Ethical leadership and organizational citizenship behavior: The mediating roles of cognitive and affective trust

By Xiaojun Lu. 2014

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I proposed that trust mediates the relationship between ethical leadership and organizational citizenship behavior, which is classified into 2 types: organizationally directed (OCBO) and individually directed (OCBI). Participants comprised 104 supervisor-subordinate dyads employed in public-sector organizations in a city in eastern China. The results showed that ethical leadership had a significant main effect on both OCBO and OCBI. In addition, cognitive trust had no significant mediating effect on the relationships between ethical leadership and OCBO and ethical leadership and OCBI, but affective trust fully mediated these relationships. The contribution of the results, limitations in the study, and future directions for research are also discussed.

Subfields: Demography, Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Ethical Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility in China: A Multilevel Study of Their Effects on Trust and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (2017, background): “A model of corporate governance with higher moral and ethical standards has recently emerged (Lu 2014).”
• A multilevel investigation of the link between ethical leadership behaviour and employees green behaviour in the hospitality industry (2021, background): “Prior research examined the organisational trust as a consequence of ethical leadership behaviours from affective, cognitive, and organisational point of view (Lu, 2014; Peng and Kim, 2020; Xu et al., 2016; Yurtkoru et al., 2018).”
• Impact of Servant Leadership on Performance: The Mediating Role of Affective and Cognitive Trust (2020, background): “When servant leaders manage to develop quality relationships with their subordinates by inducing cognitive and affective trust, it results in a reciprocal exchange and the extra-role behaviors (i.e., OCB; Lu, 2014; Moorman, 1991).”