The relationship between ebullient supervision and project success remains a nascent area of inquiry in project management literature. Leveraging the Conservation of Resources theory, this study aims to investigate the potential mediating role of employee creativity in the link between ebullient supervision and project success within the IT industry.
At the dyad level of analysis, data from 48 project teams (48 project supervisors and 232 project team members – 280 employees in total) from the IT industry was collected using a structured questionnaire. PLS-SEM was considered by employing SmartPLS4 for data analysis.
The findings demonstrates that ebullient supervision contributes to project success through employee creativity. Contrary to expectations, thriving at work had a negative moderating effect, indicating that the benefits of ebullient supervision on employee creativity may be diminished when employees are thriving at work.
This study provides practical insights for IT project managers to drive project success by fostering ebullient supervision and prioritizing employee creativity, ultimately informing resource allocation decisions.
This paper provides a new outlook on the role of ebullient supervision in the success of a project, by starting to investigate the role of employee creativity as a mediating variable in this process.
