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Journal of Management Sciences - Volume 6, Issue 1 2019
By Syed Muhammad Javed Iqbal, Muhammad Shahid Nawaz, Sulaman Hafeez Siddiqui, Muhammad Kashif Imran
10.20547/jms.2014.1906106
Keywords: Project Leadership, Project Success, Project Teamwork, Transformational Leadership, Higher Education Commission
It is evident from the existing research that transformational leaders play a vital role in project success, but little is known about the channels that elaborate on this effect. To unveil one of these channels, this study supposed project teamwork as the mediator between transformational leadership and project success. To test the stated empirical relationship, data were obtained from 125 project managers working on various projects of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan. The results revealed that project teamwork partially mediates the relationship between project leadership and project success. The study has also discussed valuable implications including theoretical, practical and managerial.