Project Team Leadership

Running Head: Project Team Leadership
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND
MGT8074 PROJECT TEAM LEADERSHIP
ASSIGNMENT 2
Due date: 26/10/2018

Project Team Leadership
Executive Summary
With the ramified economic changes, the role of the leadership has been gaining
momentum throughout the time. This report focuses on the aspects of the leadership and its
alignment with the organization’s goals and objectives., The leadership plays a pivotal role in the
business success of the organization. The report focuses on leadership impact on organization
success and growth, diversity in the busienss culture and strengthing the project team leadership.
The leadership theory and practice are imperative for the business success and organizational
effectiveness in the long run. The project team leadership is used by the team leaders to influence
the employees to work in a team. Employees are the key pillar of the business and if leaders
could positively influence them they it will result to cost leadership, product differentiation and
other core competency of the business. It will also help company to compete with the rivals in
market. The Telstra Company has been indulged in providing the telecommunication services to
clients around the globe and can easily compete with the rivals only when it develop core
competency in cost leadership and product diffrenciation strategy in market. It could be
developed by chaning its business policies, re-engineering of its value chain activities and
installing new technologies in its business process.
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Project Team Leadership
Table of Contents
Executive Summary.....................................................................................................................................2
1. Introduction........................................................................................................................................4
2. Organisational context........................................................................................................................4
3. Project team leadership.......................................................................................................................5
4. Identifying and analysing project stakeholders...................................................................................7
5. Building and managing relationships with project stakeholders.........................................................9
6. Human resources and diversity.........................................................................................................11
7. Findings & Recommendations..........................................................................................................13
Recommendations.....................................................................................................................................13
References.................................................................................................................................................15
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Project Team Leadership
1. Introduction
This report has been prepared on the leadership intents and theory which could be used
by the leaders to positively influence the employees in their work process system. The main
purpose of this report is to implement the critical analysis on the Project team leadership done
on the leadership theory and collaborative and productive project team environment by analyzing
the positive and negative factors which have directly and indirectly has resulted to changes in the
work process of the employees in the organization. and its alignment with the different
leadership theories. Additionally, this research report is helpfulll to analysis the facts and issues
given in the report prepared on the leadership and its related theories. In addition to this, it also
focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of the leadership which could be used to
implement the further research study on the implementation of the leadership role in
organization. Leaders need to analyze the key factors which may directly and indirectly influence
the employees and their work. Leaders are the backbone of the organization and they take
imperative decisions to positively influence the employees. They also push team development to
create synergy in the business process. This research report covers the qualitative and qualitative
data on the leadership theories and details given on the Telstra Company
2. Organisational context
The leadership theories and other details has been given in the assignment shows the deep
understanding on how leaders should act and how company could grow on the basis of the
leader’s directions. The Telstra Company has been indulged in providing the telecommunication
services to clients around the globe. With the expansion of its business, the complexity to
manage the work functioning is also increasing the throughout the time. It is analyzed that the
project is based on the analyzing leadership theories in context with the business process system
of the Telstra Company (Turner, and Müller, 2015).
Edited
This report reviews the team leadership characteristics in a project of an Australian
Telecommunication company, Telstra Corporation. The Company has been providing the
telecommunication services to clients around the globe, and with the expansion of its business,
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