Transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior: new mediating roles for trustworthiness and trust in team leaders
- Title
- Transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior: new mediating roles for trustworthiness and trust in team leaders
- Creator
- Lee M.C.C.; Lin M.-H.; Srinivasan P.M.; Carr S.C.
- Description
- This study investigates the pivotal role of trust in bridging the effects of transformational leadership on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The study was conducted using a multilevel longitudinal approach with 276 employees in 71 teams from private medium-sized organizations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Transformational leadership was found to be positively related to: (1) three facets of trustworthiness (ability, benevolence, and integrity); (2) trust in the leader; and (3) OCB. All three facets of trustworthiness mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and trust in leaders. In addition, trust in the leader mediated only the relationship between the benevolence facet of trustworthiness and OCB. As OCB is inherently benevolent, these findings not only are consistent with the principle of compatibility, but they also contribute to theorizing about how trust plays an important role in the influence of transformational leadership on employees. The Author(s) 2023.
- Source
- Current Psychology, Vol-43, No. 11, pp. 9567-9582.
- Date
- 2024-01-01
- Publisher
- Springer
- Subject
- Ability; Benevolence; Integrity; Malaysia; Organizational citizenship behavior; Transformational leadership; Trust; Trustworthiness
- Coverage
- Lee M.C.C., School of Psychology, Massey University, Auckland, Albany, 0745, New Zealand; Lin M.-H., Department of Psychology, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Petaling Jaya, 47500, Malaysia; Srinivasan P.M., Department of Psychology, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, 560029, India; Carr S.C., School of Psychology, Massey University, Auckland, Albany, 0745, New Zealand
- Rights
- All Open Access; Hybrid Gold Open Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 10461310
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Lee M.C.C.; Lin M.-H.; Srinivasan P.M.; Carr S.C., “Transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior: new mediating roles for trustworthiness and trust in team leaders,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 26, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/13312.