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    Human Side of Project Management: Leadership Skills
    Human Side of Project Management: Leadership Skills
    Human Side of Project Management: Leadership Skills
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    Human Side of Project Management: Leadership Skills

    By Jianguo Chen, PhD and Qian Shi, PhD, PMP

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    The Human Side of Project Management: Leadership Skills includes an assessment framework for selecting project leaders who exemplify the key characteristics and traits identified in the research, with particular emphasis on working in China, due to the country's growing need for project management. In building the body of knowledge relating to leadership skills of project leaders, researchers from Tongji University in Shanghai employed a number of tactics, including literature review, investigation and interview, theory analysis, experiment design, and data collection and processing. The study's findings are generally applicable to a variety of projects and industries.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherProject Management Institute
    Release dateNov 1, 2006
    ISBN9781628251241
    Human Side of Project Management: Leadership Skills

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      CHAPTER 1

      Introduction

      Besides the traditional project management methodologies, tools, and techniques, leadership skills, which can be also called the human side or soft skills, have been widely accepted as a pivotal factor in the success of projects. There are usually two types of leaders in project management teams. One is the directive-managing, task-orientated leader, and the other is the non-directive, human-relation-orientated leader. Actually, especially in the latter situation, many project managers do not have real authority over their team members, which makes human side skills a key part of their work. Unfortunately, it is difficult for the project managers in such a situation to find an effective approach to successfully lead their project team.

      Mullins (1996) defined leadership as a relationship through which one person influences the behavior of other people. A project leader must have the ability to learn, adapt, and overcome new problems through the sharing of experiences, questions, and solutions with other project members. Good leadership skills can help the project leader to liberate energies and capabilities of a project team greater than those of the sum of the individual members. With leadership skills, a project leader, who is responsible for group efficiency improvement, is able to understand how much the group efficiency arises and to capture it sequentially, immediately, and correctly.

      The leadership skills of project leaders are different from those of enterprise leaders. The characteristics of a project—such as new colleagues, unclear framework, project context, etc.—usually adversely affect the group efficiency and the performance of the project leader. This leads to the fact that, although unacceptable, any research and experience of leadership skills for enterprise management cannot be directly employed for project management. Therefore, building a body of knowledge of leadership skills for project leaders needs further study.

      Nowadays, many projects no longer operate the business solely in the domestic markets. Consequently, the project leader has to deal with the individual situations of other countries, which makes the soft skills of the project leader extremely important for international projects. In the last 12 months we conducted research funded by PMI to identify the soft skills for project leaders in the Chinese context. The research plan is shown in the following chart:

      On the basis of previous studies, this research has drawn on a systematic study that is helpful in building the body of knowledge regarding leadership skills of project leaders with specific reference to the Chinese context. The stages of our research include literature review, investigation and interview, theory analysis, experiment design, data collection, data processing, etc. The findings of this research will be generally applicable to a wide variety of projects and industries, and will address leadership skills needed not only in projects that are in trouble, but also in those that are running smoothly. The main objectives of this research are as follows:

      To find out the main factors that cause unsuccessful leadership of project leaders

      To find out the main factors that cause successful leadership of project leaders

      To find out the main factors that influence project team performance

      To find out the necessary characteristics and traits for a project leader

      To find out the main leadership skills for the project leaders to successfully

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