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Transformational Leadership and Its Relationship with Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Study of IT Companies in India

Luxmi Malodia¹ and Sudiksha Arora¹

First Published 5 May 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/09747621251329383

Article Information

Corresponding Author:

Sudiksha Arora, University Business School, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India.
Email: sudikshaarora101@gmail.com

¹University Business School, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

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Abstract

This research explores the role of transformational leadership and its relationship with organizational citizenship behavior. The Indian IT industry is the study’s primary emphasis. Eighty workers from the top 10 IT businesses in India provided the data. Accenture, TCS, Infosys, IBM Consulting, NTT Data, Cognizant, Capgemini, HCL Tech, Wipro, and Tech Mahindra are the IT organizations that were chosen for this research. “The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences” (SPSS) was used to analyse this data after it gathered it via Google Forms. According to this study’s findings, Indian IT industry workers exhibit high levels of corporate citizenship and transformational leadership. Organizational citizenship behavior and transformative leadership are significantly correlated. The three demographic variables (age, gender, and marital status) were studied, and the study concluded that age and gender have no significant relation with organizational citizenship behavior, and marital status has a negative correlation with organizational citizenship behavior.

Keywords

Transformational leadership, organizational citizenship behavior, demographic variables, age, gender, marital status

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