Problem Identification The given research article focuses on leader-member exchange relations (LMX) in terms of ethical leadership and empowering leadership. The core problem that authors aimed to address is associated with the multitude of scandals, economic downturns, and crisis, involving leaders of both private and public sectors. Hassan et al. refer to the fact that the mentioned factors caused the decrease of employees’ commitment to work (133). With this in mind, they review a set of the recent studies regarding ethical and empowering leadership impact on subordinates’ motivation, satisfaction, and loyalty. It is suggested that such leadership relates to the opportunity of enhancing the organizational behavior issues that, in their turn, are likely to facilitate change in the contemporary attitude towards the problem. In other words, the essence of the problem lays in the lack of appropriate leadership able to foster personnel’s effectiveness. Hypotheses Based on the previous research, the authors propose six hypotheses each of which is supported by the evidence. The first assumptions reflected by Hassan et al. can be identified as follows: ethical leadership has the positive connection with LMX (135). It is noted that trustworthiness, respect, and fairness are the qualities of a leader that encourage subordinates’ satisfaction. The second hypothesis supposes the same for empowering leadership. Focusing on the affective commitment that implies the emotional attachment to work, the authors of the article emphasize that the organizational commitment is likely to be facilitated through the open atmosphere and shared values. The third and the fourth hypotheses are related to the potential of LMX to intercede relations between ethical leadership and employees’ commitment and between empowering leadership and subordinates’ loyalty, respectively. According to the fifth and the sixth hypotheses, LMX may act as a mediator between employees’ views on leader effectiveness in terms of ethical and empowering leadership as such. Need for the Study The need for the given study is caused by the inability of the traditional leadership strategies to handle difficulties set by the economic downturns worldwide. However, it is possible to learn more from failures than from successes by improving on what was already done and adjusting it to the modern requirements. The authors of the article pinpoint that leaders are to be more effective to serve as behavioral examples for their subordinates as the latter tend to copy organizational attitudes of the former. More to the point, one may note the need to enhance esprit de corps that refers to morale and commitment of employees. The authors reckon that such aspects of leadership as ethics and empowerment present the great potential to address the mentioned challenge through articulating the mechanisms of their implementation and impact on employee efficiency. Methodology In order to either confirm or reject the mentioned hypotheses, the authors utilize the mixed method research, employing questionnaires, descriptive statistics, and equation modeling. The sample consists of 259 respondents, the graduates of MBA program, who answered questions related to their perception of a leader, including his or her interp