en Designing and Testing a Model of the Relationship of Ethical Leadership to Organizational Citizenship and Counterproductive Work Behaviors: Mediating Role of Organizational Trust تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">This study aimed to investigate the relationship between <span style="color:#0d0d0d">promotion-focused and prevention-focused </span>ethical leadership to organizational citizenship and <span style="color:#0d0d0d">counterproductive work behaviors with the </span>mediating<span style="color:#0d0d0d"> role of</span> the <span style="color:#0d0d0d">organizational trust</span>. For this purpose, 180 stratified randomly selected employees participated in the study. Participants<span style="color:#0d0d0d"> completed</span> <span style="color:#0d0d0d">promotion-focused and Prevention-focused </span>ethical leadership (Bush et al., 2020), organizational trust (<span style="color:#0d0d0d">Yoo & kanawattanachai</span>, 2002), organizational citizenship behavior (<span style="color:#0d0d0d">Organ & <span style="background:white">Kanofsky</span></span>, 1989) <span style="color:#0d0d0d">counterproductive work behavior (Bennett & Robinson, 2002) questionnaires</span>.<span style="color:#0d0d0d"> Structural equation modeling (SEM) through AMOS-23 was used to assess the proposed model&#39;s fit indices and path coefficient. The bootstrap procedure by Preacher and Hayes (2008) was used for testing the mediation effect.</span> Fit indices indicated a very good fit of the model with the data. Path coefficients showed that the <span style="color:#0d0d0d">promotion-focused Ethical Leadership </span>(0.54) positivity and <span style="color:#0d0d0d">prevention-focused Ethical Leadership </span>(-0.31) <span style="color:#0d0d0d">negativity has an effect on organizational trust and organizational trust has an effect on organizational citizenship behavior </span>(0.51) <span style="background:white"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">and </span></span><span style="color:#0d0d0d">counterproductive work behavior </span>(-0.47). <span style="color:#0d0d0d">Also, the results showed that the promotion-focused Ethical Leadership had a positive indirect effect on citizenship behavior through organizational trust and Prevention-focused Ethical Leadership had a positive indirect effect on counterproductive work behavior through organizational trust. We explored how these different types of ethical leadership may indirectly, through felt trust, impact citizenship behavior and counterproductive work behavior.</span> Given the importance of ethical decision-making <span style="color:#0d0d0d">in organizations and the calls for increased ethical leadership, our findings have important implications for theory and practice.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div> <div dir="rtl" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">This study aimed to investigate the relationship between <span style="color:#0d0d0d">promotion-focused and prevention-focused </span>ethical leadership to organizational citizenship and <span style="color:#0d0d0d">counterproductive work behaviors with the </span>mediating<span style="color:#0d0d0d"> role of</span> the <span style="color:#0d0d0d">organizational trust</span>. For this purpose, 180 stratified randomly selected employees participated in the study. Participants<span style="color:#0d0d0d"> completed</span> <span style="color:#0d0d0d">promotion-focused and Prevention-focused </span>ethical leadership (Bush et al., 2020), organizational trust (<span style="color:#0d0d0d">Yoo & kanawattanachai</span>, 2002), organizational citizenship behavior (<span style="color:#0d0d0d">Organ & <span style="background:white">Kanofsky</span></span>, 1989) <span style="color:#0d0d0d">counterproductive work behavior (Bennett & Robinson, 2002) questionnaires</span>.<span style="color:#0d0d0d"> Structural equation modeling (SEM) through AMOS-23 was used to assess the proposed model&#39;s fit indices and path coefficient. The bootstrap procedure by Preacher and Hayes (2008) was used for testing the mediation effect.</span> Fit indices indicated a very good fit of the model with the data. Path coefficients showed that the <span style="color:#0d0d0d">promotion-focused Ethical Leadership </span>(0.54) positivity and <span style="color:#0d0d0d">prevention-focused Ethical Leadership </span>(-0.31) <span style="color:#0d0d0d">negativity has an effect on organizational trust and organizational trust has an effect on organizational citizenship behavior </span>(0.51) <span style="background:white"><span style="color:#0d0d0d">and </span></span><span style="color:#0d0d0d">counterproductive work behavior </span>(-0.47). <span style="color:#0d0d0d">Also, the results showed that the promotion-focused Ethical Leadership had a positive indirect effect on citizenship behavior through organizational trust and Prevention-focused Ethical Leadership had a positive indirect effect on counterproductive work behavior through organizational trust. We explored how these different types of ethical leadership may indirectly, through felt trust, impact citizenship behavior and counterproductive work behavior.</span> Given the importance of ethical decision-making <span style="color:#0d0d0d">in organizations and the calls for increased ethical leadership, our findings have important implications for theory and practice.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp;</div> <div dir="rtl" style="text-align: justify;"></div> the promotion-focused ethical Leadership, Prevention-focused Ethical Leadership, organizational trust, organizational citizenship behavior, the counterproductive work behavior. the promotion-focused ethical Leadership, Prevention-focused Ethical Leadership, organizational trust, organizational citizenship behavior, the counterproductive work behavior. 103 133 http://ijpb.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-58-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Seyed Esmaeil Hashemi Seyed Esmaeil Hashemi esmaeil@scu.ac.ir 10031947532846001720 10031947532846001720 Yes Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran Razieh Abedini Razieh Abedini 10031947532846001721 10031947532846001721 No Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran Fariba Pahlavani Fariba Pahlavani 10031947532846001722 10031947532846001722 No Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran