Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Leveraging effects on Transformational Leaders' Emotional Intelligence

Abstract

Organizations are trying to enhance the pe1fonnance of the employees along with encouraging organizational citizenship behavior (which is essential to the wellbeing of the organization) in work environment. Leaders can transfix vision of the future of an organization through preparing a model consistent with that vision. This insight may be facilitated through a higher level of emotional awareness and sensitivity. In Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) employees demonstrate greater role performance when they feel a strong association to their organization, (Van Dyne, Graham, & Dienesch, 1994). Organizational Citizenship Behaviour has shownn by the employees likely to the intrinsically motivated where leaders' emotional intelligence will play imperative role. Present paper is an attempt to understand the concept of OCB and its leveraging effects on transformational leader's emotional intelligence.