Effect of Leadership Styles on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Employee Turnover Intention

The study is aimed at finding the effect of leadership styles on organizational citizenship behavior and employees’ turnover intentions. A descriptive survey research strategy was adopted over a sample of 240 respondents selected conveniently from eight universities of Pakistan. Multifactor Leadersh...

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Main Authors: Sajid Masood, Ghazal Khalid Siddiqui, Huma Lodhi, Shaista Shahbaz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CSRC Publishing 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies
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Online Access:https://publishing.globalcsrc.org/ojs/index.php/jafee/article/view/1200
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Ghazal Khalid Siddiqui
Huma Lodhi
Shaista Shahbaz
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description The study is aimed at finding the effect of leadership styles on organizational citizenship behavior and employees’ turnover intentions. A descriptive survey research strategy was adopted over a sample of 240 respondents selected conveniently from eight universities of Pakistan. Multifactor Leadership  Scale developed by the Williams and Anderson (1991) was used for data collection. Turnover Intention Scale developed by Roodt (2004) was used to determine employee turnover intention. Descriptive statistics along with ANOVA were used to analyze the data. The research indicated that transformational and transactional style of leadership have a positive relationship with organizational citizenship behavior whereas, laissez faire style has a negative relation with organizational citizenship behavior and positively related with employee turnover intention. Transformational and transactional style of leadership had an insignificant relation with employee turnover intention.
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spelling doaj.art-51c6aad221c5475e8b38b1d9beb2ebaf2022-12-21T21:18:04ZengCSRC PublishingJournal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies2519-03182518-84882020-06-016210.26710/jafee.v6i2.1200Effect of Leadership Styles on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Employee Turnover IntentionSajid Masood0Ghazal Khalid Siddiqui1Huma Lodhi2Shaista Shahbaz3Assistant Professor, University of Management & Technology, Lahore, PakistanAssistant Professor University of Education Lahore, PakistanAssistant Professor University of Education Lahore, PakistanLahore College Women University PakistanThe study is aimed at finding the effect of leadership styles on organizational citizenship behavior and employees’ turnover intentions. A descriptive survey research strategy was adopted over a sample of 240 respondents selected conveniently from eight universities of Pakistan. Multifactor Leadership  Scale developed by the Williams and Anderson (1991) was used for data collection. Turnover Intention Scale developed by Roodt (2004) was used to determine employee turnover intention. Descriptive statistics along with ANOVA were used to analyze the data. The research indicated that transformational and transactional style of leadership have a positive relationship with organizational citizenship behavior whereas, laissez faire style has a negative relation with organizational citizenship behavior and positively related with employee turnover intention. Transformational and transactional style of leadership had an insignificant relation with employee turnover intention.https://publishing.globalcsrc.org/ojs/index.php/jafee/article/view/1200Leadership, Styles, Turnover Intention, Pakistan, organizational citizenship behavior, Employee
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Ghazal Khalid Siddiqui
Huma Lodhi
Shaista Shahbaz
Effect of Leadership Styles on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Employee Turnover Intention
Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies
Leadership, Styles, Turnover Intention, Pakistan, organizational citizenship behavior, Employee
title Effect of Leadership Styles on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Employee Turnover Intention
title_full Effect of Leadership Styles on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Employee Turnover Intention
title_fullStr Effect of Leadership Styles on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Employee Turnover Intention
title_full_unstemmed Effect of Leadership Styles on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Employee Turnover Intention
title_short Effect of Leadership Styles on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Employee Turnover Intention
title_sort effect of leadership styles on organizational citizenship behavior and employee turnover intention
topic Leadership, Styles, Turnover Intention, Pakistan, organizational citizenship behavior, Employee
url https://publishing.globalcsrc.org/ojs/index.php/jafee/article/view/1200
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