The Role of Ethical Leadership & Proactive Personality on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: Mediating Role of Positive & Negative Emotions

Background: Regarding the increasing global competition and uncertainty in today's world, employee dynamism is becoming an essential requirement for new organizations. The aim of this study is to evaluate the role of ethical leadership and proactive personality on organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) by mediating role of employees' emotions. Method: The research method is descriptive-correlation study. The statistical population of the study includes the staff of Kermanshah Petrochemical Urea and Ammonia Company with 470 people, and in the sampling process using Morgan table, a sample of 212 people were selected. The sampling method in this study is a stratified random sampling. For collecting data, five standard questionnaires of ethical leadership, proactive personality, positive emotions, negative emotions and OCBs were used. Data were analyzed through SPSS and Smart PLS2 software. Results: The results of the research showed that the correlation between ethical leadership with OCBs and positive emotions were meaningful and positive and the correlation between ethical leadership and negative emotions is significantly negative. The relationship between proactive personality with OCBs and positive emotions is not meaningful. Conclusion: Ethical leadership also affects employees' emotions. Through emotions, ethical leadership affects OCBs. Employees' proactive personality does not affect OCBs through positive emotions, while this proactive personality influences OCBs through negative emotions.