored by Principia and free to use — the one we can show in full. This is an other-rated scale: the respondent rates my direct manager, not themselves.
Predicted psychometrics. These 12 items carry a design grade of A (avg design score 89/100) from the item-design model — an estimate pending calibration, not a measured reliability. Real responses (via deployment) sharpen it toward measured, which is what the licensing model collects.
§2The established instruments
What the field already uses — named and cited, not reproduced (item wording is copyrighted and withheld pending clearance).
- Ethical Leadership Scale (ELS) — Brown, Treviño & Harrison
§3The math on what we know
Synthesized priors from the live registry: pooled r, studies (k), total N, top study grade, and heterogeneity. Rows flagged for heterogeneity or single-study evidence are directional, not settled — read them as a central tendency.
What ethical leadership predicts
| Outcome | r | k | N | Grade | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leader Member Exchange LMX | +0.71 | 1 | 4,052 | B | single study |
| Trust In Leader | +0.66 | 1 | 4,105 | B | single study |
| Job Satisfaction | +0.50 | 1 | 4,578 | B | single study |
| Affective Commitment | +0.48 | 1 | 4,873 | B | single study |
| Organizational Commitment | +0.45 | 1 | 13,737 | A | single study |
| Counterproductive Work Behaviours | −0.40 | 2 | 12,696 | A | I²≈0.94 |
| Work Engagement | +0.39 | 1 | 1,335 | B | single study |
| Overall Job Performance | +0.31 | 1 | 7,175 | A | single study |
| Organizational Citizenship Behavior OCB | +0.29 | 1 | 5,049 | B | single study |
| Task Performance | +0.25 | 1 | 4,904 | B | single study |