Linking EthicalLleadership to Extra-Role Behaviours: Insights from Temporal Organizations

Abstract

The study aims to explore the relationship between ethical leadership and employees’ project citizenship behaviour (PCB) through the mediating role of communal orientation and moderating role of harmonious work passion. To test the hypothesized nexuses, time-lagged data were collected from 353 employees working in various project-based organizations. AMOS and Hayes' PROCESS macro were employed to analyze the proposed associations. Study findings provide empirical evidence for the direct and indirect association between ethical leadership and PCB via communal orientations. Results also indicate that employees' harmonious work passion further pronounces the relationship between ethical leadership and PCB. Despite the theoretical relevance of ethical leadership for improving employees’ PCB, there is a surprising paucity of evidence about the ethical leadership-PCB link. Specifically, no study has examined the direct and indirect association between ethical leadership and project citizenship behavior. We contributed to filling this gap and bringing the contextual and dispositional antecedents of PCB to the fore.