University Project Management: Leadership in IT Report

This report delves into the critical aspects of leadership within IT project management, drawing insights from an analysis of a research article. The core focus is on leadership emergence in multicultural teams, highlighting global characteristics such as cultural intelligence, global identity, and openness to cultural diversity. The report examines how these characteristics influence leadership emergence within project teams and their impact on project success. It discusses the challenges faced by global organizations in coordinating diverse teams and emphasizes the importance of understanding cross-cultural perspectives. The report also explores the practical applications for IT managers, emphasizing the need for cultural leadership and the development of global characteristics within project leaders to successfully navigate diverse teams. Furthermore, the report includes two peer reviews which provide feedback on the quality of the report, highlighting the importance of effective leadership in multicultural teams. The assignment is based on the provided assignment brief which requires students to write a blog overview on the topic of team leadership.

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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Lisak, A., & Erez, M. (2015). Leadership emergence in multicultural teams: The power
of global characteristics. Journal of World Business, 50(1), 3-14.
Introduction
The article mainly reflects on the emergence of leadership within the multicultural
team which is considered as one of the important as well as global characteristics. It is found
that proper development of theories related with person development which generally fits on
the various pattern based approach. Proper emergent leaders within the multicultural team
generally scores much higher as compared to the non-leaders in context to the three different
global characteristics for cultural intelligence, global identity as well as proper openness to
the diversity of the culture. Moreover, in this particular hypothesis is generally tested based
on the sample of 317 students who are mainly engaged within a four week joint project
within the virtual multicultural team. In addition to this, it is analyzed that employing o the
logistic regression analysis which helps in revealing that the various individuals who
generally scored very high based on three different characteristics are generally emerge as
leaders other than the project teams.
Analysis
From the paper, it is analyzed that global organizations generally face a number of
challenges that generally helps in creating synergy diverse as well as geographical
subsidiaries that are dispersed which further coordinates the activities for achieving effective
benefit within the entire business (Shamir & Eilam-Shamir, 2018). There is generally limited
amount of empirical studies based on the global leadership and almost it is found that there is
no empirical studies on multicultural leadership. The entire research that is based on
leadership as well as culture further assumes that appropriate cross-cultural perspectives are
generally present for successfully examining the various types of differences as well as

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similarities that is mainly based on the concepts of leadership-based characteristics based on
the culture (Northouse, 2017). It is analyzed from the paper that leadership can generally be
emerged in three different ways that are studying emergence of the multicultural team,
studying phenomenon that is not earlier studied as well as differentiating different types of
emergent leaders. The three objectives can generally be achieved by using four different lines
of research including the leadership emergence, pattern approach as multicultural team as
well as person environment fit related approach.
The study that is designed generally helps in enabling the assessing of various types
of global characteristics that are generally formed with the help of the project team members
for testing the team that generally emerged as one of the leader that generally has higher level
of characteristics in comparison to other team members (Komives & Wagner, 2016). It is
found that such type of design is very much difficult to achieve within the various global
organizations where the various multicultural team uses different stages of the maturity. The
design generally helps in testing the hypothesis which generally has proper level of the
cultural intelligence (Robertson, 2016).
In addition to this, it is revealed from the present study that global individual
characteristics are very much important for the proper emergence of leadership within the
various multicultural teams (Heifetz & Linsky, 2017). The HR departments of the
organizations generally considered different types of efforts while selecting the training
expatriates. Moreover, it is analyzed that the HR programs within the global organizations
generally focuses on the knowledge that is generally based on the behaviours as well as
norms which are generally relevant to specific cultures (Sanders, 2017). These programs are
generally helpful in engaging within the cross-cultural perspective as they generally
emphasize various types of similarities as well as differences in the values as well as
behaviours that generally exists between different organizations.

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It is analyzed from the paper that the first study that is generally conducted to
empirically examine the emergence of the various multicultural teams in context to leadership
(Garrow, 2015). It is analyzed that is without appropriate leadership that further helps in
acting as one of the important reference points for the various studies that will generally be
conducted in the coming future. In addition to this, the study also helps in examining the
various types of global characteristics which generally differentiates among the various
emergent leaders within the entire multicultural team (Jaques, 2017). However, it is found
that the paper does not properly examines the characteristics which generally helps in shaping
the the entire procedure o trust as well as cooperation very much effectively.
Conclusion
The entire study that was undertake generally helps in focussing in order to
successfully examine the global characteristic that is based on emergent leader in context to
the multicultural team. The various types of characteristics including the cultural identity as
well as openness’s to the diversity generally assists in enabling the leader for successfully
navigating the entire team in global context.. The various characteristics including the
cultural intelligence, global identity as well as openness to the diversity generally helps in
enabling the leader to properly navigate the entire team in global context effectively. The
various types of qualities are generally reflected in such a way that a single individual is
generally interacting with the other on the basis of multicultural aspects. In addition to this,
the paper also helps in highlighting the predictive power in comparison to various types off
independent traits. Moreover, the study also helps in highlighting the practical application of
training the global members as well as global leaders.

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Lessons for the IT Manager
From the entire study, there are different types of lessons that an IT manager can be
able to learn. It is learnt from the paper that proper leadership is required within the
multicultural teams in context to the power of global characteristics. It is analyzed that a
leader must have certain characteristics including cultural diversity, openness to diversity a
well as proper global identity for becoming a global leader for properly navigating the project
team. All the characteristics must be present within the IT manger so that the team members
can elect them as a leader. Moreover, it is analyzed that proper cultural leadership is
important as well as quite necessary.

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References
Garrow, D. J. (2015). Bearing the cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the southern Christian
leadership conference. Open Road Media.
Heifetz, R., & Linsky, M. (2017). Leadership on the line, with a new preface: Staying alive
through the dangers of change. Harvard Business Press.
Jaques, E. (2017). Requisite organization: A total system for effective managerial
organization and managerial leadership for the 21st century. Routledge.
Komives, S. R., & Wagner, W. (Eds.). (2016). Leadership for a better world: Understanding
the social change model of leadership development. John Wiley & Sons.
Northouse, P. G. (2017). Introduction to leadership: Concepts and practice. Sage
Publications.
Robertson, J. (2016). Coaching leadership: Building educational leadership capacity
through partnership. New Zealand Council for Educational Research. PO Box 3237,
Wellington 6140 New Zealand.
Sanders, J. O. (2017). Spiritual leadership: Principles of excellence for every believer.
Moody Publishers.
Shamir, B., & Eilam-Shamir, G. (2018). “What’s your story?” A life-stories approach to
authentic leadership development. In Leadership Now: Reflections on the Legacy of
Boas Shamir(pp. 51-76). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Spears, L. C., & Lawrence, M. (Eds.). (2016). Practicing servant-leadership: Succeeding
through trust, bravery, and forgiveness. John Wiley & Sons.

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Review 1:
Hi <Please fill your name>
I want to say that the paper that is selected here is vey good. The entire review on the
leadership is done properly with very much nice solution which is further portraying the
significance of leadership in the project. I am very much impressed the way in which the
entire paper is generally presented and the ways in which that are reflected for leading the
project within multicultural teams. Moreover, I like to insistent that effective leadership
within the multicultural team is considered as one of the keys for achieving success by
maintaining the cultural diversity within the project team.
Thank you,
Review 2:
Hi <Please fill your name>
The article that is generally selected is properly reflecting the importance of
leadership skills within the multicultural team. The way in which the entire paper is
reviewing is quite appealing. The leadership characteristics which are highlighted in this
paper are very much impressive and it given proper idea bout how to deal with the
multicultural team within the project. The overall work that is done is very good and I am
impressed.
Thank you,