Effect of transformational leadership on job performance: testing the mediating role of corporate social responsibility

Jnaneswar, K; Ranjit, Gayathri

doi:10.1108/jamr-05-2020-0068

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“…We applied Herman's single-factor method to check the measurement biases (Song et al, 2019;Yeap et al, 2016). The results confirmed that the collected data does not suffer from the issue of CMV as a percentage (%) of variance explained one factor as 42.92%, which is under the limit of 50% (Jnaneswar and Ranjit, 2020;Manzoor et al, 2019). Therefore, it was evident that CMV will not cause any serious effect on our findings.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…To examine the mediating effect of CSR in the nexus of EL and EJP, the PROCESS macro was executed using SPSS (Hayes, 2017). This Hayes method is considered more suitable and reliable than Sobel's test to explore the indirect mediation effects (Jnaneswar and Ranjit, 2020). From the template of Hayes process V25, Model 4 was selected which allows us to check the mediating effect between explaining and explanatory variables with an estimated 95% confidence interval and 5,000 bootstrapping samples.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Empirical evidence also supports this influence of leadership on CSR (Muller and Kolk, 2010). Although the studies of Jnaneswar and Ranjit (2020) and Manzoor et al (2019) have analyzed the relationship between leadership (e.g. transformational) and CSR, the limitation of the aforementioned leadership style instead of EL to forecast CSR is noticeable because EL more openly evaluates the ethical characteristics of leaders rather than transformational leadership (Ullah et al, 2017;Brown et al, 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, it gives us the reason to investigate the EL-CSR nexus in the Italian SME sector. Second, we noticed that there are studies which have investigated the relationship between transformational leadership and EJP with the mediation of CSR (Jnaneswar and Ranjit, 2020;Manzoor et al, 2019;Hongdao et al, 2019), transformational leadership, employee engagement with the mediation of CSR (Besieux et al, 2018), authentic leadership and organizational citizenship behavior with the mediation of CSR (Iqbal et al, 2018), but as per the researcher's knowledge, no scholarly study is available that addresses the association between EL, CSR and EJP in the SME sector. It encourages us to investigate this important model in the context of SMEs.…”

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Does CSR mediate the nexus of ethical leadership and employee’s job performance? Evidence from North Italy SMEs

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Sarwar

Amin

et al. 2021

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Purpose Leadership has a decisive role in the success of all types of businesses and firms, including small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and the ethical behavior of leaders is a key component which brings a sense of respect, fulfillment, trustworthiness and acceptance among the employees, which later become visible in their job performance (JP). This study aims to check the immediate effect of ethical leadership (EL) on employee’s JP (EJP) and also explore the indirect mediating effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on this EL and EJP nexus. Design/methodology/approach Primary data was obtained from the employees of manufacturing SMEs of Northern Italy using a cross-sectional design from the end of 2019 to the start of 2020. This paper circulated 450 self-administered questionnaires using simple random sampling, and 202 (44.88%) valid questionnaires were returned. The PROCESS macro was performed using statistical package for social sciences to ensure whether or not EL affects EJP and is there any mediation effect of CSR present in this nexus. Findings The results indicate that EL has a strong positive connection with EJP and CSR. Interestingly, CSR positively influences EJP. Furthermore, the results also report the strong mediating effect of CSR in the nexus of EL and EJP. Originality/value This scholarly work seeks to contribute not only to the literature of EL and EJP but also enriches the understanding of this EL-EJP association by highlighting the indirect effect of mediating variable CSR in the SME sector.

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Does CSR mediate the nexus of ethical leadership and employee’s job performance? Evidence from North Italy SMEs

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Amin

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“…Most of the previous researchers have studied the impact of emotional exhaustion, OCB, leadership style on performance in the Western context (Alamir et al, 2019;Naeem and Khanzada, 2018;Robbins and Judge, 2009). However, to the best of our knowledge, in the Indian context, the research is either scant or scattered, or replicated in Western studies (Jnaneswar and Ranjit, 2020). Since India's working conditions and work culture are different, it is necessary to examine the causal relationship between emotional exhaustion and PR 52,3 performance, particularly considering the paradigmatic change in the work culture the global pandemic brought (Rana et al, 2020).…”

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Emotional exhaustion, emotional intelligence and task performance of employees in educational institutions during COVID 19 global pandemic: a moderated-mediation model

D’Souza

Irudayasamy

Parayitam

2022

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PurposeThe objective of the present study is to investigate the relationship between emotional exhaustion and performance. During the present coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic, as the world has come to a standstill and more than 200 countries have been seriously affected, the level of emotional exhaustion experienced by people worldwide is beyond one's imagination. But how organizations were coping with emotional exhaustion and maintaining performance has remained an important question. To address this, the authors developed a conceptual model suggesting that organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) can act as a mediator, and leadership style and emotional intelligence (EI) can act as moderators in alleviating the dysfunctional consequences of emotional exhaustion.Design/methodology/approachUsing a structured survey instrument, data were collected from 384 respondents from the faculty and administrative personnel in the Mangalore Diocese educational institutions. The authors used stratified sampling and tested the psychometric properties of the instrument using Lisrel software. To test the hypotheses involving two-way and three-way interactions, the authors used Hayes (2018) PROCESS as a statistical technique.FindingsThe results revealed that OCB mediated the relationship between emotional exhaustion and performance. To alleviate the dysfunctional consequences of emotional exhaustion, EI and transformational leadership interact to influence OCBs. The authors found that at lower and higher levels of EI, employees exhibited OCBs when leaders exhibited a greater level of transformational leadership. Furthermore, the transactional leadership style interacted with emotional exhaustion to reduce the adverse effects of later on performance.Research limitations/implicationsAs with any research based on self-report measures, the present study has inherent limitations of social desirability and common method bias. However, the authors have sufficient care to minimize, if not eliminate, these limitations. The research highlights the importance of EI, a contingency leadership style in organizations, to reduce the adverse effects of emotional exhaustion caused by the global pandemic.Practical implicationsThis study contributes to both organizations and literature on personnel psychology and organizational behavior. The study suggests that individuals need to invest resources in developing the skills of controlling and regulating their emotions and engaging in extra-role behaviors. In addition, leaders in organizations need to exercise transformational and transactional leadership styles to combat the present COVID-19 global pandemic situation.Originality/valueThis study provides new insights into the importance of EI, leadership style, and OCBs in restoring the loss of resources because of emotional exhaustion. The conceptual model developed and tested is the first of its kind in India, to our knowledge, and contributes to both theory and practice.

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Influencing responsible green innovation in Dominican agribusiness performance

Espaillat

Peñalver

Conesa

2022

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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The objective of this article is to explore the combined effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR), green transformational leadership and knowledge transfer on responsible green innovation and to analyse their impact on agribusiness business performance in the context of a developing country. There is no research that integrates joint effects on responsible innovation with a focus on process inputs and increased greening capabilities in agricultural units. Moreover, we have integrated transformational green leadership to better explain this impact as a differentiator. Results show both knowledge transfer and green transformational leadership have positive relationships with responsible green innovation, and the latter has a positive impact on environmental, economic and strategic performance dimensions. Overall, our results establish that CSR is an external driver that reinforces knowledge transfer with an emphasis on collaboration. CSR also reinforces green leadership functions through synergies in conjunction with green human resource management practices.

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Effect of transformational leadership on job performance: testing the mediating role of corporate social responsibility

Cited by 31 publications

References 108 publications

Does CSR mediate the nexus of ethical leadership and employee’s job performance? Evidence from North Italy SMEs

Does CSR mediate the nexus of ethical leadership and employee’s job performance? Evidence from North Italy SMEs

Emotional exhaustion, emotional intelligence and task performance of employees in educational institutions during COVID 19 global pandemic: a moderated-mediation model

Influencing responsible green innovation in Dominican agribusiness performance

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