Ethical Leadership and Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Enugu State

This paper examined ethical leadership and performance of manufacturing firms in Enugu state. The objectives of the study include to: assess the effect of ethical leadership on average cost of operation of manufacturing firms in Enugu State and ascertain the effect of ethical leadership on sales turnover of manufacturing firms in Enugu State. The study adopted the descriptive survey research method with a population of 786 while the sample size of 265 was determined using the Taro Yamani’s formula. The hypotheses were tested using the z-test statistical tool. The findings included that ethical leadership has a significant positive effect on average cost of operation of manufacturing firms in Enugu State (X value = 36.32, p value 0.0000 < 0.05), ethical leadership has a significant positive effect on sales turnover of manufacturing firms in Enugu State (X value = 32.52, p value 0.0000 < 0.05). The study concluded that ethical leadership had significant positive effect on the performance of manufacturing firms in Enugu state and it was recommended that management of manufacturing firms should consider the cost of operation through ethical leadership by training and retraining of staff members and management of manufacturing firms should equally increase their sales turnover through advertisement and regular promo as an ethic.