• Arunkumar Yadava

The worldwide financial institutions keep on facing the financial misconduct that stands unforgivable and poses threats to the economic instability, reputation, and intensified regulatory scrutiny. In this backdrop, ethical leadership has increasingly come into focus as a mechanism for fortifying the integrity, accountability, and transparency of an organization. This paper attempts to see how ethical leadership can prevent financial misconduct through the comparative study of selected global financial institutions. In doing so, and referring to various empirical research works and accepted theoretical frameworks, particularly agency theory, stakeholder theory, ethical climate theory, and institutional theory, it wants to comprehend ways in which ethical leadership may impact designing corporate governance structures, enforcing the whistleblowing mechanisms, and fostering an ethical organizational culture. The findings hint at the ways in which ethical leadership can impede fraud, secure compliance, and champion ethical conduct on a sustainable basis. The study ends with a number of policy implications that should aid in the framework building for ethical leadership within the financial sector.

Ethical leadership, financial misconduct, corporate governance, whistleblowing, fraud prevention

"THE ROLE OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP IN PREVENTING FINANCIAL MISCONDUCT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 9, page no.g334-g345, September-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2409636.pdf

"THE ROLE OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP IN PREVENTING FINANCIAL MISCONDUCT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 9, page no. ppg334-g345, September-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2409636.pdf