Ethical Leadership & Emotional Exhaustion: Take a Look at Personality Traits

Emotional fatigue in organizations where physical safety is at risk, is a threat to standard and uniform operations. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of ethical leadership on emotional fatigue by considering personality variables.

The research method is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of method is descriptive-correlation. Population of the study includes personnel of the Fire and Safety Services Organization of the municipalities of Hamadan province that were 400 people, that 240 people were selected as the sample size by relative stratification method based on Krejcie and Morgan. The data collection tool was a questionnaire. In order to analyze the findings, the path analysis model was used and for the analysis of the mediating variable, the Sobel test was used.

The results of path analysis model showed that moral leadership and personality traits have a direct and indirect negative effect on emotional fatigue. Ethical emotion and tolerance of ambiguity also play the role of mediator variable in the relationship between other variables.

By promoting concepts such as moral emotions, conscientiousness and the power of tolerating ambiguity, it is possible to create stronger moral environments that to be a prerequisite and supporter of moral behavior, and strengthen and maintain ethics in the organization and thereby reduced emotional fatigue.