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Look up, look around: Is there anything different about team-level OCB in China?

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  • Mo, Shenjiang
  • Wang, Zhongming
  • Akrivou, Kleio
  • Booth, Simon A

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Ethical leadership has been widely identified as the key variable in enhancing team-level organizational citizenship behavior (team-level OCB) in western economic and business contexts. This is challenged by empirical evidence in China and findings of this study. Our study examined the relationship between ethical leadership, organizational ethical context (ethical culture and corporate ethical values) and team-level OCB. Team-level data has been collected from 57 functional teams in 57 firms operating in China. The findings suggest that although ethical leadership is positively associated with team-level OCB, ethical context positively moderates the relationship between ethical leadership and team-level OCB. The higher ethical context is found to be, the greater is the (positive) effects of ethical leadership on team-level OCB and the opposite holds true when ethical context is low. Key implications are discussed on the role of contextual ethics for team-level OCB, while managerial implications include how non-Chinese firms could improve team-level OCB in the Chinese business context.

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  • Mo, Shenjiang & Wang, Zhongming & Akrivou, Kleio & Booth, Simon A, 2012. "Look up, look around: Is there anything different about team-level OCB in China?," Journal of Management & Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 18(6), pages 818-832, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jomorg:v:18:y:2012:i:06:p:818-832_00
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    1. Shenjiang Mo & Junqi Shi, 2017. "Linking Ethical Leadership to Employee Burnout, Workplace Deviance and Performance: Testing the Mediating Roles of Trust in Leader and Surface Acting," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 144(2), pages 293-303, August.
    2. Shenjiang Mo & Junqi Shi, 2018. "The Voice Link: A Moderated Mediation Model of How Ethical Leadership Affects Individual Task Performance," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 152(1), pages 91-101, September.
    3. Akanksha Bedi & Can M. Alpaslan & Sandy Green, 2016. "A Meta-analytic Review of Ethical Leadership Outcomes and Moderators," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 139(3), pages 517-536, December.
    4. Muhammad Arshad & Ghulam Abid & Francoise Venezia Contreras Torres, 2021. "Impact of prosocial motivation on organizational citizenship behavior: the mediating role of ethical leadership and leader–member exchange," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 55(1), pages 133-150, February.

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