Staff profile

Ziya is an Assistant Professor in Leadership and Organizational Behavior at Durham University Business School. He earned his Ph.D. from Durham University in 2024 and holds a Master’s degree from Pennsylvania State University, obtained in 2015. Ziya previously worked as a Research Associate and as a Teaching Fellow at Durham University Business School.

His research primarily explores various facets of leadership, with a keen interest in behavioral integrity, the dynamics of leader-follower relationships, identity, and authenticity. Ziya's current projects investigate how leaders' self-concepts (leader identity) influence their consistency in words and actions (behavioral integrity), examining the impact of this alignment on both leaders' and followers' work outcomes. His studies extend to character development, ethical leadership, authentic leadership, and transgressions in leader-follower relations. Ziya has published in prestigious journals, including The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Managerial Psychology.

Mini Biography

Ziya Ete is an Assistant Professor in Leadership and OB at Durham University Business School. His primary research focuses on leadership, leader-follower relationship, behavioural integrity, leader identity, and authenticity.

• Behavioural Integrity
• Identity
• Authenticity
• Ethical Leadership

Chapter in book

• Sosik, J. J., Chun, J. U., & Ete, Z. (2020). Character and Leadership. In B. Carducci, C. Nave, J. Mio, & R. Riggio (Eds.), The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118970843.ch348

Journal Article

• Ete, Z., Epitropaki, O., Zhou, Q., & Graham, L. (2022). Leader and Organizational Behavioral Integrity and Follower Behavioral Outcomes: The Role of Identification Processes. Journal of Business Ethics, 176(4), 741-760. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04728-6
• Epitropaki, O., Radulovic, A., Ete, Z., Thomas, G., & Martin, R. (2020). Leader-follower transgressions, relationship repair strategies and outcomes: A state-of-the-science review and a way forward. The Leadership Quarterly, 31(1), Article 101376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101376
• Ete, Z., Sosik, J., Cheong, M., Chun, J., Zhu, W., Arenas, F., & Scherer, J. (2020). Leader honesty/humility and subordinate organizational citizenship behavior: a case of too-much-of-a-good-thing?. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 35(5), 391-404. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmp-10-2019-0557
• Sosik, J. J., Chun, J. U., Ete, Z., Arenas, F. J., & Scherer, J. A. (2019). Self-control Puts Character into Action: Examining How Leader Character Strengths and Ethical Leadership Relate to Leader Outcomes. Journal of Business Ethics, 160(3), 765-781. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3908-0