Leadership styles and group organizational citizenship behavior across cultures


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Output typeJournal article

Author listEuwema MC, Wendt H, Van Emmerik H

PublisherWiley

Publication year2007

JournalJournal of Organizational Behavior (0894-3796)

Volume number28

Issue number8

Start page1035

End page1057

Number of pages23

ISSN0894-3796

eISSN1099-1379

LanguagesEnglish-Great Britain (EN-GB)


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Abstract

This study investigates (a) the effects of societal culture on group organizational citizenship behavior (GOCB), and (b) the moderating role of culture on the relationship between directive and supportive leadership and GOCB. Data were collected from 20 336 managers and 95 893 corresponding team members in 33 countries. Multi-level analysis was used to test the hypotheses, and culture was operationalized using two dimensions of Hofstede (2001) and GLOBE (2004): Individualism (IDV) and power distance (PD). There was no direct relationship between these cultural dimensions and GOCB. Directive leadership had a negative relation, and supportive leadership a positive relation with GOCB. Culture moderated this relationship: Directive leadership was more negatively, and supportive behavior less positively, related to GOCB in individualistic compared to collectivistic societies. The moderating effects of societal PD were explained by societal IDV. Copyright (C) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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