University Project Management: Leadership Discussion Response Analysis

This document presents a student's response to a discussion on leadership in project management, focusing on the importance of balancing analytical capabilities with stakeholder engagement. The student critiques initial posts, emphasizing the need for effective communication and collaborative functioning to mitigate risks and maximize project success. The response also addresses the balance between leadership and managerial control, highlighting the potential impact on project operations. The student references several research papers to support their arguments, providing a well-reasoned analysis of the discussed topics. The assignment fulfills the requirements of the PRST325 Leadership in Project Management course, including initial and response posts with follow-up questions.

Running head: LEADERSHIP IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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Name of the student
Name of the university
Author note

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Individual posts
 First post response
Justin Safee stated in the post that the effectiveness of a project manager is specifically based on
the analytical capability of the same other than engaging with their team members. However, I
believe that the leaders or the managers must take steps to engage with the different stakeholders
with the objective of inducing the collaborative functioning of the same. The collaborative
functioning of the different stakeholders would enable the leader or the manager I maintaining
the efficiency of the project while observing the common objectives of the project. Kucharska
and Kowalczyk (2016) stated that communication supports a project manager in not only
mitigating the issues that are being faced by the employees or the stakeholders but also to
influence the same to achieve their individual targets for uninterrupted functioning as per the
project parameters. The key changes that are initiated by the organizations or the project
managers are reliant on the feedbacks that are gathered by the same from the stakeholders. In this
relation, I believe that Safee must take steps to develop communication skills with the objective
of undertaking interactions with the different stakeholders. Interactions with the stakeholders will
not only ensure the lower rate of risks in the project but also encourage the stakeholders to get
involved in the organizational processes for maximizing the scope of success. The different
changes in the organizational operations are reliant on the collaborative functioning of the
project managers with the different stakeholders. Therefore, I believe that the increased
communicability would certainly enable Safee in developing the range of project based
operations.
 Second post response

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In the post, Michelle Page, developed a cohesive structure on the manner in which the leaders
and the managers contribute to a project with their combined efforts. The different aspects of
leadership and managerial operations are being detailed in the post for the better understanding
of the different contributions made by the same to the projects. However, I believe that the issues
that might be faced by the individuals while operating as a manager and a leader simultaneously
is not being addressed abundantly in the post. The ability to balance the different criterion of
managers and leaders might create an impact on the operations of the project managers. In this
relation, the different considerations that are initiated by the Project managers should be focused
on improving the rate of operations of the venture while operating in the different markets. Zhao,
Hwang and Lee (2016) opined that balanced functioning of the project managers as leaders and
operational heads largely contributes to the success factors of a project. Page mainly focused on
the charismatic behavior of the leaders while there are several other characteristics that forms the
essence of perfect leadership. On the other hand, the convergence of managers and leaders into
actions as per the needs of the projects are necessary, although that is critical to control and
balance. The major issue that is being elaborated by Page is related to the lack of efficient
balance in leadership and managerial control resulting to unfavorable consequences for the
project.

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References
Chiu, C.Y.C., Balkundi, P. and Weinberg, F.J., 2017. When managers become leaders: The role
of manager network centralities, social power, and followers' perception of leadership. The
Leadership Quarterly, 28(2), pp.334-348.
Kucharska, W. and Kowalczyk, R., 2016. Trust, collaborative culture and tacit knowledge
sharing in project management–A relationship model. Kucharska, W., & Kowalczyk, pp.159-166.
Maqbool, R., Sudong, Y., Manzoor, N. and Rashid, Y., 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.
Zhao, X., Hwang, B.G. and Lee, H.N., 2016. Identifying critical leadership styles of project
managers for green building projects. International Journal of Construction Management, 16(2),
pp.150-160.