Ethical Leadership, Employee Well-Being, and Helping
The Moderating Role of Human Resource Management
Abstract
In this multi-source study, we examined the link between ethical leadership, human resource management (HRM), employee well-being, and helping. Based on the Conservation of Resources Theory, we proposed a mediated moderation model linking ethical leadership to helping, which includes well-being as an intermediary variable and HRM as a contextual moderator. Results from 221 leader-employee dyads revealed that the relationship between ethical leadership and helping occurs through well-being only when HRM was low, but not when HRM was high. Job-related well-being fully mediated the relationship of the interaction between ethical leadership with HRM and employee helping.
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