EFFECT OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP OF SCHOOL HEADS ON TEACHERS’ WITHDRAWAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS: CONFIRMING THE MEDIATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT

Abstract

This study explored school teachers’ perception about their heads’ authentic
leadership, their psychological empowerment, withdrawal behavior and
organizational citizenship behavior. It also attempted to measure the
correlation among all variables understudy and the mediation of
psychological empowerment in the association of authentic leadership of
heads and teachers’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and
withdrawal behavior. A self-developed tool was used for data collection
from a sample of 360 public sector school teachers at secondary level. The
data was analyzed through t test, Pearson r, multiple regression and process
Macro. The findings revealed that teachers rated their heads as high on
authentic leadership scale. They rated themselves high on OCB and
psychological empowerment scales and low on withdrawal behavior scale.
There was significant positive relationship among all variables. The study
also revealed effect of authentic leadership behavior on psychological
empowerment, and OCBs and inverse effect on withdrawal behavior. The
mediating effect of teachers’ psychological empowerment in relationship between authentic leadership and teachers’ OCBs was confirmed but same
was not the case with withdrawal behavior