Explaining The Difference Between Project Leadership And The Role Of Management

Project Leadership and Project Management Skills and Traits

Question:

Discuss about the Ethical Challenges of Leadership Sustainability.

The current report is all about explaining the difference between the project leadership and the role of management in handling and managing particular projects these two terms are slightly related to each other as it depicts the skills and traits of an individual in showing their attributes in managing a project. The research study stresses on the adjusting ability of the project managers in utilizing all the tools and techniques of the 21^st century that shows their flexibility in changing the entire structure of the project with the changes takes places in the external environment.[1] The current study was based on the research question in which comparison was made between the project leadership and project management skills and traits. This report is related to the fulfilling of 21^st century needs and expectations of an entity by applying different leadership styles in managing all the personnel working on a single or more than one project. The role of a leader is to create coordination among its workforce by assigning all the tasks and duties to its employees according to their interest in sustaining all of them in the same project for the longest time.[2]

A focus of the report lies in proving the correctness of the research question by getting reliable facts and figures related to the current stream. The author further commented on this section that the condition of the modern generation with the event of the global financial crisis that decreases all sources of income and also affected the available resources held with different economies of all across the world[3]. This action of the event has increases the unwanted changes in the environment globally that creates complexities and the difficulties faced by the project owners.[4] Using project leadership boosted the condition of the firms in upgrading its skills in attracting external as well as internal users of the business. A leader motivates its followers in completing is duty within a short span of time as all the subordinates represent its leader and its guidance in marketing the products or services offered by an entity among all the customers.

The objectives of this assignment are to ensure the quality of services delivered by an entity to all the external users by implementing project leadership techniques in an enterprise. The quality of a leader creates its unique identity among all the managers working in an entity as a leader is the only people who thinks about their followers and take actions o improve the working conditions of all its followers and employees in enhancing their productivity.[5] The action of a leader has dual advantages for both employees as well for the business’s increasing productivity of workers will, in turn, induces the singular efficiency of all the employees working for the betterment of the business in generating higher goals as the objectives in lesser time period.

Fulfilling 21st Century Needs and Expectations through Project Leadership

The results came out through this method stares that leader think about its followers and employees while resolving a particular issue but at the same time, managers emphasize on eliminating the issue without thinking about the sake of the employees as the focus of a manager lies in meeting the order of the top management.[6]

As per human tendency, receiving rewards and compensation induces the performance of an individual from the normal condition as this enhances the speed to achieve the higher target to get the pride and recognition in front of all the employees working at a similar level.[7]

Table 1: Data base extration

Keyword	Databases	Journal
Leader	Wiley online library	Moye, Neta, Rose Mueller?Hanson, and Claus Langfred. “Assessment for Leader Development.” The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Recruitment, Selection and Employee Retention (2017): 353-375.
Manager	Wiley online library	Block, Peter. The empowered manager: Positive political skills at work. John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
Duties of manager	Journal of human resource management	McCracken, Martin, Paula O’Kane, Travor C. Brown, and Mark McCrory. “Human resource business partner lifecycle model: exploring how the relationship between HRBPs and their line manager partners evolves.” Human Resource Management Journal 27, no. 1 (2017): 58-74.

Entire research is based on evaluating the difference among the role of a leader and a manager in coping with the changes takes laces in the external environment. Current research favours leader as the most suitable person as a leader fulfils all its responsibilities in the most suitable manner by considering the views and opinions of the top management, manager and all its followers working in a single team.[8] Data collected in this research states that leader has different perspective as compared to manager in an entity as they think about the betterment of all the employees. A leader uses democratic style and a manager uses autocratic management style to order all the employees to complete the work with or without interest.

This research emphasizes on exploring the condition of a leader and a manager working in a similar firm as the qualities both the individuals are different from each other. A leader always takes initiatives to inspire their followers in accomplishing all the tasks and duties within a stipulated time period but on another hand, a manager focuses only on the accomplishment of the work by ordering their subordinates without thinking about all the employees.[9] This assignment emphasizes on the meeting of changing needs of the 21^st century through project leadership. They encourage the spirit of all the employees in striving hard to meet all the targets in a less time as compared to all the competitors. Healthy competition has started in an entity due to the existence of a leader in a business. Manager of the firm will only emphasize on the accomplishment of all the tasks and duties without taking care of the employees as their focus only lies on completing the task to improve its image in front of the top management as the managers adopt rigid attitude just to complete all the tasks.

Leader vs. Manager: Views on Resolving Issues

The data of this research also suggest that the action of a manager creates frustration, dissatisfaction, and de-motivation among the employees as thinking about the business is not good as every form is a collaboration of all the users of the firm who make up the company together. Selfish attitude of the managers will increase the staff turnover in an entity that reduces the goodwill and entire customer base of the firm in the external environment. On the contrary to it, action of a leader is very different from the act of the managers as a leader inspires its followers by decreasing its workload, explaining the importance of work by allotting all kinds of work to nurture the hidden qualities of all the employees guidance of a leader will shape the present as well as the future of all the workers working under the guidance of a leader.[10] A supervisor fight against the firm for the rights of its employees which increases its respect among all their team memoirs as their focus is on building team synergy among all the members of a team.

The literature review is based on different keywords such as leader, manager, duties of manager and the role of a leader in an entity that answers the research question. The literature review shows the importance of a leader as the current research question is about adapting to the external market changes takes places in an enterprise. The author has explained various pieces of evidence that reflect the role of a leader against the manager in an entity.

Project leadership and role of the project manager explained in the literature review favours a leader is true as higher staff turnover in an entity gets reduces with the existence of a leader.[11] A supervisor motivates its users in staying more time in an entity as a leader assigns tasks and duties to all the users according to their interests to accomplish all the tasks in a given span of time.[12] Project manager judges the capability of project personnel on their performance but in a project leadership concept, a project leader interacts with the followers in resolving all their issues.

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Shumkov, Y. A., and L. A. Vidovskiy. “THE TASK OF PROJECT MANAGMENT.” Polythematic Online Scientific Journal of Kuban State Agrarian University (2016). – all the references should be listed at the end of the report the current version is wrong.

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Kerzner, Harold. Project management metrics, KPIs, and dashboards: a guide to measuring and monitoring project performance. John Wiley & Sons, 2017.

Baptista, Amilcar, Fernando Santos, José Páscoa, and Nadja Sändig. “Project Management Methodologies as Main Tool for Current Challenges in Global Economy Driving Historical Changes.” Journal of Advanced Management science 4, no. 2 (2016).

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Sharma, Garima, and Anand Kumar Jaiswal. “Unsustainability of sustainability: cognitive frames and tensions in bottom of the pyramid projects.” Journal of Business Ethics (2017): 1-17.

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