From Leaders’ Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior To Subordinates’"Harmful" Unethical Behavior

Tanzania is one among the countries in the world which its economy is growing too fast, leading the attraction and receiving more foreign investors. This has enabled the formation of different organizations with people from different countries and civilizations. Due to this situation, there is an emergency and increase of unethical behaviors in different organization conducted in order to maintain and protect the interest of the organization even if it will cost and violate the social accepted norms. The primary inspiration of this survey study is to analyze the extent to which Leaders’unethical pro-organization behavior (UPB) is related to subordinates’unethical behavior (UB). This means how leaders’unethical behaviors which are meant to benefit the organizations, regardless of its effects in the community around have the influence in subordinates’ general behavior.Also, the study will explore the relationship between leaders’unethical pro-organizational behavior and subordinates, moral identity, and long term orientation of the culture. Specifically, the study will assess the mediating function of moral identity in the relationship between leaders’unethical pro-organizational behavior and subordinates’ unethical behavior. On the other hand, it will examine the moderating role of Long term orientation to leaders’unethical pro-organizational behavior and subordinates’unethical behavior.Drawing from Social learning theory, the study makes the hypothesis that, leader unethical pro-organization behavior will positively relate to subordinates unethical behavior. Also, it is speculated that, the relationship between leaders’unethical pro-organizational behavior to subordinate’s unethical behavior will be mediated by moral identity. Furthermore, people in short term orientation will do more unethical behaviors. Then, the short-term orientation of the culture will moderate the relationship between leaders’UPB and subordinates UB.The information was gathered from a sum of158subordinates and49Managers from private and public sectors in Tanzania. The hypothesis of this study was tested using the correlation and regression analysis. The outcomes of the study demonstrated that, there is positive relationship between leaders’UPB and subordinates UB. Also, indicated that moral identity will mediate the relationship between leader UPB and subordinates UB. Nevertheless, short-term orientation will moderate the relationship between leaders’UPB and subordinates UB and people in short term orientation will do more unethical behavior Therefore, due to that result, the survey concluded that leaders’ unethical pro-organizational behavior does exist in different organization in Tanzania and have substantive effects of the subordinates’ ethical behaviors. It was suggested that, more longitudinal empirical researches with large sample have to be conducted in order to ascertain to what extent does leader UPB affects the subordinates’ ethical behavior and whether leaders are mindful of these effects. It was also proposed that the empirical study have to be conducted to examine to what extent these behaviors (UPB) may jeopardize the organizational life in the future, and what measures should be put into consideration in order to settle this situation for good future of Tanzania.