Exploring the impact of ethical leadership on job satisfaction and organizational commitment in public sector organizati
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Exploring the impact of ethical leadership on job satisfaction and organizational commitment in public sector organizations: the mediating role of psychological empowerment Miao Qing1 · Muhammad Asif1 · Abid Hussain1 · Arif Jameel1 Received: 31 October 2018 / Accepted: 26 March 2019 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019
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) Mathematics Subject Classification M50 · M5 · M12 · M10 · M1
* Muhammad Asif [email protected] Miao Qing [email protected] Abid Hussain [email protected] Arif Jameel [email protected] 1
School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Zijingang Campus, Hangzhou 310058, China
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1 Introduction In the past few decades, theorists have believed that ethics plays an important role in evolving good characters among individuals for the prosperity and thrive of both societies and its members. Generally, leaders are needed to establish moral standards for their followers to resolve such activities that are unfavorable to the welfare of society and certain organization (Aronson 2001). The morally responded uncertain business practices under current economic circumstances have resulted in a great need for ethical leadership and it has become a more expanding area to be inquired (Treviño et al. 2006). Comprehensively, ethical leadership is defined as ‘‘the demonstration of normatively appropriate conduct through personal actions and interpersonal relationships, and the promotion of such conduct to followers through two-way communication, reinforcement, and decision-making” (Brown et al. 2005). Additionally, it can also be observed from both empirical (Bass and Steidlmeier 1999) and philosophical aspects (Ciulla 2014). In this regard, Brown et al. (2005) established ethical leadership scale which contains notable characteristics of authentic (Avolio and Gardner 2005), charismatic (Conger and Kanungo 1998) and transformational leadership styles (Bass 1985). Most notably, the study of ethical leadership states that leader’s behavior is muc
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