上司の倫理的リーダーシップと仕事の意味深さ

個人の視点からの実証と考察

抄録

In this study, I argue that ethics management contributes to making employees’ work more meaningful. Reviewing previous studies, I focus on the role of supervisors in Japanese organizations to propose several hypotheses about the effect of employees’ ethical orientation and their supervisors’ ethical leadership on employees’ meaningful work compared with their job satisfaction. To verify the hypotheses, I conducted two empirical questionnaire surveys and obtained data comprising(1)2,060 valid responses from Japanese employees via an Internet survey, and(2)796 valid responses from the employees of a Japanese manufacturing organization through an intranet survey. The results of multiple regression analysis demonstrate that although supervisors’ ethical leadership has a positive effect both on employees’ meaningful work and job satisfaction, employees’ ethical orientation has a stronger effect than supervisors’ ethical leadership on employees’ meaningful work. I also discuss the role of supervisors in the context of ethics management.