Open AccessWhen Self-Sacrificial Leaders Induce Employees’ Citizenship Behaviors? Uncovering the Nexus of Psychological Empowerment and Psychological Well-Being
Author(s) -
Kamran Iqbal,
Muhammad Naveed,
Qazi Abdul Subhan,
Tehreem Fatima,
Saeed Alshahrani
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
sage open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357
H-Index - 32
ISSN - 2158-2440
DOI - 10.1177/21582440221085257
Subject(s) - organizational citizenship behavior , psychology , nexus (standard) , structural equation modeling , social psychology , moderation , organizational commitment , mediation , transformational leadership , empowerment , sociology , political science , social science , statistics , mathematics , computer science , law , embedded system
The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of self-sacrificial leadership on organizational citizenship behavior within the health sector through a moderated mediation approach. The study has been conducted on nurses working in public hospitals in Sargodha, Pakistan, and data have been collected through a questionnaire survey method. In this study, psychological empowerment is used as a moderator, and psychological wellbeing is used as a mediator between self-sacrificial leadership on organizational citizenship behavior based on the fundamental premise of Conservation of Resource (COR) theory. The data have been analyzed through Partial Least Square Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) to examine the hypotheses. Empirical results demonstrated that psychological well-being plays a significant and positive mediating role in the relationship between self-sacrificial leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. The results further explain that nurses’ psychological empowerment moderates the mediating effect of psychological well-being between self-sacrificial leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. This study adds to a better understanding of the role of self-sacrificial leadership in encouraging organizational citizenship behavior.