Ethical leadership and employee mental health: Comparing private and public sector employees

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dc.citation.issue1
dc.citation.volume47
dc.contributor.authorHaar J
dc.contributor.authorMcGhee P
dc.contributor.authorGrant P
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-07T02:16:39Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-25T06:52:05Z
dc.date.available2023
dc.date.available2024-03-07T02:16:39Z
dc.date.available2024-07-25T06:52:05Z
dc.date.issued2023-10-19
dc.description.abstractEthical leadership research mainly focuses on job outcomes while largely ignoring the potential influence on employee mental health. We seek to rectify this by examining the links between ethical leadership and work-life balance, anxiety, and depression. In addition, we include the role of organisational trust due to the important links between ethical leadership and trust. With two samples from the public sector and private sector, and using structural equation modelling, we find consistent effects across both samples. Ethical leadership is positively related to all outcomes, but organisational trust mediates the influence on work-life balance (fully in public sector, and partially in private sector), and fully mediates the influence towards anxiety and depression (both samples). In addition, we find that work-life balance also partially mediates the influence of organisational trust on anxiety and depression. This highlights the importance of organisational trust and work-life balance for ethical leaders to better alleviate mental health issues in the workplace.
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dc.format.pagination81-100
dc.identifier.citationHaar J, McGhee P, Grant P. (2023). Ethical leadership and employee mental health: Comparing private and public sector employees. New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations. 47. 1. (pp. 81-100).
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn0110-0637
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/71064
dc.publisherER Publishing Ltd
dc.relation.isPartOfNew Zealand Journal of Employment Relations
dc.titleEthical leadership and employee mental health: Comparing private and public sector employees
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id485029
pubs.organisational-groupMassey Business School
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