Leader’s Moral Competence and Employees’ Outcomes: Examining the Role of Person-Job Fit, Person-Organization Fit and Psychological Empowerment

Abstract

Moral competence of the leader is important because of the moral questions raised by the
advances in management sciences, the business environment, and technology. The present research
observes the association of leaders’ moral competence with employees’ task performance, psychological well-being, and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) along with the moderating role of
person-job fit and person-organization fit.Data was collected from telecom sector of Pakistan through
questionnaire-based survey. In the survey, managers appraised their moral competence and revealed
their subordinates’ task performance, psychological well-being, and organizational citizenship behaviors. Moreover, they were also requested to reveal their followers’ psychological empowerment,
person-job fit, and person-organization fit.