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Accountability to a Servant Leader and OCB: The Role of Follower Integrity

Accountability to a Servant Leader and OCB: The Role of Follower Integrity
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Author(s): Wallace A. Williams Jr. (Texas A&M University – Commerce, USA), Christopher Thomas (University of Mississippi, USA), Anthony P. Ammeter (University of Mississippi, USA), Mario Hayek (Texas A&M University – Commerce, USA)and Milorad M. Novicevic (University of Mississippi, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 23
Source title: Servant Leadership: Research and Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Raj Selladurai (Indiana University Northwest, USA)and Shawn Carraher (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5840-0.ch001

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Abstract

Research suggests that follower accountability can be influenced by both internal and external mechanisms. This chapter examines how followers' commitment to their own moral principles (internal) may be congruent, or in conflict, with a servant leader's principles (external), and thus have a positive or negative interactive effect on the followers' accountability to the leader. Furthermore, the authors examine how accountability to the leader may manifest itself through extra-role behaviors towards others within the organization. The empirical findings of this study show that when follower integrity is low, accountability can still be increased in the presence of a servant leader.

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