The Effect of Servant Leadership on Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of servant leadership on organizational citizenship behavior with regard to the mediating role of psychological empowerment in employees of Isfahan University. In presentresearch, servant leadership is independent variable; psychological empowerment is mediating variable and organizational citizenship behavior is dependent variable. According to the purpose of study, the present researchis applied research. Also according to way of data collection the present study are descriptive research. The population of the study consisted of all employees of Isfahan University in Isfahan city which 150 persons were selected as the subjects of the study. For analyzing data is used descriptive and inferential statistics by using the SPSS software. In order to evaluate the validity of the data achieved through instrument (questionnaire) readers, advisors, and experts. The internal reliability of the items was verified by computing the Cronbach’s alpha. Research findings are as follows: servant leadership has a significant effect on psychological empowerment; psychological empowerment has a significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior; servant leadership has a significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior and finally psychological empowerment mediate the significant effect of servant leadership on organizational citizenship behavior in employees of Isfahan University

کلیدواژه ها:

Servant leadership ، organizational citizenship behavior ، psychological empowerment