Table 2.

Reliability and validity analysis.

Variables	Constructs	Item	α	AVE	CR
		loading
Ethical leadership	EL2	0.738***	0.752	0.569	0.841
	EL3	0.773***
	EL5	0.794***
	EL6	0.710***
Knowledge-Hiding behavior	KHB1	0.833***	0.766	0.584	0.848
	KHB3	0.804***
	KHB5	0.714***
	KHB7	0.713***
Meaningful work	MW1	0.813***	0.883	0.629	0.910
	MW2	0.794***
	MW3	0.780***
	MW4	0.798***
	MW5	0.803***
	MW6	0.769***

CA ≥ 0.7; CR ≥ 0.7; AVE ≥ 0.5;

^***Significant threshold at p < 0.001.