The Moderating Effect of Ethical Leadership on Relationship Between Organizational Politics and Employees’ Performance: Systematic Review

Abstract

The purpose of this review paper explores the adverse impacts of organizational politics on employee performance and examines how ethical leadership can moderate these effects. This review synthesizes environment that encourages organizational political conduct. This study makes a theoretical contribution to understanding the findings from various empirical studies and theoretical papers on organizational politics, employee performance, and ethical leadership. This Review aims to figure out the impact of organizational Politics and Employees Performance: Moderating role of Ethical leadership by reviewing existing literature of 15 academic papers. Findings of the review suggest that there is negative relationship between organizational politics and employee’s performance. Similarly Ethical Leadership Moderates the relationship between organizational politics and employees’ performance. This Leadership of environment can help development of employee’s performance in the organizations in reducing negative impacts of organizational policies on employees’ performance. In contrast, the leaders who are neglect to confront unethical behaviors and rewards were applied inconsistently may cultivate an environment that encourages organizational political conduct. This study makes a theoretical contribution to understanding the impact of organizational politics on employee performance with moderating effect of ethical leadership. Practically it highlights the need for organizations to prioritize ethical leadership to counteract the detrimental effects of organizational politics. Future studies should investigate the precise mechanisms through which ethical leadership mitigates the effects of organizational politics. Future researchers can do this study as longitudinal studies and that could provide deeper insights into how these dynamics evolve over time.