Human Side of Project Management: Leadership Skills

To a large extent, project success depends on human behavior - particularly the behavior of the team leader. Project management training most often focuses on mastering the tools and applications of project management, such as operational performance, planning and budget management.

Good leadership skills enable a project manager to harness the energy and capabilities of a project team in such a way that the performance of the team is greater than the sum of its parts. Often referred to as the "human side" of project management or "people skills," leadership is widely accepted as the critical factor in determining the ultimate success or failure of a project.

The Human Side of Project Leadership is a collection of academic studies related to the human side of project management. Taken as a group, these three studies illuminate the ways in which leadership, project spirit and conflict management skills impact project success.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
II. Transformational Leadership and Hypotheses
III. Method
IV. Results
V. Discussion
VI. Introduction
VII. Conceptual Background
VIII. Spirit-Building Activites
IX. Expression Components of Spirit
X. Research Design
XI. Findings and Analysis
XII. Conclusions
XIII. Introduction
XIV. Theoretical Development
XV. Hypotheses Development
XVI. How to Avoid the Mutation from Cognitive to Affective Conflict
XVII. Research Methods
XVIII. Research Reults
XIX. Discussion and Analysis