Work Engagement as an Outcome of Ethical Leadership and Team Trust

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dc.contributor.advisorWitt, L. Alan
dc.contributor.committeeMemberAtwater, Leanne E.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCampion, James E.
dc.creatorOlson, Mike
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-04T00:07:16Z
dc.date.available2020-06-04T00:07:16Z
dc.date.createdMay 2020
dc.date.issued2020-05
dc.date.submittedMay 2020
dc.date.updated2020-06-04T00:07:16Z
dc.description.abstractEmployee engagement is a current focus among organizations (Kappel, 2018). I examined the relationships between ethical leadership, team trust, and work engagement, using conservation of resources theory and social exchange theory as a basis. I proposed that ethical leadership has a positive relationship with work engagement, as ethical leaders provide followers with resources in the form of favorable treatment and clear ethical guidelines. I suggest that this relationship is partially mediated by team trust, which is a result of the social exchange relationship between ethical leader and follower. Team trust provides resources for workers due to the psychological benefit of perceived security in one’s team, which is then invested in the form of work engagement. Additionally, I argued that conscientiousness is a moderator, and that those high in conscientiousness will have a stronger relationship between the study variables, due to their likely higher valuation of ethics and trust in their team.
dc.description.departmentPsychology, Department of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10657/6663
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).
dc.subjectEthical
dc.subjectLeadership
dc.subjectEngagement
dc.subjectTrust
dc.titleWork Engagement as an Outcome of Ethical Leadership and Team Trust
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentPsychology, Department of
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychology, Industrial and Organizational
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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