Yang, Y; Antwi-Afari, M F; Imran, M and Kong, L (2025) Effects of transformational leadership and organizational climate on project performance in industrial revolution 5.0: A systematic literature review. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 23(5), pp. 1666-1693. ISSN 1726-0531
Abstract
Purpose – The relationships between transformational leadership (TL), organizational climate (OC) and project performance have been investigated by previous studies, but no review of existing studies has systematically analyzed the effects of TL and OC on project performance in the industrial revolution (IR) 5.0 era. Therefore, this study aims to conduct a systematic literature review on the effects of TL and OC on project performance in IR 5.0, and to identify mainstream research topics, research gaps and future research directions. Design/methodology/approach – To do this, a total of 53 included journal articles were obtained after initially retrieving 648 documents from the Scopus database by following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. It consists of four main steps, namely, identification of documents, screening, eligibility and included articles. In addition, science mapping analyses were conducted for keyword co-occurrence and document analyses, which aided in identifying the mainstream research topics, research gaps and future research directions. Findings – The results report the annual publication trends, keywords and document analyses. Furthermore, a detailed qualitative discussion highlighted four mainstream research topics including TL in project management; the relationship between TL, OC and innovation; safety climate; and OC in project management. Moreover, this review study identified four research gaps and future research directions aligned with the mainstream research topics. They include: longitudinal investigations and multinational corporation surveys in TL; scope and longitudinal data in innovation; mono-method bias and universality of safety climate; and more comprehensive analyses of OC. Originality/value – This review study would contribute to not only advancing the effects of TL and OC on project performance in IR 5.0, but also enabling project managers to understand TL or OC issues to improve project performance.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | industrial revolution; organizational climate; project performance; science mapping; systematic review; transformational leadership |
| Index terms: | publication, project performance, safety climate, mapping, screening, eligibility, journal, transformational leadership, systematic literature review, document analysis, project manager, project management, database, methodology, meta-analysis, survey, investigation, bias, documents, science |
| Subjects: | employment law, data science, probability and distributions, spatial and geospatial analysis, project management theory and practice, research dissemination and communication, research evaluation and metrics, health safety and environment, profession, data collection methods, management, data management, specialized education, research methods, professional development |
| Topics: | Information Management, Human Resources, Digital Applications, Project Management, Research Practice, Organizational Design, Education, Roles and Professions, Legal Issues, Health and Safety |
| Descriptive scope: | 5 PCTEA |
N.B. Descriptive scope is a count of how many of the five facets of empirical research are indicated by the words used in title, abstract and keywords. It is not intended as a judgement on the research; merely a count of the kind of word we would expect to indicate Phenomenon, Concepts, Theoretical framing, Empirical techniques, Analytical techniques. If all five are present, then a code of “5 PCTEA” will indicate this. If you feel the coding for this record is questionable, we welcome discussion around the terms we matched or the way we categorized them. The facet you would expect may not be coded, or a facet may be coded inappropriately. This can also bear on a larger question, of which facets should be treated as defining in construction management research. Please get in touch, and we will look at it. More details here