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

Author:

Shahzad Khurram1,Iqbal Rimsha1ORCID,Nauman Shazia2ORCID,Shahzadi Raheela1,Luqman Adeel3

Affiliation:

1. Faculty of Management Sciences, Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan

2. Riphah School of Business and Management, Riphah International University, Lahore, Pakistan

3. College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

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.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Management of Technology and Innovation,Strategy and Management,Business and International Management

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