Effect of Chief Executive Officer’s Sustainable Leadership Styles on Organization Members’ Psychological Well-Being and Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Author - Please revise your manuscript with great attention as per reviewers suggestions. I wish you all the best in your academic and other careers.
Author Response
Response to Review Comments
Reviewer 1
1. Theoretical Background (correct/supplement)
1.1 Sustainable Leadership – basic theory/concept/characteristics etc. (add)
→ Added.
2. Research Methods/Methodology (correct/supplement)
2.1 Research model – basic theory (add)
→ Added basic theory that can support the research model.
2.2 Settings of Respondents
→ Corrected/supplemented with more details.
3. Discussion/Conclusion (correct/supplement)
3.1 Research Implications
→ Added and corrected/supplemented.
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Reviewer 2 Report
As a general, the paper wrote well, but the main thing that should be considered is to summarize the explanation by specific keywords. It doesn't need to be explained widely.
Author Response
Response to Review Comments
Reviewer 2
1. Summary of Keywords (reduced)
→ Keywords summarized and reduced.
※ All revisions are in blue text.
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Reviewer 3 Report
Theoretical Development and Framework:
- There are some concerns with the manuscript. I recommend that the author to conceptualize the notion of sustainable leadership more clearly. It is not clear why sustainable leadership comprises servant leadership, ethical leadership, and authentic leadership. How is it different from sustainable leadership from the ESG perspective? It also seems necessary to make apparent how sustainable leadership in this paper differs from other sustainable leadership in the literature. I recommend that the author looks into sustainable leadership literature to conceptualize sustainable leadership better. Include the subject matter experts of sustainable leadership, for example, Russell Reynold.
https://www.russellreynolds.com/insights/thought-leadership/esg-2-0-the-next-generation-of-leadership
- The manuscript seems to lack a clear theoretical underpinning. What is (are) the underlying theory(ies) used to support the research model?
- The introduction could also be expressed better by highlighting why it is important to investigate psychological well-being as a mediating mechanism in this context.
- The author needs to highlight the contributions of the study.
Methodological and Results:
- I have some issues regarding the methodology employed in the study. For example, the definition for mid-size and large size corporation need to be included. The sample includes ordinary workers. Who are they? Some useful demographic information is missing, such as CEO gender and employees’ organizational tenure.
- Please check the accuracy of the data presented in Table 2.
- Given that the author employed SmartPLS, the structural model and measurement model should be reported.
- How to minimize common method bias?
Implications / Contribution:
- One of the essential requirements is that a paper must make a clear contribution to the literature. I recommend that the author highlight a clear contribution of the study.
Author Response
Response to Review Comments
Reviewer 3
1. Theoretical Background
1.1 Sustainable Leadership – basic theory/concept/characteristics etc. (add)
→ Added.
1.2 Highlight the Differences from ESG
→ Differences from ESG emphasized and added.
1.3 ESG-Related (Add literature)
https://www.russellreynolds.com/insights/thought-leadership/esg-2-0-the-next-generationof-leadership
→ Added.
2. Research Model – basic theory (add)
→ Added basic theory that can support the research model.
3. Psychological Well-Being – reason for usage as a parameter (correct/supplement)
→ Added the reason for using psychological well-being as a parameter in the introduction section.
4. Research Methods/Methodology
4.1 Settings of Respondents
→ Corrected/supplemented with more details.
5. Empirical Analysis (Analysis Results)
5.1 Structural Model/Measurement Model (Indicate the values)
→ Values of the structural model and measurement model have been indicated.
5.2 Multicollinearity (Indicate the values)
→ Multicollinearity value indicated. (VIF)
6. Discussion/Conclusion (correct the/supplement with implications)
→ Corrected the/Supplemented with implications.
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※ We greatly appreciate the reviewer for providing excellent recommendations.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Author - in my last review I have asked you to first and foremost you need to extensively edit English language and style, considerably cut back on the number of sources you cite and many other easy-to-be-implemented suggestions and I realized you have not addressed them. There were a number of improvements you must make and you were given the precious time to improve you paper. I would like to emphasize that unless you work through reveiwers suggestions thoroughly, you will not give them the opportunity to accept the paper.
I want to draw your attention to some of the important issues that struck my eyes: you refer to individual participants of your study as "effective samples." It is not a respectful way of addressing people. You need to spend some time reading literature on how to write an effective research paper and reviewing other published peer-reviewed papers in well-established journals to apply the knwoledge and current recommendation into your own work. For example, currently the demographic information you provide in Table 2 is not so vitally important to be presented in a table that takes so much space. Some of the data presented in Table 2 may be shortly discribed in one, two sentences. I noticed you provide information about salary levels of the respondents from Korea. This information shall be deleted as it does not contribute in any way into the analysis and discussion. The abstract is not compelling; contributions are missing both in the abstract and in the Discussion part.There are still very many "little" improvements that shall be done for the paper to look become a mature manuscript. Make sure you do a good job this time around. With best regards - Reviewer
Author Response
1. English corrections
→ Revisions and corrections to the English in the manuscript were conducted by a native speaker with a master’s and doctoral degrees in business administration.
→ I submit an “English Editing Certificate” as an attachment.
2. Data were collected from 649 effective samples
→ Data were obtained from 649 adult employees. (revision)
3. Unnecessary citations deleted (amount significantly reduced)
→ All unnecessary citations (references) have been deleted.
→ Unnecessary references, especially in the introduction/theoretical background/hypothesis sections, have been deleted.
→ 44 references (deleted)
※ Base theory (excluded)
4. Table 2 deleted (provided in text)
→ The table was not deleted since the other two reviewers and an editor commented on the demographic characteristics to be specified.
5. Abstract (implications added)
→ Implications have been added to the “Abstract.”
6. Discussion (implications added)
→ More implications have been added to the “Discussion.”
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Reviewer 3 Report
I do not see how the revised version of the manuscript has addressed the concerns. The conceptualization of the notion of sustainable leadership is not clear. It is not clear why sustainable leadership comprises servant leadership, ethical leadership, and authentic leadership. These three leadership styles do not align with the definition of sustainable leadership. Sustainable leadership is when leaders of businesses (often CEOs) manage companies with the environment, society, and long-term sustainable development goals in mind.
The author employed ESG as the underlying theory of the research framework. I reckon ESG may not be appropriate to explain the research model. What is (are) the underlying theory(ies) to support the link between the leadership styles and wellbeing and OCB?
Author Response
1. Sustainable leadership style (revision of the foundational theory)
→ As in the comments, the manuscript has been drastically revised by deriving a total of four suitable foundational theories.
(1) Situational Theory
i) Situational Leadership Theory
* Sustainable leadership → Utilization/application from the path of organizational citizenship behavior to the underlying theory
ii) Contingency Approach of Leadership
* Sustainable leadership → Utilization/application from the path of organizational citizenship behavior to the underlying theory
(2) Bottom-up Spillover Theory
* Sustainable leadership → psychological well-being → Utilized/applied from the path of organizational citizenship behavior to the underlying theory
(3) Prosocial Behaviors
* Utilization/application as the foundational theory of organizational citizenship behavior in this study
2. Research model (foundational theories added)
→ The manuscript has been revised by deriving a total of four foundational theories that fit the research model of this study.
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Round 3
Reviewer 1 Report
I have no further comments
Author Response
Response to Reviewer Comments
1. Reasons for including servant leadership, ethical leadership, and authentic leadership in sustainable leadership style?
In other words, what is the basis for the three leaderships to meet (contribute to) the purpose of sustainable leadership?
→ Related information was specified in “2. Literature Review (2.1. Base Theory).”
2. Reasons for excluding transformational leadership from sustainable leadership style?
→ Relevant information was specified in “2. Literature Review (2.1. Base Theory).”
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