The Effect of Empowering Leadership on Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Chinese Employees

The purpose of the study was to empirically investigate the impacts of empowering leadership on organizational citizenship behavior and the mediating role of psychological empowerment in the relationship between empowering leadership and organizational behavior in Chinese employees. Moreover, this study demonstrates the moderating role of affective commitment between psychological empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior. The results show that: first, empowering leadership was found to have a significant relationship with organizational citizenship behavior; second, there is a positive relationship between empowering leadership and psychological empowerment. Third, as predicted, psychological empowerment was positively related to OCB, Fourth, the mediating role of psychological empowerment was identified in the relationship between empowering leadership and organizational behavior. The moderating role of affective commitment between psychological empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior is significant. Finally some practical recommendations to develop the leadership competencies for Chinese managers were suggested.