Workplace Stress Management and Project Success: Role of Team Performance, Inclusive Leadership and Organizational Culture

Abstract

Currently, strong debates about the work-life balance of the employees are in process, that how and why Workplace Stress Management emerged as a serious concern for organizations to remain competitive in the industry. Keeping this in view one can say that Workplace Stress Management (WPSM) is a reality and by denying its importance ends in failures. The rationale of this research was to study the impact of Workplace-Stress Management on Project Success, with the mediating role of Team Performance and Moderating impact of Inclusive Leadership & Organizational Culture. The main reason of Workplace Stress is directly related to poor managerial competencies and organizational deficiencies among the peers which lead to the organization culture. Only good managerial practices with Inclusive Leadership and Organizational Culture that may align with employee‟s perspective can manage the work related stress effectively and ensure Project Success, which were the hypotheses of this study. Therefore, by verifying the perspective the study shall contribute on the available literature of project Management. Construction professionals have the responsibilities for the project success so they experience high level of stress related to work. So, the study was composite upon the feedback responses received from respondents of project based organizations from construction/ Housing project industry in Pakistan, specifically in Rawalpindi Islamabad. The target population was project team, project managers and team leaders. Convenience sampling technique has been used with sample of 375. The study was cross-sectional and Quantitative in nexus upon well-structured close ended questionnaires on 5-point Likert scale. The collected data then analyzed with SPSS ver. 26.0 and Baron and Kenny mediation analysis model was used to study the mediation impact. It was found that, the Workplace Stress Management positively impacts the Project Success. The mediating role of Team Performance between Workplace Stress Management & Project Success was also found positive. The moderating role of Inclusive Leadership & Organizational Culture was also found positive in the relationship between Workplace Stress Management & Project Success