Impact of Leadership Styles on Project Team Performance and Success

This report delves into the dynamics of leadership and power within project management, focusing on how a project manager's influence shapes team performance and ultimately, project success. It examines the concept of referent power, highlighting how a leader's charisma and ability to serve as a role model can significantly impact team members. The report discusses the practical application of this power, emphasizing the importance of consistent behavior and adherence to established standards. It further analyzes the correlation between a project manager's leadership style and team productivity, highlighting how effective leadership can increase the likelihood of project success. The report also contrasts influence and manipulation, stressing the importance of ethical leadership. Finally, it underscores the benefits of diverse influence sources within a team, promoting effective information sharing and streamlined communication channels. The report uses references to support its claims.

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
Organizational Behaviour and People Management
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Table of Contents
One or more of the types of power demonstrated positively or negatively by the leader of
the team..................................................................................................................................2
Discussion about how project manager can use this type of power.......................................2
Impact on the performance of the project team.....................................................................2
Likelihood of project success.................................................................................................2
Benefits to be gained from using more than one source of influence when leading a team. .3
Difference between influence and manipulation....................................................................3

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One or more of the types of power demonstrated positively or negatively by the
leader of the team
One of the powers of a project manager is to be referent, which is a power of a project
manager to display charisma and fame (Rezvani et al., 2016). This is the way by which a
project manager present or put some example of them so that the other team members can be
influence by their activities respect him or her or want to be like him or her.
Discussion about how project manager can use this type of power
To display the certain kind of power the project manager should maintain the proper
way in which theoretically a project manager should perform or maintain themselves. This is
also represented with the help of proper self management and going by the books when it
comes to performing any task and be recognised for it.
Impact on the performance of the project team
This power of a project manager certainly has a huge impact on the performance of
the project team as having charisma and fame makes entire team be influenced by the project
manager and follow their zone of work out the way in which they represent themselves.
Trying to be ideal as the project manager raises the productivity of a team. This happens
when the project manager behaves in the most theoretically ideal way possible.
Likelihood of project success
Rising in productivity and being the most ideal and theoretically perfect in performing
a specific kind of task makes the likelihood of a project success be extremely possible.

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Benefits to be gained from using more than one source of influence when leading
a team
When a team is influenced by more than one source then the sharing of information is
effective in the entire team as the team would not be confused about the way in which they
have to report to the hierarchical bodies. Having more than one source of influence in leading
a team would impact positively within a project team.
Difference between influence and manipulation
Influence is a process by which a person can make another imitate or be keen on
thinking for performing any task in the similar way that they have thought or performed the
specific task. On the other hand manipulation is a way of influencing a person in performing
specific kinds of work only for their personal gains (Tedeschi, 2017).

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References
Rezvani, A., Chang, A., Wiewiora, A., Ashkanasy, N. M., Jordan, P. J., & Zolin, R. (2016).
Manager emotional intelligence and project success: The mediating role of job
satisfaction and trust. International Journal of Project Management, 34(7), 1112-
1122.
Tedeschi, J. T. (2017). The social influence processes. Routledge.