Investigate the relationship between leadership behaviours, organisational commitment, occupational stress and organisational citizenship behaviours in Vietnamese private business school libraries

PurposeThis paper examines the associations between leadership behaviours, organizational commitment, occupational stress and organisational citizenship behaviours (OCBs) at the Vietnamese private business school libraries. Another objective of this research is to explore the mediating role of organisational commitment and occupational stress on the connection between leadership behaviours and OCBs.Design/methodology/approachThe authors collected 294 staffs from various Vietnamese private business school libraries.FindingsThe findings confirm that leadership dimensions significantly influence OCBs, and organisational commitment plays a mediating role in the relationship between relationship-oriented leadership behaviour (ROL) and OCBs.Practical implicationsThe current result indicates that two types of leadership behaviour significantly affect employee citizen behaviours. Organisations should also distribute opportunities for workers to stick to citizenship behaviours by implementing organisational commitment interventions.Originality/valueThe obtained findings are a new exploration when no previous empirical literature has investigated the relationships among four constructs.