Staff profile

Ziya Ete is an Assistant Professor in Leadership/Organizational Behaviour in Management Department at Durham University Business School. Ziya is also a member of the Centre for Leadership and Followership. He holds an MBA from the Pennsylvania State University (USA), and a BA in Business Administration from Istanbul University (Turkey). He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Durham University Business School. Since he joined Durham University Business School in 2017, he has worked as a Research Associate, supported collaborative research projects, and as a Teaching Fellow in Leadership, taught leadership and management courses.

Ziya’s primary research focuses on leadership. He is interested in leader-follower relationship, behavioural integrity, leader identity, and social identity. His current research focuses on how leadership identity shapes leaders' alignment of words and deeds (i.e., behavioural integrity), and the role of this alignment in social exchange between leaders and followers (e.g., follower identification). His work also studies leadership and character development, ethical leadership, and leader-follower transgressions. Ziya has published articles in the key academic journals such as The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Managerial Psychology.

Mini Biography

Ziya Ete is an Assistant Professor in Leadership/Organizational Behaviour at Durham University Business School. His primary research focuses on leadership. He is interested in leader-follower relationship, behavioural integrity, leader identity, and social identity.

• Leader-Follower Relationship
• Behavioural Integrity
• Authenticity
• Social Identity

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