Does Happiness at Work and Empowering Leadership Contribute to Employee Organizational Citizenship Behaviour During Pandemic COVID-19?

Authors

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  • Guntur Putra Aditiya Universitas Mercu Buana, Indonesia
  • Amy Mardhatillah Universitas Mercu Buana, Indonesia

Keywords:

Empowering leadership, Happiness at work, Organizational citizenship Behaviour

Abstract

This study investigates the relationship between happiness at work and empowering leadership in promoting organisational citizenship behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. One hundred seventy-one employees consisting of 68 government employees and 103 private company employees participated in this study. Happiness at work was measured by Subjective Happiness Scale developed by Alarcon (2006), empowering leadership was measured by a scale developed by Ahearne et al. (2005), and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) during pandemic COVID-19 was measured by a scale adopted from Smith et al. (1983). Regression analysis was used to answer the research questions. Results found that there is a significant relationship between happiness at work and empowering leadership with OCB simultaneously. The role of happiness at work is higher than empowering leadership in predicting OCB among employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. The implication of the present study sheds light on the importance of promoting happiness at work, especially on creating positive life meaning and ensuring the implementation of empowering leadership leads to a better OCB among employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author Biographies

Guntur Putra Aditiya, Universitas Mercu Buana, Indonesia

Faculty of Psychology

Amy Mardhatillah , Universitas Mercu Buana, Indonesia

Faculty of Psychology

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Published

08-12-2021