project work in university

1. Correlation and regression analysis was used to analyze the data.The findings suggest that ethical
leadership and top management support both have significant role on project success as perceived by
employees; also the moderating role of Islamic work ethics was found to be enhancing the
corresponding relationships. Implications, limitations and suggestions for future research are
discussed.
Keywords: Ethical Leadership, Top Management Support, Islamic work ethics, Project Success.

2. • Islamic Work Ethics and Ethical Leadership
• IWE has been used as moderator by Yousef (2001) and has found its
significance in his studies in the framework of an organization. Research
suggests that in the framework of an organization the HR practices are
influential in terms of “organizational commitments” (Hashim, 2010),
similarly the latter is related to “IWE” as well (Marri et al., 2012). The
• Leadership must be quite ethical for an organization to follow its code of
conduct strictly. And the leadership needs to follow ethics in order to
achieve result oriented goals. The organizations having ethical leaders and
with great Work ethics for employees, their projects succeed more as
compared to organization have less ethical environment. There is no
previous study specifically relating Islamic Work Ethics, Ethical Leadership
and their combined effect on project success so to fill this research gap I
propose following hypothesis:

3. Table.1: Demographics
AGE
CHRACTERISTICS FREQUENCY PERCENTAGE
21-30 years 43 25.3
31-40 years 59 34.7
40 -55 years 44 25.9
56 years and above 24 14.1
H5: Islamic Work Ethics moderates the
positive relation between Top
Management Support & Project Success,
in such a way that relation is strong when
Islamic Work Ethics (IWE) is high.
useable. So the total sample size is 170
which is a reasonable sample size for
analysis of results. The total duration for
distribution/data collection was 1.5
months.
A cover letter explaining the purpose and
scope of the study assured respondents of
strict anonymity and that participation in
the study was voluntary. To avoid any
oversight due to a non-serious attitude we
tried to utilize the time off of employees
to fill the questionnaires. Also the
respondents were provided with full

5. • Limitation of Current Study and Directions for Future Research
Projects success and top management support are very persistent
topics in literature but my review suggests that empirical research on
Ethical leadership and Islamic Work Ethics has been comparatively
limited in scope and offers few consistent findings and that many
aspects of these developmental relationships remain unexplored as
my best search