This study was conducted to empirically test how follower's organizational citizenship behavior is influenced by authentic leadership mediated by psychological empowerment. This study provides in depth understanding of the relationship between leadership styles and follower's behavior and its strong linkages with psychological empowerment of employees by developing an appropriate research design. Using a quantitative approach, a cross sectional research design was employed to examine the association between Authentic Leadership and organizational citizenship behavior mediated by psychological empowerment. The data was collected from the 200 employees of the textile sector to conduct a research analysis. Reliability analysis, descriptive statistics, factor analysis, Pearson’s correlation and regression were applied to test the formulated hypothesis. The results revealed a statically significant relationship among all the variables proposed for this research study. The results of this research study supported the structural model where organizational citizenship behavior is strongly influenced by authentic leadership mediated by psychological empowerment. The result suggested that authentic leadership behavior should be encouraged in all organizational structures to increase the psychological empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior among employees. As far as practical perspective is concerned, it will be helpful for organizations especially in Pakistan where top-down hierarchical control is prevailing, to shift from control to empowerment by implementing authentic leadership styles to foster the organizational citizenship behavior through the linkage of psychological empowerment.
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