Project Management, Leadership and Skills: Planning and Control

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP AND SKILLS
Project Management, Leadership and Skills: Planning and Control
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP AND SKILLS
Abstract
The report is based on analyzing the role of motivation along with role of leadership and
communication into the motivation processes. The manager plays the role of leader to motivate
the employees into the organization. In order to become an efficient leader, it is required to be
self–motivated. The organizational leadership has direct influence on actions into the work
environments which enable the changes. At the time of hiring of a manager for a project, good
leadership and communication skills are considered as imperative skills a manager should have.
For an effective manager, the responsibility is to ensure persuasion, create and manage of value
system along with providing of support as well as motivation to the team members. The manager
accomplished of providing motivation to the team members by leading, planning, monitoring as
well as communicating. Every day, the manager is spending of 70-90 percent of the time into
communicating with the team members at the workplace. Effective communication process acts
as advantage of leader to lead the work effectively. The paper discusses how the leadership is
affected by the communication. The key significant points of the project manager are to
communicate with the members to take suggestions from them to improve the business
operations. The manager as considered as participative leadership style to motivate the
employees. Therefore, effective communication is one of the most important factors in order to
grow as successful leader. According to the researchers, the leader plays a key role to encourage,
motivate, direct and stimulate others. Good communication skills help enables to share what they
have and what they are expected from others. The paper discusses of some motivational theories
such as Maslow Hierarchy of Needs and Theory Z to motivate the employees to work into the
project.
Key words: Motivation, effective communication, leadership, manager, leadership style.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP AND SKILLS
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................3
2.0 Role of motivation in project management...............................................................................3
3.0 Development of motivation.......................................................................................................7
4.0 Role of leadership and communication in the motivational process.........................................9
4.1 Role of leadership..................................................................................................................9
4.2 Role of communication........................................................................................................11
5.0 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................14

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1.0 Introduction
The report is based on discussing the role of motivation into the project management to
identify how the staffs are motivated to work in the organization. This report discusses the role
of two project members those are not effectively work into the project. One is Tom, who has
limited experience to work along with late coming into the office. Tom goes early and spends the
day into talking and surfing the Internet. The other person is Harriet who is an experienced
project manager with considerable levels of skill and ability to work hard. However, Harriet is
not interested to work in this project and continuously called in sick and claimed of family
issues. Dwivedula, Bredillet and Muller (2016) stated that motivation is willingness to apply
high level of efforts towards the organizational goals to satisfy the needs of employees. Bartsch,
Ebers and Maurer (2013) mentioned that leadership is art to motivate group of people to proceed
towards achieving of the organizational goals.
The role of motivation into project management is discussed which is linked with
leadership as well as power. The research will show that use of leadership style provides
detrimental effect on the motivation. After discussing the motivation with its connection with
leadership, the researcher moves to review the sources of motivation helps to motivate people to
work in the project.
2.0 Role of motivation in project management
Kuppuswamy et al. (2017) discussed that the focus of the project management is to shift
from the technical aspects of profession to people oriented facto like motivation. The
motivational level of employees into the organization has provided stronger influence on the