Abstract
Narcissistic leaders supersede others opinions while dealing with different projects is an area of concern because they create the risk of various projects' success. However, risk management technology can balance this leadership to mitigate the project failure risk. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of narcissistic leadership on project success with the moderating role of risk management technology. A self-administrated questionnaire measured the narcissistic leadership constructs with two dimensions (i) admiration, (ii) rivalry as antecedents, risk management technology as moderating construct, and project success with five dimensions (i) cost (ii) schedule (iii) quality (iv) performance and (v) operating environment as an outcome from 242 IT professionals working in IT firms. Using structural equation modelling, the results reveal that narcissistic admiration has a negative significance, but the narcissistic rivalry has no significant impact on project success. Therefore it suggests that narcissistic admiration associated with positive attributes such as high esteem, envy, forgiveness, etc., with an overall motivation to focus on achievements may benefit in success of the project. The results further reveal that risk management technology has no moderating role between narcissistic admiration and rivalry with project success, which suggests risk management technology is not enough to reduce the narcissism leadership to contribute to project success. Further, the results do show the positive impact of risk management technology on project success. The study is helpful for organizational development (OD) professionals, project leaders, and IT firms. The study also provides a new avenue of investigation for academic researchers to tighten up the gap in narcissistic leadership.
Highlights
Leader style can significantly impact any project, ongoing operational activity, team members behaviour, work productivity and existing or new product development process (Darawong, 2020), as the leader is the one who makes the most critical decisions on how to frame the project from its initiation phase to the final result
Narcissistic admiration becomes one of the aspects that can be studied further to see if this personality trait can be used in a way that would contribute towards project success as it is primarily associated with positive attributes such as high esteem, gratitude, envy, forgiveness, etc. with an overall motivation to focus on achievements (Anninos, 2018)
Narcissistic leadership was evaluated in two dimensions; admiration and rivalry, where the results suggested that narcissistic admiration has a negative and significant relationship with project success, whereas narcissistic rivalry possessed no relationship with project success
Summary
Leader style can significantly impact any project, ongoing operational activity, team members behaviour, work productivity and existing or new product development process (Darawong, 2020), as the leader is the one who makes the most critical decisions on how to frame the project from its initiation phase to the final result. It is essential to evaluate the behavior traits of leaders (Pinto & Patanakul, 2015). If a project is derailed, it can be a precarious challenge to an entire organization. Ample literature is available that focuses on the importance of integrating personality and leadership. As for any project, the role of followers and leaders is an integral part of the leadership that can entitle the project towards success (Hassan et al, 2017; Zaman et al, 2020). There is a dearth of literature regarding how projects can be associated with physiological factors that make an individual's personality matching to the leading roles (Wu et al, 2019)
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