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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1504108
Transformational Leadership and Project Success: the Mediating Roles of Team Reflexivity and Project Team Resilience
Provisionally accepted- 1School of Economics and Management, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou, China
- 2Liaoning Institute of Science and Engineering, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China
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Drawing from social cognitive theory, this study examines the mediating roles of team reflexivity and project team resilience in translating transformational leadership into project success. Data were collected from 261 project team members across various construction firms in China. The findings reveal that transformational leadership demonstrates a direct positive influence on project success. Moreover, transformational leadership significantly enhances both team reflexivity and project team resilience, which in turn contribute to project success. Furthermore, the results indicate that team reflexivity and project team resilience mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and project success. Based on these results, theoretical implications and practical recommendations are provided.
Keywords: Transformational leadership1, team reflexivity2, project team resilience3, Project success4, Project management5
Received: 30 Sep 2024; Accepted: 11 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Han, Ma, Yang and Zhao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Huibin Han, School of Economics and Management, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou, China
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