Open AccessPerception of assistant teaching staff of their leaders’ transformational leadership behaviors and its relation to their organizational citizenship behaviors in Suez Canal University
Author(s) -
Amora Nasser Hamed Mostafa,
Wafaa Abd El-Azeem El-Hosany,
Nehad Fekry
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of nursing education and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-4059
pISSN - 1925-4040
DOI - 10.5430/jnep.v8n7p51
Subject(s) - transformational leadership , organizational citizenship behavior , psychology , perception , likert scale , scale (ratio) , suez canal , leadership style , social psychology , organizational commitment , business , developmental psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , international trade
Background and objective: Heads of academic departments are the first line leaders who directly influence the quality of their departments, transformational leadership has been demonstrated as an effective leadership style in leading organizations and motivating the subordinates to do more than what is being expected. This study aimed to assess the perception of assistant teaching staff of their leaders’ transformational leadership behaviors and its relation to their organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) in Suez Canal University.Methods: The studied sample was 456 of assistant teaching staff working at 13 faculties in Suez Canal University. Data collected using self-administrated questionnaire consists of two tools: transformational leadership scale, and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) scale, both likert types rating scale.Results: More than two thirds (65.2%) of the participated assistant teaching staff perceived their leaders as having unsatisfactory transformational leadership behaviors, two thirds (66.4%) of them were satisfied with their organizational citizenship behaviors, and there was significant positive correlation between transformational leadership behaviors and OCBs.Conclusions: There was significant positive correlation between transformational leadership behaviors and OCBs.