TAILIEUCHUNG - Servant leadership and its effects on IT project success

Servant Leadership is well known as an employee-oriented leadership style which is used by several major corporations. This work investigates the effects that Servant Leadership may have on the success of Information Technology (IT) projects. | Servant leadership and its effects on IT project success Journal of Project Management 5 2020 59 78 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Journal of Project Management homepage Servant leadership and its effects on IT project success Mark Harwardta a Hochschule für angewandtes Management Germany CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Servant Leadership is well known as an employee-oriented leadership style which is used Received May 25 2019 by several major corporations. This work investigates the effects that Servant Leadership Received in revised format June may have on the success of Information Technology IT projects. To estimate these effects 21 2019 via structural equation modelling SEM this study is based on already established models Accepted July 21 2019 Available online the model of Servant Leadership developed by Van Dierendonck and Nuijten and the model July 21 2019 of IT project success developed by Harwardt. Three of the Servant Leadership dimensions Keywords have positive impact on the success dimensions IT project. The Servant Leadership Dimen- Leadership sion Accountability has a positive impact on the dimensions Project management success Servant Leadership Perception success and Result success. Authenticity has a positive impact on Project man- Effects agement success and Result success whereas Forgiveness affects only Result success. Project management Success criteria Success dimensions Project evaluation 2020 by the authors licensee Growing Science Canada. 1. Introduction Projects as a form of cooperation have established over the past years and their significance within companies has steadily increased Jessen 2002 . Due to the great operational and strategical rele- vance of IT within companies this applies especially for IT projects Schwalbe 2013 . The large number of studies dealing with the effect of leadership on the performance of teams or the effect of leadership on project success is thus not astonishing. .

• Quản lý dự án
• Employee oriented leadership style
• Information Technology projects
• IT project success
• Structural equation modelling
• Servant Leadership Dimension Accountability