Project Leadership Style Essay

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Title:
Influence of leadership styles on project outcomes
Problem Statement:
Leadership is about motivating and guiding people to understand their potential, and to achieve more challenging organizational goals. A manager’s leadership style and competence is key to successful performance in project, and many studies have confirmed a correlation between these and the performance of organizations and companies. The focus of this study is to investigate the influence of leadership styles such as Engaging, Involving and Goal-oriented on the project outcomes.
Objectives of the study:
The aim of the study is to find that whether the project success is influenced by leadership style. To realize it, three objectives are set:
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Then it is found that leadership is mainly two main concepts, the communication with followers and the direct management of project. So a reasonable cause for the disappearangbce of leadership in the list of critical success factors is that the project performance is influenced more by teamwork than direct management. The leadership likely impacts project through teamwork. Good leadership can improve the teamwork. (Shamir et al, 2000). This view is supported by other authors who consider appropriate leadership is a positive factor of teamwork related to communication, collaboration and cohesiveness (Bass, 1990; Yammarino et al., …show more content…

As expected, his results indicate that teamwork can be improved by appropriate leadership style in a certain circumstance, namely the project type. Further, the performance of project can benefit from the improved teamwork. Now the hidden relationship has been emerged. A similar model was produced by Muller and Turner (2007). In his research, the leadership style is regarded as independent variables. Project success is the dependent variables and project type is conceptualized as moderating variables. But in his model, teamwork is not