Impact of Leadership Behavior on Performance of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Determinants of Organizational Fairness : A Study of Select Private Sector Companies

Effective leadership is well thought-out to be a fundamental factor in the achievement of an organization. Organizational Citizenship Behavior is considered to be a discretionary behavior, which do not form a part of job description and it is performed by employees on their own choice and Organizational Fairness is an idea that action or decisions are morally right, which may be defined according to the ethics, religion, fairness, equity, or law. The main objective of the study was to find out the impact of leadership behavior on Organizational Citizenship Behavior and to extract the major determinants leading to organizational fairness. The data was gathered through a well structured questionnaire and non parametric tests were used to test the significance of the results. Exploratory factor analysis was used to extract the factors relating to the organizational fairness. It was found that the employees exhibited a decent citizenship behavior and perceived positively towards organizational fairness. Further it was found that the leadership behavior had a significant impact on the organization citizenship behavior in some respects and did not have an impact on the other