Impact of Paternalistic Leadership on Higher Education Institutes Effectiveness: Mediating Role of Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Abstract

The study has aimed at examining the impact of organizational citizenship behavior of university teachers as a possible mediator between paternalistic leadership style of supervisors and overall effectiveness of the educational institute. Since, Pakistan is a developing county, and to advance towards a developed country, education needs to be in major and vital focus. Top 10 universities, chosen from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan’s current list, were investigated. Pal Scale was distributed to the faculty members of the universities (N=322), reporting about their supervisor’s leadership style. Moreover, employees were told to address about their extra-role behavior, i.e. organizational citizenship behavior, by using the scale developed by Welbourne, Johnson and Erez (1996). In addition to this, employees evaluated the overall effectiveness by using the organizational effectiveness scale for Higher Education Institutes of Kwan and Walker. This investigation supported the substantial and significant impact of organizational citizenship behavior of the relationship between paternalistic leadership and effectiveness of higher education institutes. Moreover, direct relationship among variables is also found. Thus, the supervisors must recognize, foster and realize the importance of paternalistic leadership as this may eventually influence organizational citizenship behavior and effectiveness of higher education institutes.