Background: There is a few researches related with inspecting mechanisms that ethical leadership with using them lead to positive employees' functional results. Meanwhile the employee identification and their ethical beliefs are among the variables that can be used a moderator role related with ethical leadership and many functional results. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to investigate the role of identification and ethical beliefs of employees on functional results of ethical leadership.

Method: This study, based on research method was descriptive. Statistical population of this research determined 245 employees of pharmaceutical company of Tabriz which are revealed amount 181 as the statistical sample size with using the sample size formula. Collecting data with using Five questionnaires which there validity with using content validity method and there reliability checked by Cronbach's alpha coefficient have been done. Hypothesizes testing have been concluded with using partial least squares approach on path- structural models.

Results: the results showed that the identification with two dimensions of organizational identification and relational identification, has mediated and Mediator role on influencing the ethical leadership on employee performance.

Conclusion: The results show that for having effective ethical leadership, the role of other effective variables on relationship between ethical leadership and performance must be considered.