Humble Leadership and Teacher Behavior Outcomes: Team Climate as a Bridge to Strengthen Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Reduce Withdrawal Behavior – A Conceptual Analysis

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10.2991/978-94-6239-626-5_73How to use a DOI?

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Humble Leadership; Team Climate; Organizational Citizenship Behavior; Withdrawal Behavior; Conceptual Analysis; Teacher Behavior

Abstract

This conceptual study examines the mediating role of team climate in the relationship between humble leadership, organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), and withdrawal behavior among elementary school teachers. Guided by SIP and SET, this paper consolidates empirical results from pertinent studies to develop an integrated conceptual model. While prior work has uniformly found that humble leadership is related to OCB and withdrawal behavior, a lack of empirical consistency underscores the potential for alternative mechanisms by which leader behavior can influence different types of behavioral outcomes. We posit that team climate is a key mediator of this theoretical divide. This conceptual analysis suggests that humble leadership fosters a supportive and trusting team climate, which in turn increases teachers’ voluntary contributions and reduces their tendency to disengage from work. The originality of this study lies in positioning team climate as an important explanatory mechanism that has not been comprehensively explored in the field of educational leadership. From a practical perspective this evidence highlights the need to promote servant leadership behaviour and for the development of a team climate in schools, in order that teacher engagement is enhanced and dysfunctional behaviour minimised. It is assumed that this framework will provide a foundation for replication through empirical testing using quantitative method such as PLS-SEM to test the mediating effects suggested.

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AU  - Lili Suryani Rina
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TI  - Humble Leadership and Teacher Behavior Outcomes: Team Climate as a Bridge to Strengthen Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Reduce Withdrawal Behavior – A Conceptual Analysis
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Business, Economic, and Social Sustainability (ICOBES 2025)
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