The effect of employee empowerment and employee commitment between the relationship of transformational leadership and project success in the construction projects in Metro Manila

ABSTRACT: This study aims to determine the effect of employee empowerment and employee commitment between the relationship of transformational and project success in construction projects in Metro Manila. Therefore, a survey questionnaire utilizing the 4-point Likert scale was used collect data from 56 respondents from different team leaders of construction project management, when the majority of the respondents fail within the age of 28 to 32, years of experience range of 1 to 5 years, handle more than ten persons, and handle commercial projects. Multifactor leadership questionnaires, Cronbach’s alpha, moderation, and mediation regression analysis were utilized. The assessment of scale reliability tests reveals high internal consistency across all scales (TFL a=0.997, EE a=0.997, and PS a=0.995). The findings showed that employee empowerment moderate the relationship between transformational leadership and project success (average level, p = 0.005), which means that the effect of transformational leadership on project success depends on levels of employee empowerment, (low level, p = 0.021) and (high level, p = 0.002). Employee commitment mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and project success (total effect, p < 0.001), which means that both effects, indirect (p = 0.002) and direct (p = 0.018), were statistically significant. The findings indicated that there was a significant effect between transformational leadership and project success (p = 0.018), transformational leadership is positively related to employee commitment (p < 0.001), and employee commitment is positively associated with project success (p < 0.001).

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