Does Leadership Matters for Project Success? A Mediated Moderation Approach

Abstract

The primary role of a leader is to motivate people to work toward a common goal. Servant leader has a role to serve and lead similarly to followers, based on the social exchange hypothesis servant leader and follower impacts reciprocally. It is the point of this study to investigate the connection between servant leadership and trust in leadership, as well as the effect of servant leadership on project success. Data gathered from 184 construction project managers demonstrates that servant leadership has the best influence and leads to a good project conclusion when there is trust in leadership, whereas servant leadership and trust in leadership are dependent on the level of uncertainty. Research like this could be useful for Pakistani enterprises or organizations that are making the change to project-based working cultures.