Purpose This study endeavours to examine the impact of an inclusive climate on organizational citizenship behaviours at the workplace. The study also explores how the underlying mechanisms, namely, allyship and psychological well-being, impact this relationship. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through survey method via a structured questionnaire administered to management students with work experience across various industries. The sample comprised of 360 participants. AMOS was used to conduct confirmatory factor analysis and PROCESS (Hayes, 2015) for testing the hypothesized model. Findings The findings reveal that allyship mediates the relationship between inclusive climate and psychological well-being, and psychological well-being, in turn, mediates the relationship between inclusive climate and organizational citizenship behaviours. These results suggest a sequential mediation effect, where the presence of an inclusive climate fosters allyship, which enhances psychological well-being, ultimately leading to higher levels of organizational citizenship behaviours among employees. Originality/value There is a dearth of studies exploring the role of allyship as a mediator and no study in our knowledge studies its impact along with psychological well-being through self-determination theory lens on discretionary behaviours.
Lyndon et al. (Fri,) studied this question.