<b>Relationship between Perceived Wisdom and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour in Clergy in Faith Based Organisations in Kenya</b>

Organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) is important in faith-based organisations because voluntary participation, consideration interpersonal conduct and conscientious effort can support institutional functioning beyond formal role requirements. This study examined the association between clergy perceptions of leadership wisdom and their ratings of the same leaders’ citizenship-related behaviour in National Council of Churches of Kenya member churches. Servant Leadership Theory provided the primary theoretical anchor, while Social Exchange Theory was used as an interpretive perspective and is not presented as a tested mechanism. A positivist, cross-sectional descriptive correlational design was adopted. From a target population of 1,603 clergy, 320 respondents were selected thorough proportional stratified random sampling and 303 usable questionnaires were returned. Perceived leadership wisdom was assessed using context-adapted items covering strategic shared vision, alertness to organisational conditions, and inspiration, foresight and intuition. The Wisdom items recorded a high overall average item mean of 4.43. Pearson correlation showed a statistically significant moderate positive association between perceived leadership wisdom and the leader-rated citizenship behaviour composite (r=.466,p<.001). Simple linear regression accounted for 21.7% of the variance in the leader-rated citizenship behaviour score. The findings indicate association rather than causation and should be interpreted in view of the fact that both constructs were rated by the same respondents about the same leaders at the same point in time, creating a structural common-method conditions. The study recommends longitudinal, multi-source and constructive- validation research before leadership-development interventions is treated as mechanism for improving citizenship -related behaviour.