Nowadays, the purpose of any organizations is to survive and maintain its entity by improving their performance. Organizations must always increase their performance to be highly competitive in markets. Nowadays, ethical leadership and leadership effectiveness are two of the significant motivations for improving an organizational performance. Therefore, understanding the relationships between ethical leadership, leadership effectiveness and organizational performance is vital. For that reason, this article presents some significant literature review of ethical leadership, leadership effectiveness and organizational performance. Towards the end, the author discussed the relationship between those mentioned three variables.
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