Further research is needed to assess the effects of ethical leadership in public sector organizations and how it can be managed and reduce the occurrence of misconducts in government organizations (Hassan et al., 2014), there is little empirical evidence in this context (Beeri et al., 2013; Huberts et al., 2007; Kolthoff et al., 2010). Moreover, in the future a comparative study is recommended to investigate the effects of ethical leadership on subordinates’ behavior in public and private sector counterparts. (Yasir & Mohamad 2015)
Lastly, followership plays a crucial role in the leadership process (Carsten and Uhl-Bien, 2012; Uhl-Bien et al., 2014). Thus, ethical followership will play an important role in ethical leadership process. Therefore, future research is needed to shed more light on the notion of ethical followership (Yasir & Mohamad 2015)