The Impact of Ethical Leadership on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: Moderating Role of Abusive Supervision

Abstract

The current research aims to investigate the impact of Ethical Leadership on Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB). Besides, it also analyse the moderating role of Abusive Supervision on the relationship of Ethical Leadership and OCB. The data for the research has been gathered from the banking employees of Mardan City through questionnaires. Complete response from the employees was form 161 employees was received.  Sampling technique used was convenience sampling. While the data gathered was analysed through using SPSS and Hayes Process Macro was used for moderation analysis. The results revealed that Ethical leadership significantly affect OCB while Abusive supervision moderates the relationship of Ethical leadership and OCB. The research recommends that organisations should develop employees centric and employee friendly HR policies. Management should treat employees with care and affection so that they may develop of emotional attachement with the organisation resultantly they would develop citizenship behaviour with employees. In order for workers to trust their leaders, it is vital to facilitate open and honest communication inside the organisation. Staff morale and productivity are both boosted by open and honest dialogue that gets to the point.