caa a22 4500 605484996 CHVBK 20210128100439.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-013-1972-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-013-1972-z Transformational Leaders' In-Group versus Out-Group Orientation: Testing the Link Between Leaders' Organizational Identification, their Willingness to Engage in Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior, and Follower-Perceived Transformational Leadership [Elektronische Daten] [David Effelsberg, Marc Solga] To further the debate on the ethical dimension of transformational leadership (TFL) from a virtue ethics perspective, this study focused on leaders' in-group orientation as well as their in-group versus out-group orientation in situations of conflict between organizational interests and broader ethical values. More precisely, the current study captured leaders' organizational identification (OI) as well as their willingness to engage in unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) and tested the relations between these attitudes and follower-perceived TFL behavior. In total, the leadership behaviors of 112 middle- and top-level managers were evaluated by 900 direct-reports. Results showed leaders' organizational identification to be positively related to TFL. However, we found no relation between leaders' willingness to engage in unethical pro-organizational behavior and TFL. Implications regarding the ethical dimension of TFL are discussed. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Transformational leadership nationallicence Ethics nationallicence Organizational identification nationallicence Unethical pro-organizational behavior nationallicence In-group versus out-group orientation nationallicence Effelsberg David Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150 (GAFO 04/603), 44780, Bochum, Germany aut Solga Marc Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150 (GAFO 04/603), 44780, Bochum, Germany aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 126/4(2015-02-01), 581-590 0167-4544 126:4<581 2015 126 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1972-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1972-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Effelsberg David Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150 (GAFO 04/603), 44780, Bochum, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Solga Marc Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150 (GAFO 04/603), 44780, Bochum, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 126/4(2015-02-01), 581-590 0167-4544 126:4<581 2015 126 10551