Responsible leadership and project citizenship behavior: A cross-level investigation

Yuxin Yang; Jieying Huang; Pingping Wu; Xujiang Zheng; Han Lin; Shule Ji

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.960290

Responsible leadership and project citizenship behavior: A cross-level investigation

Front Psychol. 2022 Sep 2:13:960290. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.960290. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Yuxin Yang¹, Jieying Huang², Pingping Wu¹, Xujiang Zheng^{3

4}, Han Lin¹, Shule Ji¹

Affiliations

¹ Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Public Project Audit, School of Engineering Audit, Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing, China.
² McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States.
³ School of Law, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China.
⁴ Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China.

Abstract

Project citizenship behavior (PCB) has an important positive impact on project success. Researching how to promote PCB is an important issue in project management. Based on social learning theory and social cognitive theory, this paper adopted the method of questionnaire survey and hierarchical linear model (HLM) to analyze the collected data derived from the sample of Chinese construction enterprises and verified this hypothesis. The results show that responsible leadership has a significant positive effect on PCB, moral identity mediates this relationship, and collective moral sensitivity positively moderates this mediating effect. The findings of the study systematically and deeply reveal the intrinsic mechanism of the cross-level influence of responsible leadership on PCB, and provide new enlightenment for the practice of project management.

Keywords: collective moral sensitivity; construction project; moral identity; project citizenship behavior; responsible leadership.