The Role of Ethical Leadership in Organizational Citizenship Behavior by Mediating Organizational Justice and Organizational Commitment

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of ethical leadership in organizational citizenship behavior by mediating organizational justice and organizational commitment. The study population was all teachers in Kazeroon city, who were selected by simple random sampling and based on Cochran formula with a sample size of 537 people. The research method is quantitative, descriptive and correlational studies and especially structural equation modeling. From the Kalshun et al. Ethical Leadership Questionnaire (2011); Niehoff & Moorman's Organizational Justice (1993); Allen & Meyer's Organizational Commitment (1990) and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Questionnaire of Podaskev, Mackenzie-Moren & Fitter (1990) were used. The validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis and reliability through Cronbach's alpha for ethical leadership 0.93, organizational justice 0.91, organizational commitment 0.90, organizational citizenship behavior 0.95, respectively. Descriptive (center and dispersion indices) and inferential (confirmatory factor analysis and confirmatory path analysis) techniques were used for data analysis using lisrel software. The results showed that the variables of ethical leadership, organizational justice and organizational commitment had a direct, positive and significant effect at the level of 0.05 on organizational citizenship behavior; Ethical leadership mediated by justice and organizational commitment has an indirect, positive, and significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior. The variables of ethical leadership, organizational justice and organizational commitment were able to explain 33% of the variance of organizational citizenship behavior variable, which according to T value (6/11), the explained variance is significant at the level of 0.05.