Dedicated but exhausted? The role of ethical leadership for employee wellbeing in UK student unions

dc.contributor.authorRivers, Josh
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Neill
dc.contributor.authorJeske, Debora
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-27T12:34:00Z
dc.date.available2018-11-27T12:34:00Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractBuilding on previous leadership and well-being research, the aims of the present study were to investigate the relationship between ethical leadership and employee well-being (work engagement and emotional exhaustion) within student unions. We also considered the role of trust as a potential mediator in this relationship. Survey data was collected from 137 full-time employees working at student unions in the UK. Path model analysis revealed that trust in one’s manager partially mediated the effects of ethical leadership and work engagement and emotional exhaustion. While trust increased work engagement and reduced emotional exhaustion, ethical leadership also had a significant indirect effect on both outcomes. An interaction between employee dedication and ratings for manager’s ethical leadership suggested that more dedicated employees are less emotionally exhausted if their managers scored highly on ethical leadership. However, when the employees felt less dedicated to the job, managers’ ethical leadership behaviours did not reduce employees’ emotional exhaustion. The study examined the effect of ethical leadership in student unions, adding to the very sparse research on the experience of full-time employees working for student unions.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationRivers, J., Thompson, N. and Jeske, D. (2018) ‘Dedicated but exhausted? The role of ethical leadership for employee wellbeing in UK student unions’, Journal of Human Resource Management, XXI (2), pp. 16-27.en
dc.identifier.endpage27en
dc.identifier.issn2453-7683
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Human Resource Managementen
dc.identifier.startpage16en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7153
dc.identifier.volume21en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherComenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Managementen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.jhrm.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/HRM-02-2018-03-clanok.pdf
dc.rights© 2018 the authors.en
dc.subjectNon-profiten
dc.subjectEthical leadershipen
dc.subjectTrusten
dc.subjectWorken
dc.subjectEngagementen
dc.subjectDedicationen
dc.titleDedicated but exhausted? The role of ethical leadership for employee wellbeing in UK student unionsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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