Servant Leadership and Proactive Personality as Impetus for Teachers’ Organizational Citizenship Behaviour

Abstract

Transformation in the national education, a dynamic education environment, and limited resource capability do not allow schools to function effectively if teachers are solely working on their own tasks. Hence, the educational sector greatly depends on teachers who are willing to exhibit organizational citizenship behaviour which is discretionary behaviour beyond their own tasks. Particularly, this study aims to investigate the influence of servant leadership and proactive personality on organizational citizenship behaviour. In this research, a total of 610 questionnaires were distributed to the public secondary school teachers in Perlis, Kedah, Penang, and Perak. From the total, only 466 samples were used for analysis purposes. The partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) technique was employed to analyse the relationships between the variables. The result revealed that servant leadership and proactive personality have a positive and significant direct influence on organizational citizenship behaviour. Therefore, the findings suggested that school leaders and policymakers to emphasise the servant leadership practice among the principals and encourage teachers to be more proactive in improving the organizational citizenship behaviour.

Exploring the relationship between servant leadership and volunteer attitudes within a US Catholic diocese

“…Unlike several previous studies (Amir and Santoso, 2019;Aziz et al, 2018;Dixon, 2013;G € UÇEL and Begec, 2012;Harwiki, 2016;Mathur and Negi, 2014;Mostafa, 2014;Setyaningrum, 2017), this research did not show any significant relationship between servant leadership and OCB. One explanation for this finding may be that this research was conducted among volunteers at local churches.…”

“…Some researchers found that there was a direct relationship between SL and OCB (Amir and Santoso, 2019;Aziz et al, 2018;Dixon, 2013;G € UÇEL and Begec, 2012;Harwiki, 2016;Mathur and Negi, 2014;Mostafa, 2014;Setyaningrum, 2017). The literature reveals that there is a significant relationship between servant leadership and OCB (Amir and Santoso, 2019;Aziz et al, 2018;Dixon, 2013;G € UÇEL and Begec, 2012;Harwiki, 2016;Mathur and Negi, 2014;Mostafa, 2014;Setyaningrum, 2017); however, this has not been studied among volunteer employees. Based on the literature we hypothesize H3.…”

The Effect of Servant Leadership and Authentic Leadership on Employee Performance: The Mediating Role of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB)

“…It means that leaders who implement the servant leadership approach can increase the OCB of the employees. The result of the research is compliance with (Mathur and Negi, 2014) revealed that SL gives a positive effect on OCB. On the contrary, Harwiki (2013) found different findings that SL does not give an effect on OCB.…”