The Impact of Leadership on Change Management: A Detailed Report

This report delves into the significant role of leadership in change and project management, emphasizing its importance for successful implementation. It highlights how effective leadership enhances organizational capabilities to achieve both short-term and long-term goals, especially in a competitive environment. The report discusses various leadership styles, such as transformational and participatory leadership, and their impact on employee motivation, productivity, and overall project success. It analyzes key articles focusing on leadership skills, communication, and strategy formulation, concluding that strong leadership is essential for navigating complexities, mitigating risks, and fostering a positive work environment. The report underscores the importance of leadership in generating enthusiasm, building positive sentiments, and ensuring the timely and efficient completion of projects. It also emphasizes the significance of interpersonal skills, decision-making, and conflict resolution in effective leadership.

Change management
and leadership
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 4
MAIN BODY 4
CONCLUSION 6
REFERENCES 8
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INTRODUCTION
Leadership in change management or project management plays important role for
successful implementation. Leadership in change management enhance capability of
organisation management in order to accomplish long as well as short term goal. As the
level of competition is increasing day by day so appropriate leadership style will leads
towards proper direction in each project or change management. This will acts as inspiration
or motivation so that each employee will maximise their performance at greater level and
each project will done in pre determine time. It will improve culture of company in and
deliver suitable guidance in order to fulfill long term goal of company. Effective leadership
must have their own proper styling or form of leadership that simplify complexities of
project management. This will improve proper flow of communication that is necessary for
execution any business project. Productive leadership style contributes effective style of
leadership that inspire employee for more supporting efforts in favor of company. This will
upgrade good public image and overall productivity of company. Strong leadership leads
towards strategy formulation towards success of project management and reduce the risk at
each stage in order to deliver maximum optimum results in successful competition of
project.
MAIN BODY
Article Author Key Focus
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1 Article (Maqbool,2017) Leaders in project
management have to handle
all task and meet specific
requirement. The main four
matrix of leadership like
reactive people, task
management leadership.
Proactive people, task in
management leadership.
2 Article (Latif, 2020) Leaders transformation in
favour of company by
generating team building
effective in order perform all
task of project.
3Article (Kerzner,2017) There are major skill that
every leaders must have for
project execution such as
innovation, seek challenges,
motivate, influence other for
doing right job.
4 Article (Heldman, 2018) Leaders boost the interest of
employee for successful
completion of project in
favour of company.
5 Article (Ding, 2017) All the task is coordinated in
each department of project
with the help of Leadership in
project management.
6 Article (Srivastava, 2017) Leaders generate enthusiasm
and build positive sentiment
so that each employee will
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work in proper coordination.
7 Article (Madsen,2019) Through proper guidance of
leaders in project, productivity
get increase.
8 Article (Cicmil,2019) Leaderships aims towards
build unique and productive
outcome of project through
maximum utilisation of
potential.
9 Article (Lusiani,2019) The goal of leaders is to brings
positivity so that relation of
employee management and
consumer gets improvised.
10 Article (Oh,2019) Through appropriate guidance
of leader, all task of project
will complete on time.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that there is a great importance in leadership
in project management. The leadership is type of skill that need to be improvised in order to
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successful completion of project. Through effective form of leaders company can manage
the behaviour of employee in more effective and efficient way. By adopting appropriate
form of leadership this will leads towards recognised time management of work in more
harmonious way. This will also contributes innovative and productive idea so that each
project will deliver more valuable result in favour of company. With the guidance of
leadership proper training of employee will leads towards optimum utilising with the interest
of company success. Good leaders will push towards great difference in project
management. Technical skills is important and good leadership connect as well as create
productive working environment. The visionary leadership style is most effective tool as it
aids in achieving long term aims of project completion. This is one type of balance approach
that is adopted by organisation for each stage in effective manner. Another leadership style
is participated leadership style aims towards new idea generation while commit best
collective work and reduce complexities. The affiliate leadership style contributes harmony
by establishing strong connection among management and workforce. The coaching
leadership form build unique features of project and encourage strength as well as remove
weakness of project. There is a great role of leadership in project management that combines
wide range so that each activity will coordinated in more effective and efficient manner.
There is some essential skills of leadership that leads towards effective flow leadership style
such as interpersonal skills, enthusiasm, positive attitude, honesty, decision making and risk
taking etc. A effective leader knows how to solve many conflict that may occur while
implementing project task. The proper direction of leadership improve motivation level of
employee so that each employee will raise the level of productivity. The subordinate also
puts their valuable efforts in order to complete the project in given time period. This will
contributes healthy and positive attitude in working pattern of employee.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Cicmil, S and et.al., 2017, April. Exploring the complexity of projects: Implications of
complexity theory for project management practice. Project Management Institute.
Ding, X and et.al., 2017. Linking transformational leadership and work outcomes in temporary
organizations: A social identity approach. International Journal of Project
Management, 35(4), pp.543-556.
Heldman, K., 2018. Project management jumpstart. John Wiley & Sons.
Kerzner, H., 2017. Project management metrics, KPIs, and dashboards: a guide to measuring and
monitoring project performance. John Wiley & Sons.
Latif, K.F and et.al., 2020. Impact of entrepreneurial leadership on project success: mediating
role of knowledge management processes. Leadership & Organization Development
Journal.
Lusiani, M. and Langley, A., 2019. The social construction of strategic coherence: Practices of
enabling leadership. Long Range Planning, 52(5), p.101840.
Madsen, S., 2019. The power of project leadership: 7 keys to help you transform from project
manager to project leader. Kogan Page Publishers.
Maqbool, R and et.al., 2017. The impact of emotional intelligence, project managers’
competencies, and transformational leadership on project success: An empirical
perspective. Project Management Journal, 48(3), pp.58-75.
Oh, J., Lee, H. and Zo, H., 2019. The effect of leadership and teamwork on ISD project
success. Journal of Computer Information Systems.
Srivastava, P. and Jain, S., 2017. A leadership framework for distributed self-organized scrum
teams. Team performance management: An international journal.
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