Promoting Organizational Citizenship Behavior among Employees - The Role of Leadership Practices
Despite of numerous studies that investigate the relationship between leadership and The Organizational Citizenship Behavior, very few of these studies have examined the influences of leadership practices – as defined by Kouzes and Posner (1987) - on organizational citizenship behaviors. Moreover,...
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Canadian Center of Science and Education
2013
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/6952/2/Promoting%20Organizational%20Citizenship%20Behavior%20among%20Employees.pdf http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/6952/ http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v8n6p47 |
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| Summary: | Despite of numerous studies that investigate the relationship between leadership and The Organizational
Citizenship Behavior, very few of these studies have examined the influences of leadership practices – as defined
by Kouzes and Posner (1987) - on organizational citizenship behaviors. Moreover, most of these studies have
been conducted in western context (developed counties). In this regard, current study has three main purposes:
first, investigate the influences of leadership practices on organizational citizenship behaviors. Second, conduct
this investigation in Arabic context (developing country). The third purpose of this study is to investigate the
mediating effect of organizational commitment on the relationship between leadership practices and
organizational citizenship behaviors.
Using the response of 108 non managerial banks employees, the result indicated that leadership practices have a
significant positive impact in the organizational commitment and OCB. The results of the study found that
organizational commitment does partially mediate the relationship between leadership practices and
Organizational Citizenship Behavior.
Keywords: leadership practices, organizational citizenship behavior, organizational commitment, Yemen |
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