Linking Servant Leadership with Organizational Citizenship Behavior through Trust: An Embryonic Structural Modelling Approach

The objective of the present study is to examine the relationship between servant leadership and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) along with mediating effect of trust on servant leadership and OCB relationship. The Data was collected through selfadministered questionnaire from 345 respondents of four public sector universities in Pakistan. The embryonic structural equation modelling method was used for data analysis. 274 European Journal of Social Sciences Volume 39 Issue 2 (July, 2013) Results of investigation confirmed the significant positive relationship between servant leadership and organizational citizenship behavior, and that trust partially mediates positively in servant leadership and OCB link. First limitation of the present research is, of cross sectional data. Secondly as the study is based on public sector universities data, therefore, it limits the generalization of its findings to private sector universities. Thirdly all the respondents of the study were full time faculty members; hence, the results may not be relevant to contingent employees. The findings contribute to a better understanding of the servant leadership – OCB link, and to promote OCB through collectivist culture of Pakistan. The present study is perhaps the first to employ embryonic structural equation modelling method to investigate the servant leadership – OCB relationship along with mediating effect of trust in Pakistan.