Examining the relationship between empathetic leadership and organizational citizenship behavior in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry: the roles of altruistic attitude and caring ethical climate

Based on survey data, this study can contribute to the understanding of empathetic leadership in architecture, engineering, and construction industry by verifying and extending the emotion-cognition process in the Chinese context. They showed that altruism facilitated the effectiveness of empathetic leadership and that caring climate could amplify the effect on employees' organizational citizenship behavior. The results also contribute to organizational citizenship behavior literature by revealing the configurational effects of interactions among empathetic leader, team environment and individuals.