The Impact of Authentic Leadership on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Affective‐ and Cognitive-Based Trust

Tahir Farid; Sadaf Iqbal; Asif Khan; Asif Khan; Jianhong Ma; Amira Khattak; Muhammad Naseer Ud Din

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01975

Frontiers in Psychology (Sep 2020)

The Impact of Authentic Leadership on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Affective‐ and Cognitive-Based Trust

Tahir Farid,
Sadaf Iqbal,
Asif Khan,
Asif Khan,
Jianhong Ma,
Amira Khattak,
Muhammad Naseer Ud Din

Affiliations

Tahir Farid: Department of Applied Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Sadaf Iqbal: Department of Applied Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Asif Khan: Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Asif Khan: Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
Jianhong Ma: Department of Applied Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Amira Khattak: Department of Marketing, College of Business Administration, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Naseer Ud Din: Department of Education and Psychology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01975
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11

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Authentic leadership has appeared as a significant field of research. Building on social exchange theory that explicates how individuals mutually mechanize reciprocation and eventually establish a trust-based relationship, we postulated a positive relationship between authentic leadership and followers’ organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). Based on a two-wave time lagged design, the data were obtained from 270 employees working in a private banking sector of Pakistan. We found that authentic leadership is positively associated with subordinate’s OCBs, as well as leads to a higher-level of both affective‐ and cognitive-based followers’ trust. The results also indicated that both affective‐ and cognitive-based trust positively mediated the relationship between authentic leadership and OCBs. The implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Published in Frontiers in Psychology

ISSN: 1664-1078 (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Psychology
Website: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology

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