The Impact of Ethical Leadership on the Environmental Responsibility of Small and Medium Enterprises: An Empirical Study

Abstract

This study aims to address ethical leadership and know the extent of its practice by small and medium enterprises in the state of Djelfa and measure the level of environmental responsibility in these institutions and try to find out the level of the impact of moral leadership on environmental responsibility, and in order to answer the main problem and test the hypotheses has been developed A questionnaire based on the previous studies that touched on the two variables. A random sample of 60 workers was selected from the two high-altitude tannery establishments in the Djelfa and the Sweetly Foundation in the Djelfa. The data was analyzed through SPSS. The results of the study showed a positive impact of ethical leadership in its three dimensions (availability of ethical behaviour, ethical behaviour practices, promote ethical behaviour) on environmental responsibility for small and medium-sized enterprises in Djelfa.

Keywords

• leadership
• business ethics
• ethical leadership
• environmental responsibility