scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP ON ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR: THE MODERATING ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Mary Kuranchie ◽  
Ampofo Isaac Atta Junior

Leaders are systems’ fundamental piece and the effect factor for the forces impacted by the system. For this reason, the current study sought to investigate the effect of authentic leadership on organisational citizenship behaviour. It also examined the moderating role of organizational politics in the context of Ghana. The population for the study was teaching and non-teaching staff at the University of Education Winneba in Ghana. There were 237 samples. Data were obtained using the questionnaire. The research design used for the study was quantitative research with a descriptive study and this study has been used for explanatory purposes. The quantitative tool the researcher used to analyse data was Microsoft Excel, Amos, Process Macro, and statistical package for social sciences (SPSS 21). Findings revealed that authentic leadership had insignificant impact on organizational citizenship behaviour. Results also showed a positive but insignificant moderating role of organizational politics on the relationship between authentic leadership and organizational citizenship behaviour. The study recommended that institutions and businesses should not take note of authentic leadership to influence employees’ behaviours and should not consider organizational politics in addressing the decrease in employees’ behaviour.

Author(s):  
Stephen E. Iloke ◽  
Tochukwu M. Oguegbe ◽  
Leonard N. Ezeh

The present study investigated the moderating role of autonomy in the relationship among organizational citizenship behaviours, leader member exchange and workplace violence. Two hundred and twenty (220) non-teaching staff of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka campus participated in the study. They comprised of 176 females and 44 males. Their age ranged from 22 to 53 years with their mean age of 33.1yearsand standard deviation of 5.7. Four instruments were adopted in the study, namely 12-item workplace violence scale developed by Wang (2002), 20-item organizational citizenship behavior scale developed by Spector, Fox, Goh, Brussema & Kessler (2012), 11-item leader member exchange scale developed by Graen and Taylor (2004). Correlational design was employed for the study. Pearson product moment correlation statistics and multiple regression were also employed as the statistical tool to test the 4 hypotheses generated. The results of the hypotheses tested showed that organizational citizenship behavior positively and significantly correlated with workplace violence (r=.88, P<.001), leader member exchange positively and significantly correlated with workplace (r=.82, P<.001), autonomy significantly moderated the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and leader member exchange on workplace violence β(.-67, t= -5.15, p<.01)). Autonomy moderated the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and leader member exchange β(-2.34; t= -5.57, p<.01). It was recommended that workers should be encouraged to imbibe citizenship behaviours in their workplaces. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0770/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
Abdhy Aulia Adnans ◽  
Sherry Hadiyani ◽  
Siti Zahreni ◽  
Fahmi Fahmi

Abstract Hospitals in organizing excellent quality health services require human resources committed to the organization and a positive and conducive organizational climate. This study aims to determine the effect of organizational climate and organizational commitment to organizational citizenship behavior of nurses at USU Hospital. In this study, there are two independent variables: organizational climate and organizational commitment, and one dependent variable: organizational citizenship behavior. This research is quantitative research conducted using samples from the population of nurses at USU Hospital, where a sample of 125 nurses was obtained. The data analysis method used in this study is a statistical analysis with multiple regression analysis methods. Findings. The result of this study indicates a simultaneous influence between organizational climate and organizational commitment to organizational citizenship behavior.


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