Project Management and Team Leadership Report - 5HX509 Module

This report provides an in-depth analysis of project management and team leadership, focusing on their distinct roles and responsibilities within the project lifecycle. It contrasts the functions of project managers, who oversee planning, execution, and control, with those of team leaders, who inspire and guide team members. The report highlights the significant impact of teamwork on construction projects, emphasizing how it fosters creativity, promotes risk-handling, enhances conflict resolution, and builds trust among team members. Furthermore, it justifies the importance of effective management and leadership in achieving project goals and concludes with a reflection on the learning experiences gained from the project, underscoring the critical role of teamwork and leadership in ensuring project success.

Project Management and Team
Leadership

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Difference between manager and leadership team..........................................................................4
Teamwork impact on construction project..................................................................................6
Justification..................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
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REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Project management is process of giving direction in a way to achieve its respective
objective with the project criteria and parameters. The primary focus of project management to
give direction to get the goal. Team leadership is a process of providing guidance, inspiration,
instruction to a group of people. This report will evaluate the explanation of procedures,
techniques, systems for better team management at different levels of project than it will evaluate
the ability that will lead to successful team work and engineering the project setting in different
range of team. it will further measure the deep knowledge management and leadership help in
personal development and documents needed for personal development (Ломако, Ю, 2019).
MAIN BODY
Difference between manager and leadership team

Project manager: The project manager have vital role in process of planning, executing,
monitoring, controlling and many more. The project manager are responsible for entire project
scope, team management, success and the failure of all the projects.
Team Leadership: the effective leader are try to see all the functions that are performed by its
assigned team. Basically the role of leader towards its team is guidance, influence and provide
direction so that the team can easily achieve its target (Vanhoucke, 2018).
The project manager and leaders used to manage its team so it has different roles and
responsibilities to perform its duties that are span in different stage of project cycle there are five
stage in the project cycle this are:
Initiate phase: In the initiate phase project manager generally uses to integrate its management
and build its project name, purpose of project, the budget of project, project scope as well as its
risk and its team role & responsibilities (Hoegl and Muethel, 2016). The project manager used to
identify its shareholder who are going to invest in project. Whereas leader used to provide vision
and mission to its group people and inspire team people to be positive towards the work and
Illust
ration 1: role of project manager
Source: educba, 2020

leader are communicated the work to its group people in effective manner so that when the
project get started they are fully motivated towards the work (Zuo and et.al., 2018).
Planning phase: In this phase project manager used to make integration of the management and
develop a plan for project management. Then the manager used to define the scope of project,
made the work breakdown and explain the work to employees under him (Ding, 2016). The
project manager used to manage the time by making schedules, work for employee, estimate the
required resources and duration of completion of task of project. The manager check the budget
according to the work the planning is done keeping in mind required quality, then they check the
needs of human resource to perform the task and evaluate the risk which has been involved while
performing the activities for the project. Whereas leader will go through the group employees
understand the expectations of employee and their motive towards the work. Leader used to
explain the work which have pre-designed by manager. Leaders used to make an additional plan
which is supporting the main plan of manager. Leader apply its innovative ideas in the planning
of the manager.
Executing : The project manager used to do direct the work and also manage the team as well.
The execution includes the inspection of quality and manage accordingly it further develops the
team to meet its requirement of project. The worker communication during the process of task is
also manage by manager. Project manager also manage the shareholder who are going to invest
in the project manage by project manager. Whereas leader used to guide the employees to do
there work in most effective manner, it will try that the resource which are introduced by
manager are utilized properly in construction project. In this leader check which and every
process of the construction project to lead the team accordingly and efficiently.
Monitoring: The project manager used to monitor the task which are being performed by the
team and doing necessary changes which are needed to complete the project in effective manner.
In this phase manager used to control the scope of the respective project to be achieved the
objective. The project manager used to control the budget of the project because all the task has
to be complete in the same budget. Monitoring also include the quality that is delivered while
working for project. The project manager used to control its stakeholder action. Whereas, leader

used to monitor more closely because they are working with employees, and they know more
about the employee's on individual basis and provide needed guidance to employee's. The leader
will give the task to employee's on the basis of there capability which is discovered by leader
while monitoring them.
Closing: In this phase the manager of the project do the closing and pack up of all the task and
activities that are engaged in the project. It also closes all the procurable process under the
project and leadership used to accomplish all the task of the project in effective way.
Teamwork impact on construction project
There are different impacts of teamwork on the construction project, basically team work
refers to interactive method to work with each employee towards achievement of group goal. So
to do the teamwork leader have to build skilled employees to do teamwork because without skill
employees can not able to perform teamwork.
Promote creativity: When a group of people work jointly in the achievement of construction
project tasks. It will lead to creativeness in the working because different brains share their
particular ideas to accomplish the project task (Raziq and et.al., 2018).
Promote risk- handling: working together in construction project lead to promote risk -taking.
The employees in the team used to take their individual responsibilities itself and they try to
solve the problem of other if they are unable to perform their task.
Helps to better conflict-resolution skills: Team is made with different individual which have
their separate skills, they diversity of knowledge of individual will reduce the conflict of the
employee's as the manager and leaders are generally appointed to lead the group of peoples so it
will resolve the problem of conflict in the construction project.
Build faith: teamwork lead to building a favourable trust as the teamwork is also required the
health relationship between all the employees so that they will work with faith with each other.
The group people used to give their individual ideas to other in their work so they got
encouraged to do their task more positively.

Justification
The above detail is reliable because the project manager have the task to manage the
people effectively to accomplish their work and the leader used to inspire and motivate the
people in achievement of their individual and group goal. The project manager used to do their
duty in different phase of project as in the initiating phase they used to develop the project name,
the activities as well as the budget to perform the activities than in planning phase they used to
plan the activities that has to be performed by the employee's and set the scope of the
construction project than in executing phase they execute and direct the work to employee's.
Monitoring phase they control and manage the activities of the employee's. They check the work
is done effectively and if not then they take the required measure to accomplish that work and
leader have its duty closer to the employees they used to inspire and motivate the employees so
that they can positively do their work. Leader uses their innovative ideas towards the work and
employee's (Aga, Noorderhaven and Vallejo, 2016). The teamwork used to affect the
construction project effectively because the teamwork will build trust, improve creativity, handle
the risk more effectively and help to reduce the conflict in the team.
Reflection: As per the above project I have learned about project manager work in the
construction project there roles and responsibilities towards the team as well as the leader roles
and responsibilities towards the group peoples. I have learned the project manager do work to
manage the people in a way that they can achievement the group goal and leader used to
motivate the employees so that they can perform their best in the team. The teamwork will make
the work easy and more perfectly because there are different minds and uniqueness of every
person in their work as well.

CONCLUSION
These report conclude that the role of project manager and project leader plays and
important role in the company to compete the project on time and with efficient and effective
manner. The teamwork which should be carried together to complete the work timely with cost
efficiency and achieve the target goal by the company. It also shows the qualities project
manager and leader that help the company with the smooth working and earn the profits.
Whereas the projects should be done within the budget and cost-efficient with the help of
manager and leaders.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Ломако, Ю. А., 2019. Leader or manager.
Vanhoucke, M., 2018. The data-driven project manager: A statistical battle against project
obstacles. Apress.
Hoegl, M. and Muethel, M., 2016. Enabling shared leadership in virtual project teams: A
practitioners’ guide. Project Management Journal. 47(1). pp.7-12.
Zuo, J and et.al., 2018. Soft skills of construction project management professionals and project
success factors. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management.
Ding, R., 2016. Being a Highly Effective Project Manager. In Key Project Management Based
on Effective Project Thinking(pp. 339-350). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Raziq, M. M and et.al., 2018. Leadership styles, goal clarity, and project success. Leadership &
Organization Development Journal.
Aga, D. A., Noorderhaven, N. and Vallejo, B., 2016. Transformational leadership and project
success: The mediating role of team-building. International Journal of Project
Management. 34(5). pp.806-818.