Ethical leadership, employee well-being, and helping: the moderating role of human resource management

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.