Abstract
Project managers’ leadership has a direct and an indirect effect on project success. Extant literature has established that transformational leadership style positively affects project success in a major way. The main aim of this research is to understand the variables that positively affects transformational leadership development and their interrelationships in megaprojects. The Total Interpretive Structural Model (TISM) methodology is adopted to propose a framework, and Impact Matrix Cross-Reference Multiplication Applied to a Classification (MICMAC) approach is used to examine the strategic nature of the enablers. The research shows that there exists a group of enablers having a high driving power and low dependence, requiring maximum attention and of strategic importance, while another group consists of those variables that have high dependence and are resultant actions. Furthermore, the model explains the relationships among each pair of variables. Organisations dealing in megaprojects would be the major beneficiaries of this study. Policy makers in these organisations would explicitly understand the variables and their interrelationships that needs attention for transformational leadership development. This would help them to prioritize their efforts and implement suitable strategies to focus on the most important variables for developing transformational leaders ultimately leading to project success.
Highlights
Published: 21 March 2021Megaprojects can be defined as “a transformational project of over US$ 1 billion cost proposed by public or private sectors, providing assets that will last for decades and have large impact on societies” [1,2]
The second stage consisted of understanding the interrelationships of transformational leadership development (TLD) enablers, followed by the model development based on the Total Interpretive Structural Model (TISM) technique and providing implications to managers involved in megaprojects for developing transformational leaders
This study focuses primarily on the performance of megaprojects through the implementation of TLD enablers
Summary
Megaprojects can be defined as “a transformational project of over US$ 1 billion cost proposed by public or private sectors, providing assets that will last for decades and have large impact on societies” [1,2]. Megaprojects are unlike normal or regular projects because of the great difference in complexity, strategy, impact and stakeholders [1]. Understanding project success and factors that contribute to project success is quite crucial in the context of megaprojects. Megaprojects have been researched in the Western and American continents, but are under-researched elsewhere, and having more research from other countries to understand management characteristics and practices in the light of megaprojects is very much encouraged [5]. The role of the project manager is important in project management performance
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