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Ethical Leadership and Subordinates’ Occupational Well-Being: A Multi-level Examination in China

verfasst von: Yanping Li, Jia Xu, Yidong Tu, Xinxin Lu

Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research | Ausgabe 3/2014

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Prior research and managerial practices have often over-emphasized employees’ performance and ignored their occupational well-being. However, a series of employee suicide scandals in China have drawn people’s attention to employees’ occupational well-being and heightened the importance of how ethical leadership can enhance such well-being. Based on social exchange theory, this study examined the main effect of ethical leadership on subordinates’ occupational well-being in China, as well as the underlying mechanisms and contextual factors between them. Our sample comprised 302 employee questionnaires and 34 questionnaires completed by supervisors about their group. Using a multi-level approach, we implemented hierarchical linear modeling to examine the hypotheses. The results revealed that ethical leadership positively influenced the subordinates’ occupational well-being. This effect was partially mediated by distributive justice and interpersonal justice. Moreover, group level collectivism moderated the influence of ethical leadership on employees’ perception of distributive justice, interpersonal justice and their occupational well-being.

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Titel: Ethical Leadership and Subordinates’ Occupational Well-Being: A Multi-level Examination in China
verfasst von: Yanping Li
Jia Xu
Yidong Tu
Xinxin Lu
Publikationsdatum: 01.05.2014
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 3/2014
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-013-0321-z

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