Ethical Leadership and Employee Mental Health: Comparing Private and Public Sector Employees

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aut.relation.issue1en_NZ
aut.relation.journalNew Zealand Journal of Employment Relationsen_NZ
aut.relation.volume47en_NZ
aut.researcherMcGhee, Peter
dc.contributor.authorHaar, Jen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorMcGhee, Pen_NZ
dc.contributor.authorGrant, Pen_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-20T04:17:43Z
dc.date.available2022-05-20T04:17:43Z
dc.date.copyright2022-05-18en_NZ
dc.date.issued2022-05-18en_NZ
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 the public sector, and partially in the 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.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationNew Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, 47(1)
dc.identifier.issn0110-0637en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/15148
dc.languageEnglishen_NZ
dc.publisherER Publishing Ltden_NZ
dc.relation.urihttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/nzjer/forthcoming/view/indexen_NZ
dc.rightsThe NZJER is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal which publishes research and commentaries that aim to contribute to an in-depth understanding of employment relations.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subjectEthical leadershipen_NZ
dc.subjectOrganisational trusten_NZ
dc.subjectWork-life balance;en_NZ
dc.subjectMental healthen_NZ
dc.subjectPublic sectoren_NZ
dc.subjectPrivate sectoren_NZ
dc.titleEthical Leadership and Employee Mental Health: Comparing Private and Public Sector Employeesen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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pubs.organisational-data/AUT/Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
pubs.organisational-data/AUT/Faculty of Business, Economics and Law/NZ Work Research Institute
pubs.organisational-data/AUT/Faculty of Business, Economics and Law/School of Business
pubs.organisational-data/AUT/Faculty of Business, Economics and Law/School of Business/Management Department
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pubs.organisational-data/AUT/PBRF/PBRF Business Economics and Law
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pubs.organisational-data/AUT/PBRF/PBRF Business Economics and Law/Management Department PBRF 2018
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