ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to deconstruct how the role of employees is portrayed in the ethical leadership literature, which is traditionally focused on leaders' virtuous behavior. It reviews encompassing ethical leadership and employees' views. The chapter explains the concept of organizational citizenship behavior as a construction of the virtuous behavior of a worker as a good and useful member of a work organization. It highlights the fundamental role of employees in constructing and implementing ethical leadership even though the mainstream of the research of ethical leadership has been based on leader-centeredness. Leaders of social services are regularly faced with a variety of ethical questions. Ethical leadership traditionally focuses on ethical leaders and their actions and behavior. The role of ethics has always been important in social services. The chapter concludes that employees have unnoticed and underestimated power in enabling but also of impeding ethical leadership.
