Empowering Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Mediating Roles of Psychological Empowerment and Emotional Intelligence in Medical Service Industry

This study investigates the effects of employees' positively oriented organizational behavior and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) use on knowledge sharing behavior after a two-month period. Based on previous research, it was expected that: (1) organizational citizenship behavior would be positively related to knowledge sharing behavior; (2) psychological capital would be positively related to knowledge sharing behavior; (3) OCB would mediate the relationship between psychological capital and knowledge sharing behavior; (4) psychological empowerment would be positively related to knowledge sharing behavior; and (5) OCB would mediate the relationship between psychological empowerment and knowledge sharing behavior. Results provided support for the direct effects of OCB, psychological capital and psychological empowerment on knowledge sharing behavior. Psychological capital and psychological empowerment were each indirectly related to knowledge sharing behavior, mediate by OCB. To be more precise, individuals with higher level of psychological capital and psychological empowerment were not only more likely to participate in organizational citizenship behavior but having a higher level of positively orientated organizational behavior made them to engage more in knowledge sharing behavior two months later.

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Going beyond borders: Work centrality, emotional intelligence and employee optimism as predictors of organizational citizenship behavior

Cogent Psychology ◽

10.1080/23311908.2017.1362805 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 1362805 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Fabian O. Ugwu ◽

Dorothy Aumbur Igbende ◽

Juliet Wakefield

Keyword(s):

Emotional Intelligence ◽

Organizational Citizenship ◽

Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽

Citizenship Behavior ◽

Work Centrality

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Interplay of organizational justice, psychological empowerment, organizational citizenship behavior, and job satisfaction in the context of circular economy

Management Decision ◽

10.1108/md-09-2018-0966 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 57 (4) ◽

pp. 937-952 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Sanjay Kumar Singh ◽

Ajai Pratap Singh

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Organizational Justice ◽

Organizational Citizenship ◽

Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Psychological Empowerment ◽

Citizenship Behavior ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Content Type ◽

Human Aspects

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to examine relevant organizational “human” aspects that support circular economy (CE); and second, to investigate the influence of perception of organizational justice (OJ), psychological empowerment on job satisfaction (JS) through mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB).Design/methodology/approachThe study used survey questionnaire. The data were statistically analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) to test hypotheses of the study.FindingsOJ positively and significantly influences psychological empowerment. Also, it was found that OCB and psychological empowerment to positively and significantly influence JS. Furthermore, OCB positively and significantly mediates the influence of OJ and psychological empowerment on JS.Practical implicationsEmployees should be provided with fair and empowering environment to derive positive outcomes in terms of organizational citizenship behavior and JS. The study also suggests recognizing the importance of OCB in an organization to enhance JS and support CE.Originality/valueThe study presents empirical evidence in Indian context on how to encourage employees to display voluntary job behaviors and keep them job satisfied.

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The Role Of Psychoogical Empowerment, Workplace Friendship, Workplace Spirituality and Subjective Wellbeing on Organizational Citizenship Behavior

JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT ◽

10.32424/jorim.v3i1.97 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Author(s):

ILHAM MUZAKI ◽

ADE IRMA ANGGRAENI

Keyword(s):

Organizational Citizenship ◽

Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽

Subjective Wellbeing ◽

Psychological Empowerment ◽

Well Being ◽

Citizenship Behavior ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Workplace Friendship ◽

Spirituality At Work

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of psychological empowerment, friendship at work, spirituality at work and subjective well-being on organizational citizenship behavior. From the results obtained it can be concluded that the influence of psychological empowerment on organizational citizenship behavior. Then there is no influence between friendship at work on organizational citizenship behavior. Furthermore there is an influence between spirituality at work on organizational citizenship behavior and finally there is an influence between subjective well-being on organizational citizenship behavior of employees.

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