Empowering Leaders, Creative Minds, Successful Projects: How Psychological Empowerment And Employee Creativity Drive Project Performance

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20935474

Abstract

Empowering leadership has emerged as an important leadership approach for enhancing employee effectiveness and improving project outcomes in contemporary organizations. The role empowering leadership explore for project performance and mediating role of psychological empowerment and the sequential mediating role of employee creativity. Grounded in JD-R) Theory, Self-Determination Theory, and Social Cognitive Theory, the study proposes that empowering leaders foster employees’ psychological empowerment, which subsequently enhances creativity and contributes to superior project performance. Data were collected from employees working in project-based information technology organizations in Pakistan. The findings indicate that empowering leadership positively influences project performance and significantly enhances employees’ psychological empowerment. The results further reveal that psychologically empowered employees exhibit higher levels of creativity, which subsequently contributes to improved project outcomes. In addition, psychological empowerment and employee creativity were found to play significant mediating roles. The sequential mediation analysis confirms that empowering leadership improves project performance through a chain mechanism involving psychological empowerment and employee creativity.