Task-Oriented Versus Relationship-Oriented

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1.0. Introduction
The term project management can be defined as the practice of initiating, planning,
executing, controlling as well as closing the work of a team for achieving specific goals along
with meeting specify success criteria within the stipulated time. Leadership and team
management in project management are terms that are considered to be synonymous. It is highly
crucial for managers to understand that in management, leadership is one of the most essential
parts in order to manage an organization in an efficient way. Being a crucial component of
management, leadership behaviour stresses upon constructing an environment where each and
every employee gets a work friendly environment for developing as well as excelling their
performance and skills. The mentioned influence may originate from formal resources that
include acquisition of managerial position in an organization. It is highly crucial for a manager or
a team leader to have leadership traits as well as leadership qualities. This helps the leader to deal
with the team members in an efficient way and thus ensure enhancement of the efficiency of the
team and well established professional relationship between the team members so that the team
develops the potential to achieve its goal. Thus it can be clearly understood that team
management and leadership are two highly interrelated factors. In the following paragraphs
review of academic literatures associated with the two topics that is, leadership as well as team
management have been discussed.
2.0. Literature review on leadership and team management
2.1. Leadership in project management
. According to APM (2012) “leadership can be defined as the ability of a leader for
establishing vision as well as direction, along with influencing and aligning others towards a

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common goal, to empower, inspire individuals for achieving success”.
When it comes to the process of managing a project team, it can be considered as an activity that
allows the leaders to teach the performance of the team member with the help of using feedback,
by resolving strategic as well as operational issues along with managing the changes associated
with the reason behind optimizing the performance of the project (McGrath et al. 2016). The
process of managing a project team possess includes addressing precise challenges of team
management that are related to communication, recognition as well as assessment of the
objectives of the team. It can be considered the responsibility of the team leader or the project
managers for managing the project team along with ensuring the success of the project. Thus it is
highly crucial for a project manager to possess effective leadership skills. According to Henkel,
Marion and Bourdeau (2019), leadership in project management can be considered as a critical
skill for teamwork management as well as team building. An efficient level of leadership allows
the project leader for developing a successful communication with the team members which in
turn ensure efficient communication of the vision and mission of the project. Along with this,
efficient leadership skills also help the team leader to achieve high performance.
According to Aga, Noorderhaven and Vallejo (2016) transformational leadership style
possess the potential to ensure the success of the project. The transformational leadership style
refers to a leadership style that enables a leader to encourage inspire as well as motivating the
employees for innovating as well as creating changes that will result in growth as along with
shaping the future success of the organization. A transformational leader is someone who
possesses the efficiency of bringing a collaborative approach to the team, empowering the team
by providing the team members freedom and responsibilities. Deichmann and Stam (2015) stated
that a transformational leader, unlike leaders who follows transactional or autocratic leadership,

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works with the team members in order to identify the specific areas that requires changes. This in
turn, not only enhance the potentiality and performance of the team members but also enhances
the trust of the team members that eventually results in increment in employee loyalty. He or she
creates a vision that provides the guidance to the changes required along with inspiring the team
for sharing their vision. According to Han et al. (2016) in this era of high competition between
the organizations in any industry, empowerment of the employees can be considered to be an
effective way of retaining skilled and experienced employees. Empowerment of employees
makes them feel valued and thus enhances their loyalty towards the organization. A
transformational leader empowers the employees by considering their perspective before taking
major decision for the team, inspiring them to share their vision along with encouraging them to
execute their plan and participating in the process of changing. Dartey-Baah (2015) pointed out
that transformational leadership initiates with the urge of the leaders to listen for learning instead
of listing for answering.