How a Despotic Project Manager Jeopardizes Project Success: The Role of Project Team Members’ Emotional Exhaustion and Emotional Intelligence

IF 5.1 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Project Management Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-29 DOI:10.1177/87569728221145891

Khurram Shahzad, Rimsha Iqbal, Shazia Nauman, Raheela Shahzadi, Adeel Luqman

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Abstract

Drawing on conservation of resources theory, our study investigates whether a project manager’s despotic leadership style influences project success directly and indirectly through the underlying mechanism of project team members’ emotional exhaustion. Additionally, the moderating role of project team members’ emotional intelligence (EI) between despotic leadership and emotional exhaustion is also examined. Data were collected from the project-based employees working in telecommunications organizations (n = 250) using a time-lagged survey in three waves. The result indicates that despotic leadership has a significant negative influence on project success, and emotional exhaustion partially mediates this relationship. Moreover, conforming to a rare line of inquiry that there is a dark side to being emotionally intelligent, our findings show that the effect of despotic leadership style on emotional exhaustion is stronger when a project team member is highly emotionally intelligent. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.

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专制的项目经理如何危及项目成功:项目团队成员情绪耗竭和情商的作用

本文利用资源守恒理论，探讨了项目经理的专制领导方式是否通过项目团队成员情绪耗竭的潜在机制直接或间接影响项目成功。此外，研究还考察了项目团队成员情绪智力在专制领导与情绪耗竭之间的调节作用。数据是从电信组织的项目型员工(n = 250)中收集的，采用三波时间滞后调查。结果表明，专制领导对项目成功有显著的负向影响，情绪耗竭在此关系中起部分中介作用。此外，我们的研究结果表明，当一个项目团队成员高情商时，专制领导风格对情绪耗竭的影响更大，这与一项罕见的调查结果一致，即高情商也有阴暗面。我们讨论了这些发现的理论和实践意义。

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Project Management Journal MANAGEMENT-

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9.30

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14.00%

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期刊介绍： Project Management Journal (PMJ) is the academic and research journal of the Project Management Institute and features state-of-the-art research, techniques, theories, and applications in project management. Projects represent a growing population of human activity in large, small, private, and public organizations. Projects are used to execute and sustain today's organizational activities. They play a fundamental role as the engine of tomorrow's innovation, value creation, and strategic change. However, projects often fail to deliver their promise. PMJ addresses these multiple challenges and opportunities by encouraging the development and application of novel theories, concepts, frameworks, research methods, and designs. PMJ embraces contributions both from within and beyond project management to augment and transform theory and practice.