The effect of ethical leadership on subjective wellbeing, given the moderator job satisfaction (a case study of private
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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The effect of ethical leadership on subjective wellbeing, given the moderator job satisfaction (a case study of private hospitals in Mashhad) Azar Kaffashpoor1*
and Samaneh Sadeghian2
Abstract Background: The emerging ethical leadership, a unique approach in leadership viewpoint, has provided the ground for constructing and advancing individual and managerial efficiency by highlighting ethics in organizations. The present study aims to investigate the influence of Ethical Leadership on Subjective Wellbeing, Given the Moderator Job Satisfaction in Private Hospitals in Mashhad. Methods: This descriptive-correlational research design stud was conducted in 2015–2016 to inspect the possible effect of ethical leadership on subjective wellbeing and job satisfaction, as dependent and mediator variables, among the Iranian private hospitals’ nurses in Mashhad. Simple random sampling method was used to select the sample of 166 nurses out of the population of 730 nurses, in total. The valid and reliable adapted version of the questionnaire designed by Yang (2014) was used to collect the data, and structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the data set. Results: The results showed that there is a positive significant correlation between ethical leadership and job satisfaction. More specifically, the findings indicated that Ethical leadership affected the subjective wellbeing of nurses through job satisfaction both directly and indirectly. Conclusions: The findings illustrated that focus on ethics and ethically-oriented leaders in hospitals, enriched by job satisfaction can lead to the nurses’ subjective wellbeing by providing them a positive climate. Keywords: Ethical leadership, Job satisfaction, Organizational performance, Subjective wellbeing (SWB)
Background The issue of organizational health, fulfilled through the law or ethics, is a vital consideration in any organization to survive and long-term success. Thus, ethics and morality must be taken into account as key sources of ethical guidelines for the leaders and personnel in organizations. Besides, very recently, advancing in issues such as * Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Management Department, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
Altruism, honesty, empowerment, fairness and justice (e.g., [1, 2]) has been of much interest to the researchers because of current scandals, which accordingly led to the investigation of ethical leadership concept in the early twentieth century [3]. Consistent with the social learning theory, personnel acquire the way of communicating with others through imitating and monitoring organizations’ leaders’ [4]. However, the number of studies concentrating on the practical application of this theory, specifically about ethical leadership, is so scarce [5]. From a social learning
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