Common Leadership Practices and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A study of North West Region Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation

This study aims to examine the most common leadership styles practiced in the corporation as well as to investigate the relationship between leadership behavior and organizational citizenship behavior. First, five zones were clustered and three zones were selected through simple random sample. Descriptive statistics were employed to investigate the most common leadership styles practiced in the corporation. To examine the relationship between the two constructs, Pearson's correlation method was applied. All study samples (359) were planned to collect out of 860 employees. However, only 347 questionnaires were distributed, finally, after all the screening process and the elimination of outliers, only 210 questionnaires were used to analyze data. The data were analyzed by using SPSS version 21 and the goodness of fit of the model was tested by using AMOS software. The literature suggest that the value greater than 0.90 exhibits a good fit for the model so that for this study i.e., comparative fit index, Normed Fit Index, Relative Fit Index, Incremental Fit Index and Tucker-Lewis index was applied. All fit indexes show a good fit which was greater than.90. The Pearson product moment result indicated that transformational and transactional leaderships were weak but statistically significant relationship with organizational citizenship behavior (r=.166, p<.01; r=.160, p<.05) respectively.