Effect of leader-member exchange, psychological empowerment, workplace spirituality towards transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior among nurses

Abstract

Transformational leadership, leader-member exchange (LMX), workplace spirituality and psychological empowerment have been given the credit of bringing success to organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in an organization. Thusly, this research will investigate the role of transformational leadership on OCB especially within the context of Malaysia’s nurses. Furthermore, it is expected that the efficient role of transformational leadership relies on LMX on interaction to OCB. Additionally, the presence of workplace spirituality as a moderator among subordinate may affect relationship between LMX and OCB. Lastly, the effect of psychological empowerment as a moderator between transformational leadership and OCB also will be studied. The research method will be conducted as a cross-sectional study which the data will be collected by using questionnairebased survey. Transformational leadership will be measured by adapted from Multiple Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) by Bass (1985), OCB from Organ (1988), LMX adapted from LMX-7 by Graen and Uhl-Bien (1995), workplace spirituality from Milliman et al., (2003) and psychological empowerment will be adapted from Spreitzer (1995). The total population of this research is 5084 and a minimum sample size is 1396. The hospitals will be divided into five zone clusters. The fishbowl technique and systematic sampling design will be applied. The data will be analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).