Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/289396 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Cogent Business & Management [ISSN:] 2331-1975 [Volume:] 9 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 2153437 [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 1-21
Publisher: 
Taylor & Francis, Abingdon
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the Ethical Leadership Scale across five field studies. The Portuguese ELS (P-ELS) was compared with subscales of a reduced version of the Ethical Leadership at Work questionnaire to check convergent validity (CFI = .95; TLI = .95; RMSEA = .06) and with subscales of organizational justice scale to confirm discriminant validity (all r < .18; p < .05). To assess criterion validity, the extent of the P-ELS's ability to predict organizational ethical climate was tested (all Ø coefficients p < .01, except for profit subscale). To check nomological validity, the relationship between ethical leadership and job-related affective well-being mediated by leader-member exchange quality was analyzed (B indirect effect = 0.21; 95% CI = 0.02, 0.41). Results support P-ELS's unidimensional structure and suggest that it has good construct validity and reliability, therefore, being a useful tool to assess leaders' ethical behaviors in the workplace.
Subjects: 
construct validity
Ethical Leadership Scale
Portuguese version
reliability
scale validation
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