Date of Conferral

2022

Degree

Ph.D.

School

Psychology

Advisor

John Schmidt

Abstract

Ethical scandals have continued to generate disturbances in the corporate world and have encouraged ethics studies in organizations. Research has shown there is a relationship between ethical leadership and employee accountability in a variety of organizational settings, including healthcare. However, in medical laboratories that relationship has not been explored. A quantitative study was conducted to examine if medical laboratory employee perceptions of manager ethical leadership was associated with their own accountability behavior. A total of 69 participants responded online to three instruments to measure the study variables: ethical leadership was assessed by the Ethical Leadership at Work Questionnaire, employee accountability behavior was assessed by the Leadership Accountability Scale, and total time an employee was assigned to a given manager was identified by a demographic questionnaire. The relationship between the variables was analyzed using regression analysis. The results showed that medical laboratory manager ethical leadership had a significant predictive relationship with laboratory employee accountability behaviors (F (1, 67) = 34.03, p < .001), and that the total time assigned to a medical laboratory manager does not moderate the relationship between medical laboratory manager ethical leadership and laboratory employee accountability behaviors (B = -0.00, t = -0.41, p = .681). The findings of this study show that ethical leadership in medical laboratory organizations was a strong predictor for increased accountability behavior in medical laboratory employees. This study may be used for positive social change to raise awareness of the need for ethic studies in medical laboratory organizations and practices where ethics studies are currently nonexistent.

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