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Leader Integrity and Employee Outcomes: Where Do They Collide?

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Advances in Human Factors, Business Management, Training and Education

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This study samples 270 employees from Ghana’s Civil Service to examine their perception of their leaders and the relative influence this leadership attribute has on their citizenship and unproductive behaviours at the workplace. The study finds that leader integrity is strongly related to the OCB of followers but has no significant relationship with their deviant behaviours. The study thus recommends that managers be mindful to demonstrate integrity in the search for positive employee outcomes. This study is the first to examine the relationship between these variables in an African context.

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  1. Department of Organisation and Human Resource Management, University of Ghana Business School, P.O. Box LG 78, Legon, Accra, Ghana

    Kwasi Dartey-Baah & Reginald Arthur

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  1. University of Vaasa , Vaasa, Finland

    Jussi Ilari Kantola

  2. Hungarian-Netherlands School of Edu man, University of Szeged Hungarian-Netherlands School of Edu man, Szeged, Hungary

    Tibor Barath

  3. Faculty of Technology and Maritime Scien, University College of Southeast Norway Faculty of Technology and Maritime Scien, Kongsberg, Norway

    Salman Nazir

  4. TiER1 Performance Solutions , Colorado Springs,, Colorado, USA

    Terence Andre

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Dartey-Baah, K., Arthur, R. (2017). Leader Integrity and Employee Outcomes: Where Do They Collide?. In: Kantola, J., Barath, T., Nazir, S., Andre, T. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management, Training and Education. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 498. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42070-7_10

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