Managing Stress In Projects Using Coaching Leadership Tools

Effects of Leadership Styles on Project Performance

Discuss about the Managing stress in projects using coaching leadership tools.

Larsson, J., Eriksson, P., Olofsson, T., & Simonsson, P. (2015). “Leadership in Civil Engineering: Effects of Project Managers’ Leadership Styles on Project Performance.” J. Manage. Eng., 10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000367, 04015011.

Successful completion of project requires the ability to co-ordinate the activities of several employees participated in the project of an industry. Thus, project manager plays an important role to set the ground rules and cultivate the combined approach, which strongly influence the performance of a project (Larsson et al., 2015).

Saif Ur Rehman Khan, Long, C. S., & Syed Muhammad Javed Iqbal. (2014). Authentic leadership: An emerging issue in project management. Research Journal of Applied Sciences, 8(11), 1377-1383.

With the advancement in the project management, today’s project leaders have to be specific to their field in term of technical and behavioral approach. Authentic leadership would be most appropriate leadership style for project management in an industry (Saif et al., 2014). In this leadership, the project leaders would keep build honest relationship with the follower participated in the project.

Stagnaro, C., & Piotrowski, C. (2014). Shared leadership: A critical component in IT project management. Journal of Technology Research, 5, 1.

Information technology fields are evolving rapidly and thus it requires innovation and creativity of the employees participated in the IT project. Distributed leadership approach of the leaders are best suited for the project success as it allows the project participants to lead each other and thus helps in creativity of each other (Stagnaro & Piotrowski, 2014).

Mokhtarisani, M., Zarei, M. M., & Leman, Z. (2014). Influence of leadership behavior on project management performance in malaysian industries. Paper presented at the , 564 673-677.

In today’s industrial environment, effective leadership approach has become the prime importance to successfully completing the project and thus bringing competitive edge to the industry (Mokhtarisani et al., 2014). Effective leadership style can minimize the cost of the project by completing the project in right time.

Krog, C. L., & Govender, K. (2015). The relationship between servant leadership and employee empowerment, commitment, trust and innovative behaviour: A project management perspective. SA Journal of Human Resource Management, 13(1)

In today’s competitive era, the success of the project not only dependent on the altitudinal characteristic of the leader but also it is dependent on the positional power of the leaders (Krog & Govender, 2015). It is related to wisdom, emotional healing and persuasive mapping quality of the leaders to get the work done by the project worker.

Authentic Leadership in Project Management

Clarke, N. (2012). Shared leadership in projects: A matter of substance over style. Team Performance Management: An International Journal, 18(3/4), 196-209.

Most of the industrial and government project are globalized in nature and thus frequently needs changes in the project procedures. Hence, in this case if a project leaders show shared leadership then the employees would be allowed to lead each other’s works and thus change their working criteria easily for the successes of the project (Clarke, 2012).

Yang, L., Huang, C., & Hsu, T. (2014). Knowledge leadership to improve project and organizational performance. International Journal of Project Management,32(1)

Great project leaders always tend to find way to help the project participant in delivering high performance for the success of the project. Recent project leaders show knowledge leadership for their followers through sharing their knowledge throughout the organization (Yang et al., 2014).

Lundy, V., & Morin, P. (2013). Project leadership influences resistance to change: The case of the canadian public service. Project Management Journal, 44(4), 45-64.

The success of the project sometimes depends on the ability of the project to adopt the changes of the market. In this case, project participant may sometimes resistant to change (Lundy & Morin, 2013). The resistance of the project participants can only be overcome through effective engage leadership of the project leaders.

Nixon, P., Harrington, M., & Parker, D. (2012). Leadership performance is significant to project success or failure: A critical analysis. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 61(2), 204-216.

Having a single leadership approach throughout the whole project is not appropriate for the success of the project. The circumstances of the project may change and the project leaders should change the leadership style to accommodate the change (Nixon et al., 2012).

Tyssen, A. K., Wald, A., & Spieth, P. (2014). The challenge of transactional and transformational leadership in projects.International Journal of Project Management, 32(3)

The commitment of the project participants is vey essential to make a project successful. Therefore, effective leadership is very vital to engage project participants in the success of the project (Tyssen et al., 2014). Modern leaders generally follow transformational leadership to engage project participants in the project work.

Zhang, L., & Cheng, J. (2015). Effect of knowledge leadership onKnowledge sharing in engineering project design teams: The role ofSocial capital. Project Management Journal, 46(5)

The success of the project depends on effective knowledge sharing of the leader. Hence, effective knowledge sharing depends on the appropriate knowledge of the leader to promote collaborative and trustworthy working environment and develop shared vision of the project (Zhang & Cheng, 2015).

Shared Leadership in IT Project Management

Berg, M. E., & Karlsen, J. T. (2013). Managing stress in projects using coaching leadership tools. Engineering Management Journal, 25(4), 52-61.

The work of a modern project team leader is very difficult, demanding and challenging, as they have to manage many works together (Berg & Karlsen, 2013). When the project is complex in nature and the purpose of the project is unclear, the project leaders should be very interactive with the project participant.

Kissi, J., Dainty, A., & Tuuli, M. (2013). Examining the role of transformational leadership of portfolio managers in project performance. International Journal of Project Management, 31(4), 485-497.

In order to handle multiple activities of a project effectively, the recent project leaders apply transformational leadership style in the workplace. It increases the motivation of the project participants as they are allowed to make creative idea for the project success (Kissi et al., 2013).

Senam, M. R., Rashid, K. A., Sarkawi, A. A., & Zaini, R. M. (2014). Construction project leadership from the perspective of islam. International Journal of Islamic Thought, 6, 46-56.

Most of the projects of the industry are globalized in nature. Therefore, the project leaders have to manage diverse group of people involving in his project. In such case, project leaders use ethical leadership, in which the leaders respect value of all people and consider their dignity for motivating them towards the success of the project (Senam et al., 2014).

Muller, R., Geraldi, J., Turner, J. R., Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet (USBE), Umeå universitet, & Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten. (2012;2011;). Relationships between leadership and success in different types of project complexities. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 59(1), 77-90.

Successful completion of a complex project is highly dependent on intelligence quotient and emotional quotient and the leader (Muller et al., 2012). Through using the intelligence quotient the project leaders breaks down the whole project into several simpler projects and make this project easier for the project participants.

Morgan Tuuli, M., Rowlinson, S., Fellows, R., & Liu, A. M. M. (2012). Empowering the project team: Impact of leadership style and team context. Team Performance Management: An International Journal, 18(3/4), 149-175.

Most of the time, the effective leaders use person oriented leadership for completing a complex project. It is positively related to the psychological empowerment of the project participants for their hard work (Morgan et al., 2012). This leadership style concentrates more on valuing the people involved in the project.

Kaminsky, J. B. (2012). Impact of nontechnical leadership practices on it project success. Journal of Leadership Studies, 6(1), 30-49

Influence of Leadership Behavior on Project Management Performance

For the success of an IT project, it is necessary for a project leader to apply adaptive leadership in the project completion. Adaptive leadership helps individual as well as adapt a challenging environment for the success of the project (Kaminsky, 2012).

Thamhain, H. (2012). The changing role of team leadership in multinational project environments. Revista De Gestão e Projetos, 3(2), 4-38

In order to create a high performance project team, the leaders should be very much concerned about the fact that personal and professional needs of the project participants are successfully balanced (Thamhain, 2012).

Braun, F. C., Avital, M., & Martz, B. (2012). Action-centered team leadership influences more than performance. Team Performance Management: An International Journal,18(3/4), 176-195

Action centered project leadership practice helps in creating a project team environment that promote knowledge and learning collaboration along with job satisfaction and individual performance of the project participants (Braun et al., 2012).

Muganda, N., & Pillay, K. (2013). Forms of power, politics and leadership in asynchronous virtual project environment.International Journal of Managing Projects in Business,6(3), 457-484

Effective leadership can minimize conflict among the project participant through maintaining participative leadership in the project execution (Muganda & Pillay, 2013). Minimizing conflicts among the project participants would ultimately lead the success of the project.

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