Asia Pacific University Library catalogue

A project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation for the degree of B.A. (Hons) in International Business Management (UC3F1911IBM).

The research focused mainly on the impact on ethical leadership behaviour, and on developing a hypothesis concerning the relationship between actions by an ethical leader and employee behaviour in multicultural organisations. This qualitative, focused theory research explored different forms of leading behaviours and other non-leading variables that have led to multicultural company workplace behaviour. This experience has given significant insight into 7 female and 10 male employees in different departments at varying levels of leadership in these organizations. This research found unique leadership behaviour that encourages employee behaviour, and this can be traced to ethical leadership theory.

Role model-employee relationship theory or RMER was developed from analysis of the data. There are three constructs to RMER: the ethical leader, in which three distinct leadership behaviours of mentoring, supporting, and role modelling appear to promote employee behaviours in multicultural organisation, growing into leadership, From the analysis of data, the role model-employee relationship theory or RMER was developed. There are three RMER structures: an ethical leader, in which three distinct mentoring, encouragement and role modelling leadership behaviour appears to encourage employee conduct and improve leadership within multicultural organizations, which explains the phenomenon observed in this study where staff with role models want to become role models as soon as they become leaders, and where their employee characteristics promote the actions of employees in multicultural organizations where the psychological control, self-esteem and voice characteristics of their staff were all important to promote employee behaviours in a multicultural organization.