Ethical Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Mediating Role of Organizational Justice: A Case Study of Education Sector.
1IQRA National University
2IMStudies, University of Peshawar
3University of Agriculture, Peshawar
Abstract
Based on its overall effectiveness the ethical leadership has opened new thinking avenues for the human resource managers during the past few decades. It has successfully drawn the attention of local and global human resource managers as it is having meaningful influences on the organizational citizenship behavior. Ethical leaders are expected to make the most appropriate use of organizational justice as a tool towards improving the employees’ job outcome. The current study was initiated with an objective to empirically investigate the relationship between ethical leadership and employee job outcome while considering the various determinants of organizational justice as mediating variable. As a matter of fact like other sectors the education sector is also widely expanding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The sample size of 250 faculty members has been taken for the current study through non-probability convenient sampling technique. Structured questionnaires were floated amongst the respondents in order to investigate the above mentioned subject matter. The results of the current study have revealed a significant relationship between ethical leadership and OCBI. Moreover, a positive relationship between the various determinants of organizational justice (as mediating variable) and OCBI has been recorded. The current study has described the meaningful implications for academia and professionals.
Keywords: Ethical Leadership, Employees Job Outcome, Organizational Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior.
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