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Woinshet Mengistu, Pazstor Szabolch, Marsai Viktor, Tariku Jebena: Responsible Leadership
and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Mediation Role of Employees CSR Perception

Future studies should examine how organizational citizenship behavior is influenced
by responsible leadership as determined by leaders’ evaluations. Third, in our analysis
we focused the manufacturing industries, particularly regarding the Ethiopian Foreign
business investment. It would be beneficial to investigate the same issue in different
organizational environments to better understand the connection. Fourth as we
examined this relationship solely within Ethiopian context, it limits the ability to
generalize. Future researches might explore the relationships in other culture to
broaden the findings. Fifth, the present research treats responsible leadership as
a combined variable and did not analyze the impact of individual aspects of
responsible leadership on organizational citizenship behavior. Future researchers
should assess how each aspect of responsible leadership affects organizational
citizenship behaviour for clearer insights. Finally, we examined employees’
perceptions of corporate social responsibility as a mediator between responsible
leadership and OCB. Other researchers might also investigate the mediation role of
employees’ perceptions of corporate social responsibility between various leadership
styles and organizational citizenship behaviour.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are grateful to the Addis Ababa University community and Ethiopian Civil
Service University for their invaluable assistance in providing contact details and
support for this study. We are especially grateful to the study participants for their
time and commitment. We appreciate the insightful feedback and recommendations
provided by the anonymous reviewers.

Statement of Disclosure
No possible conflicts of interest were disclosed by the author or authors.
Finances
Addis Ababa University and Dar Al-Fiker Foundation supported the study financially.

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