The Effect of Empowering Leadership on Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Chinese Employees: Moderating Role of Affective Commitment, Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Zhi-Cheng Wang ◽  
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Bin Fu ◽  
In-Soo Han
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Moderating Role

scholarly journals Impact of Participative Leadership on Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Mediating Role of Trust and Moderating Role of Continuance Commitment: Evidence from the Pakistan Hotel Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Misbah Hayat Bhatti ◽  
Yanbin Ju ◽  
Umair Akram ◽  
Muhammad Hasnat Bhatti ◽  
Zubair Akram ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Participative Leadership ◽  
Cognitive Trust ◽  
Continuance Commitment ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Moderating Role

The present study examines the mediating role of affective and cognitive trust, and the moderating role of continuous commitment on participative leadership and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) relationships. Four hundred employees were recruited from the hotel industry in Pakistan. The bootstrapping method was used for an estimation of the mediation effect by the process macro. This study employs confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. Results revealed that affective trust significantly mediates the relationship between participative leadership and OCB. Moreover, continuous commitment significantly plays a moderating role in the relationship between participative leadership and OCB. This study provides unique insight into the OCB in the hotel industry. Affective and cognitive trust as a mediator and moderator of continuance commitment are examined, which is the novel characteristic of this study. Managerial implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.

The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Employee retention: Role of Organizational and Communication (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuja Iqbal ◽  
HongYun Tian ◽  
Shamim Akhtar ◽  
Sikandar Ali Qalati
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Employee Retention ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

BACKGROUND Employee retention has been studied by researchers in relation to many factors. Cost of losing talented employees in much higher than recruiting and training the new ones. Past studies have shown abundant research and importance of chosen variables in different relationships. This study is unique in terms of studying the mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior and moderating role of communication in the selected model. OBJECTIVE This study investigates the impact of transformational leadership on employee retention in SMEs. Furthermore, this study examines the mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior and the moderating role of communication. METHODS Based on random sampling, 505 employees from SMEs were selected to response the constructed questionnaire. Smart PLS structured equation model (PLS-SEM) was used to estimate the various relationships. RESULTS The findings of the study reveal that there is a positive and significant relationship in transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. Similarly, this study found positive and significant relationship in organizational citizenship behavior and employee retention. In addition, organizational citizenship behavior had a positive mediating effect on the relationship between transformational leadership and employee retention. Furthermore, communication positively moderates transformational leadership, organizational citizenship employee retention relationships. CONCLUSIONS This study examines the mediation of organizational citizenship behavior and the moderation of communication which have been less studied in the literature. Findings revealed that transformational leadership and communication plays a significant role in relation of organizational citizenship behavior and employee retention. As such, management of SMEs need to pay particular attention to these variables, to retain employees for enhanced productivity and organizational growth.

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