Linking Spiritual Leadership With Project Success In Software Industry Of Pakistan: Using Employee Engagement As Mediator And Self-Efficacy As Moderator

In the project management literature, project success has been considered a key topic during the last few years. This study has proposed a model to observe the influence of spiritual leadership on the success of IT projects, with employee engagement as a mediator and self-efficacy as a moderator, by drawing a theoretical model from self-efficacy theory and spiritual leadership theory.

Data was collected from employees of the software industry in Pakistan, and the proposed associations were tested through structural equation modelling using SMART-PLS software. The results indicated that the spirituality of leaders does not have a direct influence on project success, but it has an indirect influence through the mediation of employee engagement.

Moreover, self-efficacy does not have any moderating influence on the association between spiritual leadership and project success. Self-efficacy also has no moderating effect on the association between employee engagement and project success.

Based on spiritual leadership theory and self-efficacy theory, this research showed how spiritual leadership creates employee engagement, which further leads to project success.