En línea con la influencia del género en el contexto laboral, el propósito del presente estudio fue examinar cómo la humildad expresada por el líder y el género interactúan en la predicción del empoderamiento psicológico de los subordinados. Las hipótesis fueron contrastadas a través de 253 encuestas aplicadas a maestrantes en administración de empresas en Ecuador. Se utilizó el de análisis de multigrupos (MGA) con la técnica de re-muestreo bootstrapping para analizar las relaciones de los grupos combinados por género en la relación líder-subordinado. Luego, se evaluó el efecto moderador del género sobre las variables estudiadas. Los resultados indicaron que existe una relación significativamente positiva entre la humildad expresada por el líder y el empoderamiento psicológico, y que el género tiene un rol moderador en esta relación. El impacto de la humildad del líder sobre el empoderamiento psicológico, fue más fuerte cuando líder era masculino y el subordinado también era masculino. Se debe remarcar que no se evidenció ningún efecto cuando el líder y el subordinado eran mujeres. Esta investigación contribuyó a estudios sobre género en el contexto laboral y la humildad en el liderazgo. Este es el primer estudio que presenta evidencia empírica de los efectos moderadores del género en la relación entre humildad del líder y empoderamiento psicológico. / In line with the influence of gender in the work context, the purpose of this study was to examine how the expressed leader humility and gender interact in predicting the psychological empowerment of subordinates. The hypotheses were contrasted using 253 surveys applied to MBA students in Ecuador. Multi-group analysis (MGA) was used with bootstrapping technique to analyze the relationships between groups combined by gender in the dyads leader-subordinate. Then, the moderating effect of the gender on the variables studied was evaluated. The results indicated that there was a significantly positive relationship between expressed leader humility and psychological empowerment, and that gender has a moderating effect role in this relationship. The impact of the leader's humility on psychological empowerment was the strongest in dyads male leader-male subordinate. It should be noted that no effect was evidenced when the leader and the subordinate were women. This research contributed to studies on gender in the context work and humility in leadership. This is the first study to provide empirical evidence of the moderating effects of gender on the relationship between the expressed leader humility and psychological empowerment.

Recent cases of unethical behavior in organizations indicate the need to carry out empirical research to determine the existence of a relationship between ethics and leadership, demanded by society and prescribed by various academic theories. For this reason, through the conduction of non-experimental, cross-sectional, quantitative research, it is sought to make a process of falsification of the theoretical proposals that establish a relationship between the ethical position and leadership styles in the context of a municipal mayoralty. In the development of the research, the responses of 219 leaders were satisfactorily received, answering questions from two psychometric instruments of wide recognition and academic validity, the Ethics Position Questionnaire (Forsyth, 1980) and the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (Bass & Avolio, 1993). They were carried out both through an exploratory data analysis and a confirmatory factor analysis, and four models of structural equations that tested the existence of a relation between the ethical position and the styles of leadership; it was also possible to identify the influence exerted by the different ethical positions in each one of the styles of leadership in a local public administration. These findings facilitate the identification of ethical leadership models in local public organizations, and contribute towards the empirical demonstration of the current discussion on the relationship between ethics and leadership in organizations.