Abstract

This paper examines how ethical Leadership influences organizational performance in the banking sector of Kurdistan, and how corporate social responsibility (C.S.R.) mediates this relationship. This study collected survey data from public and private banks in Kurdistan and analyzed the effects of ethical Leadership on C.S.R. and organizational performance. This examination found that ethical Leadership promotes C.S.R., which in turn improves organizational performance. It also found that C.S.R. partially mediates the link between ethical Leadership and organizational performance, meaning that ethical Leadership has both direct and indirect effects on organizational performance through C.S.R. This paper contributes to the literature on ethical Leadership, C.S.R. and organizational performance by providing empirical evidence from a context that has not been widely studied before.