article · International Journal of Leadership in Education
This study examined how socially responsible leadership influences employee work passion, focusing on the mediating role of psychological safety. Using a self-administered questionnaire, data were gathered from a sample of 214 permanent faculty members and administrative staff across public universities in Uganda. Statistical analysis demonstrated a clear positive association between socially responsible leadership, psychological safety, and work passion. Furthermore, psychological safety was shown to partially mediate the relationship between leadership behaviour and work passion. The evidence indicates that ethical behaviour from leaders strongly shapes whether employees feel psychologically safe, which in turn elevates their passion for their roles. These findings highlight the importance of socially responsible conduct, indicating that university supervisors and managers need to pay close attention to workplace behaviours to cultivate a secure and motivating institutional environment.
Employee engagement and morale are critical to the effective functioning of public universities. This research demonstrates that leadership ethics are not merely abstract values, but practical drivers of staff well-being. By showing that ethical leadership fosters psychological safety and subsequently elevates work passion, the findings offer institutional decision-makers an evidence-based rationale to improve supervisory conduct and create more supportive working environments.
The abstract does not indicate a commercialisation pathway or direct technology transfer application. The findings provide early-stage organisational insights that could inform human resource management strategies or leadership training programmes within higher education institutions and public-sector organisations, but they remain at the level of academic research rather than a marketable tool.
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The major purpose of this study was to find out the impact of Socially Responsible Leadership on employee's work passion with mediating role of psychological safety among a sample of 214 permanent faculty members and administrative staff of Public Universities in Uganda. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed among the participants for data collection. Data analysis was done by using SPSS software program, version 23.0. Pearson correlation coefficient and Mediation analysis by using 'PROCESS' were applied to find out the association between Socially Responsible Leadership, psychological safety and employee's work passion as well as the mediating effect of psychological safety between Socially Responsible Leadership and employee's work passion. The study clearly signified the positive link of Socially Responsible Leadership with psychological safety and work passion. Moreover, the mediation analysis showed that psychological safety partially mediated this link. These findings incite the importance of Socially Responsible Leadership in the organizations by exhibiting that employee's feeling about psychologically safety which makes them more passionate about work. This study guides the leaders, managers and supervisors that need to pay more attention to behavior at the workplace. Moreover, this study indicates that psychological safety of the employees is strongly affected by the ethical behavior of leader which in return increases the work passion of the employees.
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DOI: 10.1080/13603124.2024.2312976
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