Impacts of Ethical Leadership and Decision Making on Organizational Performance
Centria University of Applied Sciences Date May 2019 Author Mek Bahadur Thapa Degree program International Business Management Name of thesis IMPACTS OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP AND DECISION MAKING ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE Instructor Eija Torkinlampi Pages 45 2 Supervisor Katarina Broman This thesis brings up a bit of ethical leadership and decision making in an organization. The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the relationship between ethical leadership and organizational performance. The study was conducted in Meat processing industry in Pietarsaari in 2018. To study the relationship between ethical leadership and organizational performance, a hypothesis was written that stated, "Ethical Leadership has positive influence on organizational performance." To check this hypothesis a quantitative survey was conducted with the help of pen and paper questionnaire survey. After carefully analyzing all the data it was concluded that the correlation between ethical leadership and organizational performance appeared to be moderate as well as positive. Numerically, the correlation coefficient between ethical leadership and organizational performance r 0,298 signifies that two variables were moderately associated. Similarly, the value of R square is 0,347, this signifies that 34,7 percent variation on dependent variable is determined by independent variable and p value is 0,039 where null hypothesis is rejected when the p value is less than 0,05, therefore the claim is accepted. Based on the above mentioned results, it is concluded that ethical leadership and organizational performance are positively associated to each other.