Suomalaisten johtajien itsearvioinnit eettisestä johtamistyylistään ja niiden yhteydet eettiseen organisaatiokulttuuriin

Abstract

Finnish managers’ self evaluations of their ethical leadership styles and connections to ethical organisational culture The present study analyses managers’ evaluations of their own ethical leadership styles, and the association of these evaluations with the ethicality of their organisation’s culture. The results were based on a questionnaire study with 902 respondents throughout Finland. Sixty-nine point seven percent of respondents were male, ranging from 26 to 69 years old, with an average age of 46. Respondents worked in various managerial levels and business lines, in both large and small organisations. The results showed that managers evaluated both the culture of their organisations and their own leadership styles as quite ethical. Upper managers evaluated their organisations’ ethical culture and their own leadership styles more positively. Managers in finance and insurance evaluated their organisations’ ethical culture more positively, while managers in industry, energy and the building trade and in public administration evaluated their organisations’ ethical culture more negatively. Men considered their organisations to be more ethical than did women, whereas women viewed their own leadership styles as more ethical than those of men. Managers who appraised their own leadership styles as ethical also evaluated the ethical culture of their organisations more positively.