Leadership Proactive Personality Influence On Organizational Citizenship Behavior Of : The Role Of Employee’s Attribution And Leadership Vision

In recent years, management of innovation and strategic in the field of transformation tendency has been the focus of attention. Drawing from attribution theory of leadership, we conceptualize team member-attribution(team member-attributed performance promotion motives and team member-attributed injury initiation motives) as a mediator and leadership vision as a contextual moderator for exploring the role of leadership proactive personality in organizational citizenship behavior. Data from a sample of 241 Chinese employees were used to examine the hypothesized moderated mediation models. Results showed that:(1) leadership proactive personality had a significant positive effect on OCB;(2)leadership proactive personality was associated with team members’ attributions for the motives behind their own supervisors’ supervision(performance-promotion and injury-initiation motives); in turn, the team members’ attributions for the motives behind their own supervisors’ supervision was associated with organizational citizenship behaviors;(3) additionally, the relationship between leadership proactive personality and organizational citizenship behavior was positively moderated by leadership vision. Implications for the attribution theory of leadership and practice are discussed.