ETHICAL LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEE MORAL VOICE: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY AND FELT OBLIGATION FOR CONSTRUCTIVE CHANGE

Abstract

This research examines the mediation role of psychological safety and felt obligation for constructive change towards ethical leadership and moral voice. A web-based survey is used in deploying and delivering questionnaires to 183 employees who work in Jakarta. Partial Least Square (PLS) was used to analyze the data. The result shows that psychological safety (PS) and felt obligation for constructive change (FOCC) is partially mediated the relationship between ethical leadership (EL) and moral voice (MV). Seeing this result, This study suggest that by having ethical leaders, organizations could facilitate the employee to feel freedom and comfort in delivering voices, and also can make employees will be more involved and feel responsible in their job in order to achieve the desired goal of the organizations.