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This research was conducted to assess the relationship between the role of administrators in training programs and the motivation level of the trainees. The data were collected through a survey method conducted on employees at a government agency in East Malaysia. The outcomes of SmartPLS path model analysis show three important findings. First, administrators’ roles in training programs are significantly related to trainees’ motivation. Second, provision of support is significantly linked to the motivation of the trainees. Third, communication is significantly related to the motivation level of the trainees. Thus, the findings indicate that administrators’ roles, support, and communication act as significant determinants of trainees’ motivation in an organizational sample.

Today, in the early days of industrial revolution, ethical leadership has become an important organization strategy and aim for achieving the organizational objective and success. The purpose of this research is to explore into the influence of ethical leadership through decision making and reinforcement practice by leader on employees’ outcomes such as organizational commitment and moral behavior. A cross sectional technique was employed to collect the primary data from 139 employees from the corporate telecommunication sector in Peninsular Malaysia who experienced the implementation and practice of ethical leadership. This study adopts the partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) for the purpose of data analysis. The outcomes display that decision making acts as an important predictor to moral behavior and organizational commitment. Additionally, reinforcement acts as an important predictor for moral behavior and yet, acts as an important predictor to organizational commitment.