Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of authentic leadership on organizational
citizenship behavior of employees in Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Academy. As being the
leading airlines in Africa, it is essential to have a leadership that engages employees that have
willingness to go beyond their requirements’, with the intention of continues competition and
to maintain its quality service in this dynamic aviation industry. Currently employees in the
Aviation academy are being faced with a demanding work environment which includes a lack
of high level of OCB. This necessitated the need to determine whether authentic leadership
ultimately leads to extra-role behaviors. In order to meet the objectives of the study,
descriptive research design was used and from, the total populations of the study 367
management and non-management employees, who were working at Ethiopian Airlines
aviation academy of 5 schools and supporting staff. The study considered 173 nonmanagement and 36 management employees working at headquarters that were believed to be
representative of the whole using a non-probability sampling method. However, the study did
not consider employees who are working abroad and regional stations. For data collection
two different standard questioners were used to assess the variables. The data obtained were
analyzed by descriptive statistics (such as mean, standard deviation) and Correlation between
Authentic leadership styles and OCB was calculated by applying Pearson coefficient. In
addition to measure the effect of the AL on the OCB of respondents Linear Regression was
used. The results indicated that authentic leadership has a strong positive significance on
OCB and on all the five dimensions of OCB. The main findings suggest that Ethiopian aviation
academy as an institution would benefit if leaders are encouraged to be more authentic as this
might result in high level of employee engaged in OCB in the organization. As a result,
employees can be more likely to work extra miles than what their work requires without
additional payment.
