A Modern Systematic Review of The Strategic Hrm Through The Prism of Reimagining Ethical Leadership and Employee Performance
Keywords:
Ethical Leadership, Employee Performance, Strategic HRM, Organization Behavior, Sustainable PerformanceAbstract
In times of complexity, digital transformation, and increased stakeholder demands, ethical leadership has become an imperative force behind the achievement of sustainable performance in organizations. The work re-examines the connection between ethical leadership and employee performance based on the latest systematic literature review (SLR) encompassing the aspects of Human Resource Management (HRM) paradigms. This study was a systematic review in which the PRISMA framework was used to conduct a review of the evidence held by the most prominent global databases, with the aim of reviewing how ethical leadership influences the outcome of employees working in various industries. The results suggest that ethical leadership has a uniformly positive effect on employee performance, which is mainly mediated by employee engagement, psychological safety, trust, and organizational citizenship behavior. This paper, in contrast to the previous non-dynamic interpretations, makes ethical leadership a dynamic and situational capacity that can keep up with digital workplaces and globalized organizational cultures. The contribution it makes is that it redefines ethical leadership in contemporary HRM systems and recommends longitudinal, cross-cultural, and technology-integrated research in order to more accurately reflect the long-term and contextual implications of the same.
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