Project manager's emotional intelligence and project performance: The mediating role of project commitment

Construction Project Manager’s Emotional Intelligence and Team Effectiveness: The Mediating Role of Team Cohesion and the Moderating Effect of Time

“…The WLEIS is mainly carried out from four dimensions: self-emotional appraisal, others’ emotional appraisal, use of emotions, and regulation of emotions. Many primary studies conducted in the Chinese project context adopted this scale since it is appropriate to apply to the Chinese context ( Law et al, 2008 ), such as Zhu et al (2021) . Although both self-report and performance tests are widely applied in existing emotional intelligence research, this study adopted the self-reported WLEIS measurement since some scholars argued that the best measurement of emotions and emotional intelligence is self-report because emotional experience is a private internal process.…”

“…Other mediators are represented by leadership-related variables, such as transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership ( Zhan et al, 2018 ). Some recent studies integrate the project-level context factors, such as project commitment ( Zhu et al, 2021 ) and stakeholder relationships ( Montenegro et al, 2021 ) into the relationship between construction project manager’s emotional intelligence and project performance. The current study noticed that the above studies tried to explain the influence of leader’s emotional intelligence by their attitudes, behaviors, and leadership, or the contextual factors from team external, while they have tended to ignore the impacts of internal team process and development.…”

“…Conclusively, the positive correlation between emotional intelligence and project outcome has been known for a long time ( Montenegro et al, 2021 ), but studies that hold the team-level perspective are less. Considering the call for investigating team process-related mechanisms in project managers’ emotional intelligence research ( Müller and Jugdev, 2012 ; Zhu et al, 2021 ), this study aims to develop a mechanism that explains the relationship between construction project manager’s emotional intelligence and team effectiveness from a team perspective by team cohesion and time development variables.…”

“…As construction project is getting mega, eco-friendly, and intelligent, construction project team management practice and research fields have evolved, the heightened expectations of project managers and their leadership are becoming more apparent ( Sundqvist, 2019 ). To better manage projects and achieve effectiveness, recent studies emphasize a nonverbal leadership, emotional intelligence ( Rezvani et al, 2016 ; Montenegro et al, 2021 ; Zhu et al, 2021 ), or the ability to perceive and express emotions, to understand and use them, and to manage them to foster personal growth ( Salovey et al, 2003 ). Turner and Müller (2005) pointed out that emotional intelligence may hold the key to improving project managers’ career success as a leader and project results.…”

“…For project managers who are constantly confronted with communication issues and complex relationships within the project team, formulating satisfactory solutions is essential. Some prior studies have investigated the relationship between construction project manager’s emotional intelligence and project-level output, such as project performance (e.g., Zhang and Fan, 2013 ; Zhu et al, 2021 ) or project success (e.g., Maqbool et al, 2017 ; Montenegro et al, 2021 ), but are yet to describe the relationship between leader’s emotional intelligence and project team effectiveness. Therefore, the first key research question in this study is as:…”