Emotional Intelligence as an Essential  Factor for the Successful Management  and Financial Administration of  Projects and Programs

Asare, Joseph

doi:10.4236/ajibm.2016.64038

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“…In projects, managers with emotional intelligence approach management responsibilities from a different perspective than authoritarian managers (Asare, 2016).The project's failure rate in the world is still very high and it is surprising that the knowledge or know-how of leadership is not the main cause, but the project manager lacks social intelligence and skills such as communication or conflict resolution (Srica, 2008). Müller and Turner (2010) have shown that emotional intelligence abilities are related to the way work is performed and the emotional intelligence plays a key role in improving the performance of project managers.…”

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“…Although previous studies have affirmed emotional intelligence as a success factor in project management and an important and necessary competency for project managers (Jovanovic, Mihic, Mitrovic, Obradovic, & Petrovic, 2013;Rezvani, 2016;Asare, 2016). However, up to now, there have been very few studies evaluating the relationship between emotional intelligence and the project success by the mediation model.Hence, with the above arguments, we recommends transformational leadership as a mediatorfor the second research objective.…”

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Emotional Intelligence and Project Success: The Roles of Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment

Doan¹,

NGUYEN²,

NGUYEN³

2020

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The paper aims to examine the relationship of emotional intelligence on the project success, the causal relationship between emotional intelligence and project success, and also investigate the influence of emotional intelligence and the mediating role of transformational leadership as well as the moderating effect of organization commitment on the relationship between emotional intelligence and project success. Cross sessional research is applied to collect the data in this study. By applying quantitative research and survey question, the study collects 325 respondents who are the project managers. Snow-ball sampling method is used to distribute the questionnaires by face to face survey (68% of respondents) and online survey (32% of respondents). The collected data is analyzing by applying partial least square (PLS-SEM) via software SmartPLS 3.0.The result shows that the emotional intelligence and the transformational leadership making the project even more successful as the mediation actor. Furthermore, the project commitment also has the moderator effect between transformational leadership and project success. With the result of study, project managers should be aware of the importance of emotional intelligence and their commitment to the ability to manage projects successfully. A successful project is a combination of many actors, the most critical actor is the leader of the project.

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Emotional Intelligence and Project Success: The Roles of Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment

Doan¹,

NGUYEN²,

NGUYEN³

2020

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Emotional Intelligence as a Prerequisite to Project Managersâ€ Enhancement in Delivering Construction Projects

Obembe

2017

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This study examined emotional intelligence as an instrument for enhancing the performance of project managers in the construction industry in Ibadan Metropolis. This was a view to determine the effect of the emotional intelligence (EI) of project managers on project management, as well as the relationship between project managersâ€™ emotional intelligence and delivery of projects. The study employed survey research method to collect information from project managers, who are Quantity Surveyor, Civil Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, and Architects. Seventy five project managers were randomly selected from building and construction industry in the study areas. A well-structured questionnaire was administered to the respondents. The data collected were analysed using SPSS Version 16. Descriptive and inferential statistic consisting mean, mode, percentage, frequency, and Chi-Square test were used respectively. The results showed that emotional intelligence is important to the field of project management with an overall mean value of 4.46 on a Likert Scale of 5. Chi-Square test showed a significantly positive relationship between the emotional intelligence level of the project managers and their performance on the job. A positive significance occurs in information handling in all the four domain of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management, unlike other variables such as managing project environment and resources, organising and coordination providing for growth and development and motivation and conflict handling that show both positive and negative significances. The paper concluded that emotional intelligence is a significant phenomenon in the field of project management, because it enhances the performance of project managers.

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Do Project Managers' Emotional Leadership Competencies Affect the Success of Public Sector Projects in Pakistan?

Ahmed

Lodhi²

2021

International Journal of Information Technology Project Management

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The importance of abilities and skills associated with the emotional leadership competencies has been discussed in project management literature. Project managers equipped with the emotional leadership competencies should be better in solving the challenges and problems to enhance project outcomes. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of project manager's emotional leadership competencies in the success of public sector projects. For this purpose, a survey-based methodology using cross-sectional design was adopted to collect data from 150 respondents from the public sector of Pakistan. The respondents of this study were the project managers/directors of information technology and telecommunication projects from the public sector of Pakistan. This quantitative study analyzed the data for reliability and validity of the constructs. To test research hypotheses, correlation and regression analyses were employed. Findings indicated significant impact of project manager's emotional leadership competencies on successful completion of Public sector projects in Pakistan.

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Emotional Intelligence as an Essential Factor for the Successful Management and Financial Administration of Projects and Programs

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Emotional Intelligence and Project Success: The Roles of Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment

Emotional Intelligence and Project Success: The Roles of Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment

Emotional Intelligence as a Prerequisite to Project Managersâ€ Enhancement in Delivering Construction Projects

Do Project Managers' Emotional Leadership Competencies Affect the Success of Public Sector Projects in Pakistan?

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Emotional Intelligence and Project Success: The Roles of Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment

Emotional Intelligence and Project Success: The Roles of Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment

Emotional Intelligence as a Prerequisite to Project Managersâ€ Enhancement in Delivering Construction Projects

Do Project Managers' Emotional Leadership Competencies Affect the Success of Public Sector Projects in Pakistan?

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