Business Ethics and Employees’ Outcomes: An Empirical Study of Cellular Operators of Pakistan

Abstract

This study examines the impact of ethical leadership and organizational fairness on employees' affective commitment and employees' job performance. Data were collected from the cellular operators working in Pakistan namely Mobilink, Ufone, Telenor, Zong and Warid through questionnaire from 518 employees working in regional and head offices of cellular operators at Islamabad, Lahore, Faisalabad and Multan. The study reported the results of preliminary, correlation and regression analysis by using SPSS. These results indicated that the ethical leadership and organizational fairness has direct and indirect impact through trust in organization on employees' affective commitment and employees' job performance. This showed a partial mediation of trust between business ethics and employees' out comes.