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Carlos Santiago-Torner
Departamento de Economía y Empresa. UVic – Universitat Central de Catalunya, Carrer de la Sagrada Família, 7, 08500, Vic, Barcelona.
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0852-1578
Vol. 32 No. 3 (2023), Articles, pages 1-29
https://doi.org/10.15304/rge.32.3.9092
Submitted: 2023-03-16| Published: 2023-12-01

Abstract

The Colombian electricity sector needs an ethical management style associated with a work environment that supports its principles. Furthermore, self-efficacy determines individual creative will and commitment does not always have an integrating function. For this reason, this research seeks to analyze the relationship between ethical leadership and a benevolent climate through the mediation of creative self-efficacy and the double moderation of the commitment to continuity. For this purpose, a conditional model is used. The sample is 448 employees. Ethical leadership builds a habitat of autonomy and trust that leads to self-perceptions of creative self-efficacy. Likewise, personality dimensions such as openness to experience, conscientiousness, and extraversion normalize the mediating function of creative self-efficacy regarding ethical leadership and a benevolent climate and includes all three variables. Finally, the commitment to continuity favors job dissatisfaction, emotional exhaustion, and personal inadequacy, which stops the dynamic behavior that creative self-efficacy needs, and at the same time interrupts the prosocial relationships that unite the ethical leader with a benevolent climate.