The purpose of this research attempts to investigate the relationship among organizational culture, transformational leadership style, job attitude, and organizational citizenship behavior in samples of manufacturers that located at Tainan Technology Industrial Park. Questionnaire survey was used as a major method to this study. A total of 500 surveys were sent out, 312 effective samples were collected from targeted respondents and their superiors. The questionnaire retrieve rate is 62.4%.
The results support that organizational culture is positively and significantly related to both transformational leadership style and job attitude. Also, organizational culture has a powerfully direct influence on job attitude than transformational leadership style does. Transformational leadership style reflects directly a great impact on organizational citizenship behavior than organizational culture does. Meanwhile, Organizational culture has stronger indirect effects on organizational citizenship behavior via mediating variable job attitude. Also transformational leadership style affects much on organizational citizenship behavior through mediator job attitude than direct influence of transformational leadership.

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