Linking Leaders' Political Skill and Ethical Leadership to Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Roles of Self-Efficacy, Respect, and Leader-Member Exchange

The present study aims to analyze the relationship between the political skill of leaders, ethical leadership, and employees' attitude and behavior. Ethical leaders and their political skill may affect employees' attitude as well as the close relationship between leaders and employees. In turn, an ethical leadership will positively impact organization. This study used a questionnaire and was conducted in local government offices in Klaten and Surakarta, Indonesia. Out of 330 distributed questionnaires, 309 were returned, but only 300 questionnaires were properly filled and fit to be used in the study. The results showed that leader political skill positively affected ethical leadership. Also, the present study found that ethical leadership affected employees' organizational citizenship behavior through leader-member exchange and self-efficacy. The results of the study indicate that high-quality leader-member exchange may affect the managerial effectiveness to motivate and encourage employees to show organizational citizenship behavior.