Does Ethical Leadership Influence The Organizational Outcomes? Mediating Role of Emotional Labor and Moderating Role of Followers’ Personality Traits
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Ethical leadership is become fundamental part for the developing businesses. Due to need of caring and ethical leaders the study consider the ethical leadership aspects by considering follower’s personality traits and inadvertent effects of emotional labor on follower’s job performance and follower’s perceived stress. This implies that when leaders have high and low level of ethical leadership they show an increase in followers’ management of emotions. Study also examined that how ethical leadership influences the organizational outcomes by considering the mediating role of emotional labor and moderating role of personality traits. Questionnaire survey was used to collect the data by different banks of Gujranwala city. 200 responses were collected within one month. Result divulged that ethical leadership has negative effect on follower’s perceived stress and positive impact on follower’ job performance. After applying different statistical tools results indicated that in high ethical leadership employees not show their regulated emotions then followers stress level will increase and their performance of the job will decrease. Findings show that in moderate level ethical leadership employees showed their genuine emotions which increases their job performance and decreases their stress. Results revealed that employees management of emotions (surface acting and deep acting ) increases the employees job performance and decreases the followers perceived stress when followers personality traits are moderated. In the last of article research limitations, implications and directions for further research also included
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