TY - JOUR AB - Based on social exchange theory, we examined and contrasted attitudinal mediators (affective organizational commitment, job satisfaction) and relational mediators (trust in leader, leader-member exchange; LMX) of the positive relationship between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Hypotheses were tested using meta-analytic path models with correlations from published meta-analyses (761 samples with 227,419 individuals overall). When testing single-mediator models, results supported our expectations that each of the mediators explained the relationship between transformational leadership and OCB. When testing a multi-mediator model, LMX was the strongest mediator. When testing a model with a latent attitudinal mechanism and a latent relational mechanism, the relational mechanism was the stronger mediator of the relationship between transformational leadership and OCB. Our findings help to better understand the underlying mechanisms of the relationship between transformational leadership and OCB. AU - Nohe, Christoph AU - Hertel, Guido DA - 2017-08-10 DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01364 KW - transformational leadership KW - organizational citizenship behavior KW - affective organizational commitment KW - job satisfaction KW - trust in the leader KW - leader-member exchange LA - eng N1 - Frontiers in Psychology 8 (2017) 1364, 1-13 N1 - Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2017 der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster). PY - 2017-08-10 TI - Transformational Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Test of Underlying Mechanisms UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-16139495288 Y2 - 2024-11-22T00:18:42 ER -