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Reducing employees’ turnover intention through Hr-induced organizational citizenship behaviour: Leader-member exchange as the mediator

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  • YU GHEE WEE

    (Universiti Malaysia Kelantan)

  • KAMARUL ZAMAN AHMAD

    (Abu Dhabi University)

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This study examines the possibility of inducing organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) through human resource (HR) philosophy and high involvement HR practices administered at the workplace. Leader-member exchange (LMX), a basis of relational infrastructure, is posited to be a potential mediator. Data was collected from hotel frontline employees, tested and analyzed through structural equation modeling. Findings show that HR philosophy drives the formulation of the bundles of high involvement human resource practices and such philosophy contribute to employees’ willingness in exhibiting organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) directed at individuals (OCBI) as well as organizations (OCBO) as a whole. High involvement HR practices, however, do not elicit OCB but these practices are significantly related to LMX, a new theoretical insight which should invite future research. Although exchanges between supervisors and subordinates are shown to have influences on employees’ willingness in performing OCB, LMX does not, however, mediate the relationship between high involvement HR practices and OCB. Overall, hotel frontline employees participated in this study exhibit more OCBO, rather than OCBI; and such behavior reduce their intention to leave. Both theoretical and practical implications as well as avenues for future research are discussed.

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  • Yu Ghee Wee & Kamarul Zaman Ahmad, 2011. "Reducing employees’ turnover intention through Hr-induced organizational citizenship behaviour: Leader-member exchange as the mediator," International Journal of Business and Social Research, LAR Center Press, vol. 1(1), pages 70-93, December.
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