Hope, goal-commitment and -stress mediating between collaborative leadership, financial resources and performance

Choiwai Maggie Chak, Lara Carminati and Celeste P.M. Wilderom

International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 2022, vol. 72, issue 10, 2785-2807

Abstract: Purpose - Combining the goal-setting and job demands-resources (JD-R) theories, we examine how two project resources, collaborative project leadership and financial project resources, enhance high project performance in community-academic health partnerships. Design/methodology/approach - With a sequential explanatory mixed-method research design, data were collected through a survey (N = 318) and semi-structured interviews (N = 21). A hypothesised three-path mediation model was tested using structural equation modelling with bootstrapping. Qualitative data were examined using thematic analysis. Findings - Project workers’ hope, goal-commitment and -stress: (1) fully mediate the hypothesised relationship between highly collaborative project leadership and high project performance; and (2) partially mediate the relationship between financial project resources and high project performance. The qualitative data corroborate and deepen these findings, revealing the crucial role of hope as a cognitive-motivational facilitator in project workers’ ability to cope with challenges. Practical implications - Project leaders should promote project workers’ goal commitment, reduce their goal stress and boost project performance by securing financial project resources or reinforcing workers’ hope, e.g. by fostering collaborative project leadership. Originality/value - The findings contribute to the project management and JD-R literature by considering the joint effects of project workers’ hope and two commonly studied project resources (collaborative project leadership and financial project resources) on high project performance. Moreover, we demonstrate the importance of the goal-setting and JD-R theories for understanding complex health-promotion projects connecting academic to community work.

Keywords: Project performance; Collaborative project leadership; Financial project resources; Hope; Goal commitment; Goal stress; Goal-setting theory; Job demands-resources theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1108/IJPPM-05-2021-0280

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