Gender Equality on Spiritual Leadership Mechanism to Influence Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Indonesia
Willson Gustiawan
Padang State Polytechnic
Abstract
Perception difference between male and female employees often escapes from researchers attention, since such diversity is believed plays an important role and greatly influences leaders and followers behavior, and in turn affects organizational outcomes. This study aims to verify the spiritual leadership model using 246 Indonesia employees and to reveal whether there is any difference perception between male and female employees on spiritual leadership mechanism. There was dissagreement on gender equality in organization, whether employees are equal or different on their perception in organizational behavior. This study is advocated to prove where it should stand for. Quantitative method process is used to verify the spiritual leadership model. The results show that the research variables are reliable and valid. After simplifying research construcs into spiritual leadership, spiritual well-being and organizational citizenship behavior, the whole model reaches its model goodness of fit and all hypotheses are verified. These results confirm the perspective of spiritual leadership and generalization of the theory to Indonesia setting. And, there is no different perception between male and female employees on spiritual leadership mechanism; gender has no significant effect and thus gender equality exists on the model.
Keywords: spiritual leadership theory, Indonesia, gender equality, organizational citizenship behavior
Topic: Islamic Management and Leadership