Malaysian Journal of Business and Economics Vol. 4, No. 1, 2017, 46 – 64 ISSN 2289-6856 (Print), 2289-8018 (Online) The Impact of Organizational Justice on the Ethical Leadership under the Moderating Influence of Perceived Support: A Conceptual Study Hussam Al Halbusi a *, Shehnaz Tehseen b & T. Ramayah c a PhD Candidate, University of Malaya, Faculty of Business and Accountancy b Lecturer, Sunway University Business School, Sunway University, Malaysia c School of Management, UniversitiSains Malaysia, Moden 11800 Penang Minden Abstract While a number of the researchers have conducted several studies on ethical leadership, however, not much is known about the role of organizational fairness in relationship to the ethical leadership behavior. This paper presented the proposed model in order to find out the perception of justice towards ethical leadership by using the two moderators namely perceived organizational support and perceived supervisor support. Thus, the proposition was made with respect to the impact of organizational justice on ethical leadership. It is also proposed that the perceived support such as organizational support and supervisor support could moderate the relationship between organizational justice and ethical leadership. The proposed model has been developed after reviewing the relevant existing studies and two underpinning theories namely social exchange theory and organizational support theory have been used to support the proposed model as well. Keywords: organizational justice, organizational fairness, ethical leadership, perceived support, perceived organizational support, perceived supervisor support 1 Introduction Recent ethical scandals in business (Colvin, 2003; Mehta, 2003) have raised important questions about the role of leadership in shaping the ethical conduct. The leadership acts as a role model at the workplace and most employees are too much concerned that how he/she behaves for ethical guidance (Kohlberg, 1969; Trevino, 1986). Therefore, over the past few years, there have been several corporate scandals including WorldCom, Enron, AIG, Nortel, and the Lehman Brothers, which have garnered a lot of negative publicity. Also, in 2008, the subprime mortgage crisis highlighted the corporate greed and excessiveness and led to issues related to ethical leadership in business (Bedi, Alpaslan, & Green, 2016). Many national surveys were carried out in the US and the results revealed that very few of the people had a confidence in the integrity and the ethics of the national leaders of business, government and other similar institutes (Jones, 2011). Hence, one of the essential and important methods used by any organisation for *Corresponding author E-mail address: Hussam.mba@gmail.com