Professional Documents
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Team Members:
Karan Kalra
Sheenum Attri
Rajarshi Choudhury
Akanksha Galyan
Table of Content
Implications
Conclusion
Results
Analysis
Methodology
Introduction
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Introduction
Managers perform better, stay longer in their position if their personal characteristics meet the
requirements of the position
Profiles are often used to relate the profile dimensions to success or failure in a person’s leadership
position, or alternatively select or develop managers from the match between existing profiles of
successful managers and those of candidates for appointment to management positions
◦ to predict presidents’ performance over time
◦ profile cultural differences, profiling mid-level managers in twelve countries
◦ profile leadership differences by gender, geographical region, industry, or role in a company
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Leadership Theories
Early theories started from a focus on the individual leader and his or her traits. How they have shaped is
a) Take into account the context of the leadership situation.
b) Shift of focus from the observable behaviour of personal attributes to the intellectual exchange &
interpersonal relationships.
- Trait school: Focussed on leaders’ traits their physical appearance, capabilities & personalities
- Behaviour school : Emphasized on the styles. Leadership can be learned, and is not a trait people are
born with. Leadership differences in concern for people versus concern for production
- Contingency school: Appropriateness of different leadership styles in different leadership situations by
matching the personal characteristics.
Four styles of directive, supportive, participative and achievement oriented leadership, contingent on the
personality of the person being led and the situational ambiguity of a leader to the leadership situation.
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Leadership Theories Cont..
Visionary and charismatic Emotional intelligence school Competence school:
school
Focuses on self management and Encompasses all the earlier schools.
Focus on organizational change. interaction management.
Competence is hereby meant as a
Distinction between transactional and Emotional capabilities are more specific combination of knowledge,
transformational leadership styles. important for leadership than intellectual skills and personal characteristics.
capabilities.
Former emphasizes on rewards Identified 15 leadership dimensions,
contingent on meeting specified Six leadership styles, namely visionary, which then clustered under three
performance targets, while the latter coaching, affiliative, democratic, competences of intellectual (IQ),
emphasizes the development of visions, pacesetting, and commanding. This emotional (EQ) and managerial (MQ).
presence of charisma, respect and trust. order of styles moves from very
democratic via supportive to
authoritative
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Competency based model
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Leadership in Projects
Traditionally project management is understood as using the right tools and techniques for being
successful, regardless of a project manager’s match of personality with project type
MBTI Model, Investigations on PM’s leadership done using case studies
Importance of Transformational Leadership ; creating a supportive environment;
PM’s categorizations as project star, promising newcomer, focused creative expert, uncreative decision-
maker, or thick-skinned pragmatist.
Both the project management procedures used and the project manager’s competence should be
selected
Different leadership competences relate to leadership success in different contents. Importance for
emotional competences in projects
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PROJECT SUCCESS
The factors identified did
not include project
manager’s competence
and focussed on risk
management, program
and portfolio
management.
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MULLER AND TURNER – DEFINITION OF
PROJECT SUCCESS
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PROJECT TYPE
• A comprehensive study was done
in which the products were
categorized by their attributes
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METHODOLOGY
QUESTIONNAIRE
• Web-based questionnaire
• Members of professional
organizations in project
QUESTIONNAIRE -1 QUESTIONNAIRE - 2
management were targeted
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Analysis
Identifying competencies present prominently in project managers of top performing Projects
Categorising the scores of the competencies into high, medium and low
Drawing the Leadership profiles of managers of Top performing projects based on project Types
Comparing the three leadership styles as defined in literature with the leadership profiles and identifying
the closest fit
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Results
Results
Project Application Area Complexity
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Conclusion
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Implications
Theoretical Practical
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References
Mumford, A., Zaccaro, S.J., Johnson, J.F., Diana, M., Gilbert, J.A., Threlfall, K.V., 2000. Patterns of
leader characteristics: implications for performance and development. Leadership Quarterly 11
(1), 115–133.
Mu¨ ller, R., Turner, J.R., 2007. Matching the project manager’s leadership style to project type.
International Journal of Project Management 25 (1), 21–32.
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