Motivating language as a mediator between servant leadership and employee outcomes

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 1234-1250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Gutierrez-Wirsching ◽  
Jacqueline Mayfield ◽  
Milton Mayfield ◽  
Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Servant Leaders ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Motivating Language

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose motivating language as a mediator to increase the positive effects of servant leadership on subordinates’ outcomes. The authors propose that motivating language acts as a mediator to transmit servant leadership traits and enhances the positive impact that servant leadership verbal behavior has on employees’ performance. Design/methodology/approach – By developing a conceptual model, the authors propose a connection between servant leadership and motivating language. Findings – In the proposed model, motivating language acts as a full and a partial mediator. The authors further categorize three distinct outcome sets that should be improved from this relationship. The first set includes improved worker performance, job satisfaction, absenteeism and worker innovation. The second set is composed of self-efficacy, organizational citizenship behavior and employee commitment. Finally, the third set includes trust, satisfaction with the leader and inspiration to become servant leaders. Research limitations/implications – Empirical research needs to be conducted to test this model. Practical implications – The positive effects of servant leadership through the use of motivating language could be operationalized in multiple ways. First, potential servant leaders could take the well-established, reliable and valid motivating language scale to diagnostically identify their leader-member communication strengths and weaknesses. Then, tailored motivating language trainings could be implemented which target motivating language weaknesses and key strategic outcomes in the proposed model. Furthermore, motivating language training would be a valuable instrument for transmission of a servant leadership culture. Social implications – Servant leadership style responds to the demand for positive ethical behavior that is much needed during these times when emphasis is given to profitability and lack of concern for people is the norm rather than the exception. It is also synchronized with the current benefits of organizational citizenship behaviors that have recently emerged in the field of managerial research. Originality/value – This paper aims at addressing a gap in the literature by developing a model of how leader strategic language, namely, motivating language, mediates between servant leadership and worker outcomes.

scholarly journals How authentic leadership promotes individual performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (9) ◽  
pp. 1585-1607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neuza Ribeiro ◽  
Ana Patrícia Duarte ◽  
Rita Filipe
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Civic Virtue ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a more comprehensive understanding of how authentic leadership (AL) can affect individual performance through creativity and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB)’s mediating roles. Design/methodology/approach The sample included 177 leader-follower dyads from 26 private and small and medium-sized organizations. Followers reported their perceptions of AL, and leaders assessed each follower’s level of creativity, individual performance and OCB. Findings The findings show that AL has a positive impact on OCB (i.e. altruism, sportsmanship, civic virtue, conscientiousness and courtesy), employee creativity, and individual performance. Creativity partially mediates the relationship between AL and individual performance. Some dimensions of OCB, namely, altruism, civic virtue and courtesy, also play a mediating role in this relationship. Research limitations/implications Additional studies with larger samples are needed to determine more clearly not only AL’s influence on individual performance but also other psychosocial variables affecting that relationship. Practical implications Organizations can increase employees’ creativity, OCB and individual performance by encouraging managers to adopt more AL styles. Originality/value This study is the first to integrate AL, creativity, OCB and individual performance into a single research model, thereby extending previous research. The study also used a double-source method to collect data (i.e. leader-follower dyads) to minimize the risk of introducing common-method variance.

The influence of servant leadership on employees' outcomes via job embeddedness in hospitality industry

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Qamar Zia ◽  
Muhammad Naveed ◽  
Muhammad Adnan Bashir ◽  
Asif Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Job Embeddedness ◽  
Work Outcomes ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Hotel Management ◽  
Content Type

PurposeDrawing from social exchange theory, the purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of servant leadership on organizational citizenship behavior, turnover intentions and work performance through mediating role of job embeddedness.Design/methodology/approachThe data were gathered from 252 frontline employees of Pakistan's hotel industry in two-time lags with an interval of two months by using purposive sampling. PLS-SEM was applied for the analysis of data and hypothesis testing.FindingsThe study ascertained that job embeddedness is a potent mediator between the nexus of servant leadership and aforementioned work outcomes. The study results portray that servant leadership promotes job embeddedness, OCB, work performance and reduces turnover intentions.Research limitations/implicationsHotel management can use job embeddedness to boost servant leadership and reduce turnover intentions. In addition, management should also increase servant leadership by organizing training and workshops for their managers, which ultimately improves followers' organizational citizenship behavior and work performance.Practical implicationsHotel management can use job embeddedness to boost OCB, work performance and reduce turnover intentions. In addition, management should also increase servant leadership by organizing training and workshops for their managers, which ultimately improves followers' citizenship behavior and work performance.Originality/valueThere are numerous calls for research to ascertain as well as sparse literature available whether job embeddedness act as a mediator in the nexus of servant leadership and work outcomes or not. The current study fills these voids and contributes to the literature by empirically examining the mechanism of job embeddedness between servant leadership and the work outcomes.

Servant leadership and organizational citizenship behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 2035-2053
Author(s):  
Dioni Elche ◽  
Pablo Ruiz-Palomino ◽  
Jorge Linuesa-Langreo
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Service Climate ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This paper aims to process underlying the relationship between supervisor servant leadership and employee organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in hotels. Specifically, it analyzes the mediating role of empathy – individual level – and service climate – group level – in the relationship between supervisor servant leadership and employee OCB. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis uses original data on hotels located in historic cities in Spain. A survey provided a sample of 343 work-group-level (supervisors) and 835 individual-level (employee) from a sample of 171 hotels. Findings The most interesting finding is the indirect effect of supervisor servant leadership on employee OCB through the mediating role of both employee empathy – individual level – and group service climate – group level. Practical implications The findings suggest that hotel supervisors should adopt servant leadership to enhance OCB in their workgroups. This paper also provides insights into other ways to increase employee OCB, namely, through human resources initiatives that enhance employee empathy and shape a service climate within groups. Originality/value This paper is one of the few that analyzes the relationships between supervisor servant leadership, employee empathy, group service climate and employee OCB in a unifying cross-level model. It is also the first to analyze employee empathy as a positive outcome of supervisor servant leadership, as well as a mechanism to explain the relationship between servant leadership and employee OCB. Finally, it is one of the few studies that analyzes all these relationships in conjunction within the hospitality industry.

Building employees’ organizational citizenship behavior for the environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 406-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuan Trong Luu
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Environmental Values ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Environmental Behaviors ◽  
Content Type

PurposeMechanisms behind employees’ pro-environmental behaviors have increasingly been attracting scholarly attention. The purpose of this study is to examine how environmentally specific servant leadership contributes to employees’ organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (employee OCBE).Design/methodology/approachIn this research, employees from resort hotels in Central Vietnam were selected as participants. The data analysis was conducted through structural equation modeling and bootstrapping test.FindingsEnvironmentally specific servant leadership exhibited the positive association with employee OCBE through employee environmental engagement as a mediator. Two moderation mechanisms – organizational support for green behaviors and person-group fit – were also found to serve as enhancers for the effect of environmentally specific servant leadership on employee OCBE.Practical implicationsThe research results provide hospitality organizations with a premise for the focus of servant leadership and organizational support around pro-environmental values. It is also vital for practitioners to build the fit between employees and the organization’s pro-environmental values so as to further promote their positive reaction to environmentally specific servant leadership and engagement in pro-environmental behaviors.Originality/valueThe present study marks the confluence between environmentally specific servant leadership and employee OCBE research streams and provides a moderated mediation mechanism to shed light on such a relationship.

Organizational citizenship behavior and team effectiveness in service industry: a moderated mediation model

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaliqur Rehman Ansari ◽  
Rajesh Kumar Upadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this study to explore the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), team effectiveness (TE), employee motivation (EM) and employee retention (ER) in the service sector. This study proposes an alternate heuristic TE framework, which is termed as IMMO (input-moderated mediation-output) by replacing M with MM (moderated mediation) in IMOI framework. Design/methodology/approach The research was conducted in service sector of Uttarakhand state and the data collected from the employees working in different service organizations (such as educational institute, banking, insurance several others). Collected data were analyzed by using different analytical tools like confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling for validating the constructs used in this study and to assess the relationship among different variables used for this study. Findings The result of this study reveals that OCB has positive impact on TE, and the relationship is mediated partially by EM, and the relation between EM and TE is moderated by ER. Originality/value This study contributes to the existing literature on OCB and TE. The relation between OCB and TE with the mediation of EM and the moderation effect of ER between the relation of EM and TE was investigated. This study suggests both theoretical and practical implications based on the findings.

Relationship of liking and social exchange to supervisor-directed organizational citizenship behavior in the Arabian Gulf

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Unnikammu Moideenkutty ◽  
Stuart Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Arabian Gulf ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper was to explore the relationship among liking, social exchange and supervisor-directed organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Design/methodology/approach Employees and their supervisors were surveyed to obtain data from 202 subordinates and 33 supervisors. Findings Results indicated that liking is positively related to social exchange and supervisor-directed OCB. Contrary to expectations, social exchange did not partially mediate the relationship between liking and citizenship. Research limitations/implications A limitation of the study is that it was correlational. The lack of support for mediating effect of social exchange suggests the need for further research with data collected from different sources. Practical implications Liking has positive effects on both social exchange relationship and supervisor-directed OCB. Trust is an important element of social exchange. Liking may be an independent source of influence on supervisor-directed OCB. Social implications Liking, an affective variable, may be an important influence in organizational behavior. It represents positive organizational behavior which is currently generating significant scholarly attention. Originality/value This study was conducted in the Sultanate of Oman, an Arabian Gulf country. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first such study done in the region. In this study, the authors include trust as a representative of the quality of relationship between supervisor and subordinates. Unlike leader–member exchange (LMX), trust has rarely been related to liking in previous studies. Study tests for social exchange (including supervisory trust) as a mediator of the relationship between liking and supervisor-directed OCB.

ANALISIS FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI PERILAKU ORGANISASI PERAWAT DI RUMAH SAKIT UMUM DAERAH KABUPATEN LUWU

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (01) ◽  
pp. 723-733
Author(s):  
Hairuddin Safaat ◽  
Tn. Jumadil
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Regression Coefficient ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
P Value ◽  
Main Concern

The needs of nurses who have the category of "good citizen" is the main concern that can not be ignored by management because it will have a positive impact on the organization.The purpose of this research is to analyze the influence of workload, job satisfaction and organizational commitment to Organizational Citizenship Behavior nurses. The research involved 104 implementer nurses. Data excavation techniques used questionnaires and interviews. Data were analyzed by regression analysis, t test, F test and coefficient of determination.The result of the research at the 5% significance level shows that: Workload has positive effect not significant to OCB nurse (regression coefficient: 0.116, p value: 0.245). The variables that give positive and significant influence to the nurse OCB are job satisfaction (regression coefficient: 0,226 and p value: 0,022) and organizational commitment (regression coefficient: 0,253 and p value: 0,012). Workload, job satisfaction and organizational commitment simultaneously give positive and significant influence to OCB nurse (F arithmetic: 4.836) with sig value: 0,003). Organizational commitment was the most dominant variable significantly influence the organizational citizenship behavior of nurses in the context of nurses in Batara Guru regional hospital, Luwu regency. Keywords : Work load, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Corporate social responsibility and employee organizational citizenship behavior

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongqiang Gao ◽  
Wei He
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Ethical Leadership ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Positive Effect

Purpose An increasing number of studies have demonstrated a positive effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on employee organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), but little attention has been paid to the mechanisms and boundary conditions underlying this effect. The purpose of this paper is to propose a trickle-down model and examine the mediating role of supervisor ethical leadership and the moderating role of perceived organizational distributive justice in the CSR-OCB relationship. Design/methodology/approach To test the arguments, the authors collected field data in four companies located in a central city of China. Through a multi-wave data collection design, a total of 187 employees reported their perceptions toward firms’ CSR and organizational justice at Time 1, and reported their direct supervisors’ ethical leadership behaviors, and their own OCBs at Time 2 (four weeks later). Findings Empirical findings demonstrated that CSR had a positive effect on employee OCB, as mediated by supervisors’ ethical leadership. In addition, this mediation effect was found to be moderated by perceived organizational distributive justice such that the mediation relationship was stronger when perceived organizational distributive justice was lower than when it was higher. Originality/value The present study makes three major contributions. First, it contributes to the CSR literature by revealing the underlying mechanism of ethical leadership through which CSR will lead to increased employee OCB in the workplace. Second, the moderation findings of the study add a new piece of empirical evidence suggesting the boundary condition of organizational distributive justice affecting the positive effect of CSR on employee OCB. Finally, the trickle-down theoretical model demonstrates the pivotal role of leadership in transforming CSR into positive employee outcomes, providing valuable insights into future research that examines why CSR motivates in-organization employees at work.

Does motivation play moderating role on organizational citizenship behavior? Evidence from Indonesian telecommunication firms

2021 ◽  
pp. 1667-1676
Author(s):  
Maria Grace Herlina ◽  
Nopriadi Saputra
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
The Impact

Highly competitive and continuous business changes in telecommunication industry make organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) strategically important. This research aims to test the impact of transformational leadership of the direct supervisor on working motivation of the employees. Does supervisor's leadership capability impact on employees' work motivation more intrinsically or extrinsically? The study was conducted in an Indonesian telecommunication company which provides television cable and high-speed internet services for the high-rise building in Java and Sumatra. It involved 199 employees as the respondents. The collected data was analyzed with structural equation modelling approach. The statistical test has proved that transformational leadership has a positive impact on work motivation and organizational citizenship behavior. The motivation – both extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation, impacts on organizational citizenship behavior significantly. Although transformational does impact on organizational citizenship behavior both directly and indirectly, but the working motivation does not play a mediating role in the relationship between transformation leadership and organizational citizenship behavior.

Impact of organizational citizenship behavior on job performance in Indian healthcare industries

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 780-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eeman Basu ◽  
Rabindra Kumar Pradhan ◽  
Hare Ram Tewari
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and job performance. It also examines the mediating role of social capital in influencing the relationship between OCB and job performance. Design/methodology/approach The study explores the dynamic relationship among the variables of OCB and job performance and social capital. Data were collected from 501 respondents working in 15 healthcare organizations in Kolkata, India, through questionnaire survey. Likert-type rating scales of OCB, job performance and social capital with sound reliability and validity were used to carry out the survey. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings The results of the present study show that OCB significantly predicts job performance in healthcare organizations. Social capital found to be a significant mediator between OCB and job performance. Research limitations/implications The findings of the study have a number of implications for organizations in acknowledging and leveraging social capital and encouraging OCB to facilitate superior performance of employees. The generalization of the findings of the study should be restricted to the healthcare organizations in Kolkata due to its own style of functioning, workforce and work environment. The role of demographic variables in influencing the outcome measures has not been considered for the present study. Further research on these aspects may reveal more interesting results with regard to the dynamics among organizational citizenship behavior, social capital and job performance. Practical implications Employee-friendly management practices should be adopted in organizations to facilitate the formation of network building and development of social capital which serves as an asset to organizations and creates competitive advantage. Originality/value The research findings enrich our understanding of voluntary social participation and citizenship behavior of employees for influencing performance at work. The study also provides useful and unique insight on the benefits of networking in healthcare organizations particularly helping employees to cope with emergency situations. The findings as well as methodology used in this study are original and unique.

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