Leader - Follower relationship quality in a global environment;Network attributes of leaders

We incorporate data from our network survey on a global corporation within a ‘leader - follower’ relationship quality framework. We operationalize relationship quality with measures from informal organizational networks, as a proxy for leader follower exchange relationships. The already established relationship between ‘leader - follower’ relationship quality and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors is further analyzed. We examine the effects of leader sponsorship on follower OCBs. Consequently we develop two new leader network measures: “affectiveness” and “universality”, or the extent to which a leader is affective and popular among affective and informal organizational networks at the local or the organizational level and test interaction effects with ‘leader - follower’ relationship quality. Finally we also incorporate the leader’s informal brokerage as an attribute that interacts with the relationship quality with the focal leader on the follower’s citizenship behaviors.