Purpose

This study aims to extend the understanding of the role of authentic leadership in encouraging subordinates to become internal whistleblowers. The current study aims to seek whether authentic leadership can encourage internal whistleblowing (IW) through employee controlled motivation for IW and moral courage.

Design/methodology/approach

The samples of this study were 221 employees working at 26 government organizations in one of the provinces located on Sumatera Island, Indonesia. Based on the cross-sectional survey method, this study used partial least square-structural equation modeling analysis with SmartPLS 3 software to test the hypotheses.

Findings

The result revealed that employee controlled motivation for whistleblowing and moral courage significantly mediates the effect of authentic leadership toward IW. This result also indicates that the two mediating variables in this study fully mediate the effect of authentic leadership toward IW.

Practical implications

This study highlights the critical role played by leaders in encouraging subordinates to IW in the workplace. The role of an authentic leader will have positively affected enhancing IW by employees, which has significant implications for the organization that particularly in manage organization wrongdoing in terms of eliminating or preventing unethical practice.

Originality/value

Theoretically, the current study extends the understanding of the mechanism underlying the relationship between authentic leadership and IW. This study proposes employee controlled motivation for IW and moral courage as the new mediator variables to explain how and why authentic leadership may encourage IW. Empirically, the current study chooses the Indonesian Government as a context that rarely conducts in the prior study.

中文翻译：

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真正的领导者和内部举报者：测试双重调解机制

目的

这项研究旨在扩展对真正领导力在鼓励下属成为内部举报人中的作用的理解。当前的研究旨在探讨真正的领导者是否可以通过员工控制的内向动力和道德勇气来鼓励内部举报（IW）。

设计/方法/方法

这项研究的样本是在印度尼西亚苏门答腊岛一个省的26个政府组织中工作的221名员工。基于横断面调查方法，本研究使用SmartPLS 3软件对偏最小二乘结构方程进行了建模分析，以检验假设。

发现

结果表明，员工控制的举报动机和道德勇气显着调解了真正的领导对IW的影响。该结果还表明，本研究中的两个中介变量完全介导了对IW的真正领导作用。

实际影响

这项研究突显了领导者在鼓励工作场所IW下属中发挥的关键作用。一位真正的领导者的角色将对提高员工的IW产生积极影响，这对于组织尤其是在消除或防止不道德行为方面管理组织的不当行为具有重大意义。

创意/价值

从理论上讲，当前的研究扩展了对真正领导力与IW之间关系的潜在机制的理解。这项研究提出了由员工控制的内向动力和道德勇气作为新的中介变量，以解释真实的领导方式如何以及为什么会鼓励内向动力。从经验上讲，本研究选择印尼政府作为在先前研究中很少进行的背景。