Enhancing organizational citizenship behaviors through ethical leadership and empowerment: Educational institution's context

Abstract

The study aimed to examine the influence of ethical leadership and leadership empowerment on the organizational citizenship behavior of the employees. To deepen the concept of the study, the literature was reviewed. The study used descriptive assessment and a correlational research design. The population of the study was the employees of the Divine Word College of Laoag. Data gathered using research questionnaires and inferential statistics was used to analyze the data. The study found that ethical leadership was high, but leadership empowerment was low, and organizational citizenship was high. However, the correlation analysis found a significant relationship between ethical leadership and organizational citizenship behavior, while no correlation exists between leadership empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior. The study acknowledges its limitations, primarily due to its limited scope and the number of variables examined. It is suggested to conduct further study to include more variables that affect OCB.