Top management's ethical leadership and its relation to organizational commitment (A case study on Ethiopian Public Universities located in Amhara Region)

The purpose of this study was to assess Top Management's ethical leadership and its relation to Employees organizational commitment in the public universities of Ethiopia located in Amhara Region. To attain this, Explanatory survey research design with quantitative method was employed. Using Stratified random sampling and Convenience sampling method, Data was collected from employees of three public universities. 425 employees were participated in the study by filling the ethical leadership and organizational commitment questionnaire. Among the data analysis tools Correlation, regression and independent sample t-test were used to analyze the data. In the sampled public universities the employee's rated their top management's ethical leadership below average that may be considered as behaving more in an unethical way. The result indicated that Top Managements ethical leadership has a statistically significant effect on employee's organizational commitment. Employees who perceive their top management as ethical were more commented to their organization than those who perceive their top management's ethical leadership as unethical. Hence, the researchers suggest that a center of excellence in each public university that advocates leading the organization and its employees ethically to be established.