Moderating role of sustainable leadership in the relationship between decent work and employee well-being in public universities

Moderating role of sustainable leadership in the relationship between decent work and employee well-being in public universities | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article Moderating role of sustainable leadership in the relationship between decent work and employee well-being in public universities Desmond Oben Neji, Friday Ogbu Edeh, Toong Hai Sam, Kevin Chukwuoyims Egwu, and 6 more This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8368999/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract The well-being of employees at the workplace is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, administrators, and policymakers across the globe. One of the reasons why employee well-being has dominated business research is because employees represent the vehicle through which enterprise goals are attained. It is based on this relevance that this study investigates the moderating role of sustainable leadership in the relationship between decent work and employee well-being in Nigerian public universities. The study employed a positivist approach to research, which necessitated a deductive study and a structured questionnaire to collect data from the respondents. The research setting covers public universities in Nigeria from which a population of 7,962 was drawn from eight (8) public universities across the various regions of the country. Taro Yamane's formula was used to obtain a sample size of 381.The systematic sampling technique was employed to ensure that enough departments were covered per university and to minimize bias in the distribution. The analyses of the study were aided by SPSS 25.0 and SmartPLS 4.1. The study revealed that decent work has a significant relationship with employee well-being. The study also found that sustainable leadership does not play any significant role in the relationship between decent work and employee well-being. This research is novel and relevant because no study has investigated the relationship between decent work and employee well-being with sustainable leadership as a moderating variable in the Nigerian public universities. Decent work employee well-being academic staff sustainable leadership employee Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. 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