How Organizational Justice Makes to Enable Employee Commitment and Voice Behavior in a Team Context: A Mediating Process of Ethical Leadership

Abstract

This study investigated the effect of organizational justice as an antecedent of ethical leadership, and tested the effect of ethical leadership on team members’ commitment for team and voice behavior. An empirical study was conducted on 1,057 individuals from 156 teams in 5 Korean companies. As expected, team leaders’ ethical leadership had a positive effect on team members’ commitment for team and voice behavior. In addition, distributive, informational, and interpersonal justice were identified as important antecedents of ethical leadership except for procedural justice. Based on these results, the study offers a profound discussion on practical implications of the effect of team leaders’ ethical leadership and organizational justice for Korean companies and team managers.