Psychological identification with job: a leadership-OCB mediator
International Journal of Organizational Analysis
ISSN: 1934-8835
Article publication date: 11 December 2018
Issue publication date: 8 July 2019
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to examine influence of transformational and transactional leadership styles on employees’ organisational citizenship behaviours (OCBs), as well as the mediating role of job involvement in the Ghanaian hospitality industry.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were gathered from 258 employees in some selected hotels and restaurants in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana through a survey and analysed using covariance-based structural equation modelling.
Findings
The results indicated that both leadership styles influenced employees’ OCBs positively. Furthermore, job involvement positively influenced OCB and mediated between transformational leadership and OCB but not between transactional leadership and employees’ OCBs.
Practical implications
The study reaffirms the importance of employees’ OCBs and recommends that hotels and restaurants must encourage their supervisors to exhibit more transformational leadership behaviours (motivational, inspirational and visionary behaviours), as well as a combination of transformational and transactional leadership behaviours which can influence their employees to go beyond formal requirements, and get more involved in their jobs to the benefit of the organisations.
Originality/value
This study reveals the extent to which internal motivations of employees, specifically their job involvement, causes their extra-role behaviours and influences the leaders–OCB relationships from a developing country perspective.
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Citation
Dartey-Baah, K. and Addo, S.A. (2019), "Psychological identification with job: a leadership-OCB mediator", International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Vol. 27 No. 3, pp. 548-565. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-10-2017-1262
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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