Leadership skills

Identifying the soft skills for project leadership

Dr. Qian SHIAssociate professor,School of Economics and Management,

Tongji University,Siping Road 1239, Shanghai 200092, P.R.China qianshi@mail.tongji.edu.cn

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Main content

1.Introduction

2.Related research

3.Interview/Questionnaires

4.Data analysis and study findings

5.Conclusion

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1.Introduction

Background

Project leadership is one of key topics for

research in project management fields in the

last a few years. Although many papers have

been published in this field, there is still a lack

of research especially in mainland China.

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Objectives

This research has drawn on a systematic

study that is helpful to build the body of

knowledge regarding leadership skills of

project leaders with specific reference to the

Chinese context.

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2. Related research

Literatures review Literature about

the concept of project leadership

Literature aboutLeadership characteristics, traits

and leadership behavior

LEADERSHIP SKILLSLiterature about organizationalperformance

Literature directlyrelated to

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Summary of literatures review

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3. Interview/Questionnaires

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Interview In this stage, we have interviewed twenty participants using a set

of open-ended questions with regard to project leadership as well as project organization performance including:

"What are the factors that lead to a successful project team? Or what are the factors that lead to an unsuccessful project team?"

"What are the basic characteristics and traits of a project manager?"

"What are the leadership skills that a project leader should have in order to make the project team effective and efficient?"

The participants represent different organizational levels: general manager, functional manager, project manager, assistant of project manager and project team member .

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Questionnaire about characteristics and traits of a project leaders

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Questionnaire about leadership skills

of a project leader

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4. Date analysis and study findings

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Study findings about project team performance

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Study findings about characteristics and traits of a project leader

Study findings about project leadership skills

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5. Conclusion

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