Exploring the impact of ethical leadership on job satisfaction and organizational commitment in public sector organizations: the mediating role of psychological empowerment

Miao Qing (), Muhammad Asif (), Abid Hussain () and Arif Jameel ()
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Miao Qing: Zhejiang University
Muhammad Asif: Zhejiang University
Abid Hussain: Zhejiang University
Arif Jameel: Zhejiang University

Review of Managerial Science, 2020, vol. 14, issue 6, No 8, 1405-1432

Abstract: Abstract This study aims to investigate the effect of ethical leadership on employee attitudes (affective commitment and job satisfaction) and to examine the role of psychological empowerment as a potential mediator of these relationships. In total, 467 employees in Chinese public sector completed surveys across three separate waves. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used to test hypotheses. The paper found a positive relationship between ethical leadership and both employee attitudes and further reveals that psychological empowerment fully mediates the relationship between ethical leadership and affective commitment while partially mediates the relationship between ethical leadership and job satisfaction. Testing of above relationships via a mediated approach is novel and contributes to the research on ethical leadership.

Keywords: Ethical leadership; Employees’ job satisfaction; Affective commitment; Psychological empowerment; Structural equation modeling (SEM); M50; M5; M12; M10; M1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11846-019-00340-9

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