The impact of paternalistic leadership on developing organizational citizenship behavior : establishing a leadership model for algerian organizations

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The aim of this study is to identify the impact of paternalistic leadership on organizational citizenship behavior and establishing a leadership model for the Algerian Organizations.

The study was based on the "Cheng Chou & Farh" paternalistic leadership scale to achieve its objectives which was widely used in foreign studies in East Asia.

Concerning the organizational citizenship behavior, a new scale has been built using theoretical literature.

After testing the hypotheses, the study found that there is a statistical significant impact of paternalistic leadership on the organizational citizenship behavior on the employees of University Hospital Center (UHC) of Batna-Algeria.