Recently business ethics has become a hot question in different organizations from service, manufacture, agriculture and other sectors. Ethical leadership was proposed as a suitable solution for the development of ethics culture in organizations. Some of the previous studies foundthatmanagers‘ perceptions of their leadership style ethics have significant effects on employees‘ attitudes to it.How-ever, the studies on this fieldhave been quite rare;the results are inconclusive. Thus, theaim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the approaches of managers and employeesabout the ethical leadership style. The study involved 30 managers and 242 subordinates working in different Lithuanian organizations. A perceived ethical leadership style was assessed with Brown(2005b) ques-tionnaire. The study confirmed thatthere is alinear relationship between analyzed variables: the more managers perceive their leadership style as ethical, the more employeesperceive their managers as ethical, too.

Background. Academic literature has shown that working conditions created by ethical leaders might have positive as well as negative consequences for the employees. Research has revealed that it might contribute to employees’ workaholism and occupational burnout, but this relationship is still controversial. Purpose. The aim of the this study was to investigate the significance of a perceived ethical leadership style for the relationship between employees’ workaholism and occupational burnout. Method. The study involved 302 (41 men and 261 women) employees working in different Lithuanian organizations. A perceived ethical leadership style was assessed with the help of Brown, Trevino, & Harrison’s (2005) questionnaire. The 10-item Dutch Work Addiction Scale developed by Schaufeli, Taris, & Bakker (2009) was used for the measurement of workaholism. Occupational burnout was measured using Copenhagen Burnout Inventory by Kristensen, Borritz, Villadsen, & Christensen (2005). Results. The results revealed that workaholism, personal and work-related burnout of employees who consider their leaders as more ethical is lower than of those who consider their leaders to be less ethical. Relationship between client-related burnout and excessive work of the employees who consider their leaders as more ethical is weaker than of those, who consider their leaders to be less ethical. Conclusions. Overall, the findings support that employee attitudes towards their leader are important for the occupational burnout and proneness to workaholism. Therefore, an ethical leadership style must be considered when addressing physical and psychological well-being of employees.