Linking ethical leadership to extra-role behaviors: The roles of communal orientation and harmonious work passion

The current study aims to investigate the relationship between ethical leadership and employees' project citizenship behavior (PCB) in the construction industry, specifically through the mediating role of communal orientation and the moderating role of harmonious work passion. To appraise the hypothesized nexuses, timelagged data were collected from 353 employees working in six construction organizations before administering the AMOS 24 and Hayes' PROCESS macro technique to analyze the proposed associations. The study findings provided empirical evidence for the direct association between ethical leadership and the PCB and the subsequent indirect linkage through the mediating effect of communal orientation. The results also demonstrated that employees' harmonious work passion significantly moderated the relationship between ethical leadership and the PCB. The theoretical importance of the current study findings assisted in closing the knowledge gap by unveiling the contextual and dispositional PCB antecedents. The study findings offer insight into effective managerial interventions, for policymakers and construction industry managers, to foster PCB and maintain a strong foothold in the hyper-competitive marketplace.