ITECH7401 Federation University Australia Team Leadership Blog Discussion By given quality of discussion review of article The blog should look like 1) I

ITECH7401 Federation University Australia Team Leadership Blog Discussion By given quality of discussion review of article

The blog should look like

1) Introduction

2) Analysis

3) Conclusion

4) Lessons for the IT Manager

5) References

the article and example blog also provided ITECH 7401 LEADERSHIP IN IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Assignment 3: Team Leadership Blog
Overview
The purpose of this task is to encourage students to expand their thinking through reading and sharing of their
ideas in a web 2.0 format used by many project managers.
Timelines and Expectations
Percentage Value of Task: 20% (30 marks)
Due: Week 11 – Friday, June 2nd, 2019 by 11:55 pm
Minimum time expectation: Preparation for this task will take approximately 20 hours
Learning Outcomes Assessed
The following course learning outcomes are assessed by completing this assessment:
K5. Research and critique current and future issues in IT project management in a global context.
S2. Demonstrate theoretical and practical implementation of leadership, team building, and performance
management approaches for IT projects.
S3. Utilise decision making and problem solving approaches to resolve and pre-empt range of problems on IT
projects.
A1. Construct written and verbal approaches to developing and presenting IT project
documentation.
Assessment Details
Background
A blog is a discussion or informational site published on the web consisting of regular entries or posts in
chronological order. A blog features diary-type commentary and links to articles on other websites. Many blogs
focus on a particular topic; team blogs will focus on an area of project management leadership.
Blogs are useful for first time and experienced project managers, and are widely used in the industry. The purpose
of your project management leadership blog is to share the results of your research and investigations with other
members of your team, and gather their feedback regarding your thoughts and ideas.
For some examples project management blogs see: http://projectnewstoday.com/2013-top-25-projectmanagement-blogs/
Requirements
Students are required to work in a team (three to 5 members). Each individual student is required to select a
journal article on some area of project management leadership related to the course, or extending the course
ideas, and write a blog reviewing the journal article, providing a critique of the ideas including conclusions and
lessons learned (approximately 1000 words). The review should be supported by references from literature,
demonstrating wider reading and critical thinking.
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Each team member’s blog will be reviewed by the other team members (approximately 100-150 words per review).
Each team member will be required to review two other team member’s blogs.
Each team will submit the aggregated blogs, articles and team members’ reviews. Team blogs maybe created in
Word, in Moodle or some other forum.
NOTE: Each student should confirm the appropriateness of their journal article with the course lecturer and/or
tutor completing this assignment. A list of suggested topic areas is provided below:
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history of project management
leadership and power
project selection methods
project scope management
estimate activity durations
estimate costs
managing project teams
models of change
sources of conflict
project control
Academic Presentation
Blogs should be presented in accordance with:
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General Guide to Referencing: https://federation.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/313328/FEDUNIGENERAL-GUIDE-TO-REFERENCING-2016-EDITION_ed.pdf
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General Guide to Writing and Study Skills: http://federation.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/190044/GeneralGuide-to-Writing-and-Study-Skills.pdf, see p.36.
Submission
For Mt Helen students a blog will be created for your team in moodle (check with your course lecturer). The blog
will be marked within the Moodle shell. Partner students please check with your course lecturer.
Marking Criteria/Rubric
Criteria
Marking Scale
Poor
Excellent
1 ………………….. 5
team – submission of aggregated blogs
individual – quality of discussion review of article
individual – quality of conclusions and lessons learned
individual – evidence of research
individual – copy of journal article
individual – reviews of other student’s blogs conducted and
included
Total Mark
Total Worth
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Feedback
Feedback and marks will be provided in Moodle. Marks will also be available in FDL Marks.
Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is the presentation of the expressed thought or work of another person as though it is one’s own without
properly acknowledging that person. You must not allow other students to copy your work and must take care to
safeguard against this happening. More information about the plagiarism policy and procedure for the university
can be found at http://federation.edu.au/students/learning-and-study/online-help-with/plagiarism
Please refer to the Course Description for information regarding late assignments, extensions, and special
consideration. A reminder all academic regulations can be accessed via the university’s website, see:
http://federation.edu.au/staff/governance/legal/feduni-legislation
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Research Journal of Recent Sciences ________________________________________________ ISSN 2277-2502
Vol. 2(6), 99-102, June (2013)
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Review Paper
Leadership is Vital for Project Managers to Achieve Project Efficacy
Ahmed Riaz1*, Masood Muhammad Tahir2 and Azmi Noor3
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COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, PAKISTAN
Department of Leadership and Management Studies, National Defense University, Islamabad, PAKISTAN
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Faculty of Management and Human Resource Development, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor Bahru, MALAYSIA
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Available online at: www.isca.in
Received 9th December 2012, revised 1st January 2013, accepted 31st January 2013
Abstract
The aim of this article is to highlight the significance of leadership skills that are vital for project managers while
managing projects effectively and efficiently. An interesting observation has been noted from literature in the field of
project management that research on leadership of project managers is still limited even though calls have been made to
conduct more research for more than one decade. It becomes important to understand and adopt leadership skills and
competences to cope with modern challenges of project which affect on success or failure of project. The function of
project managers is rapidly evolving from managing or directing to leading the projects who must possess essential
knowledge, skills, and new emerging concept of leadership. The utility of project management will be more exciting,
challenging and critical in coming years, while the position of project manager will also be much more diverse. Future
research has been suggested in similar field.
Keywords: Leadership, project management, project manager, management, project.
Introduction
The objective of this paper is to explore the leadership role of
project manager which has largely been ignored in literature that
is noted through an observation that research on project
manager’s leadership is still limited1. It is becoming difficult to
differentiate between the roles of project manager or leader in
context of leadership and management as well as project
management. Therefore, it becomes important to understand the
differences between project leadership and project management,
to determine the effect of project leadership performance on
success or failure of project2. The project leadership needs
attention in project management literature, even though calls
have been made for more research on project leadership3. It is
momentous to determine the effectiveness of project success by
recognizing the distinction between the leadership and
management roles of project managers4.
Role of a Project Manager
This article is an effort to address new emerging challenge of
leadership demonstrated by the project managers in project
management perspective. The role of project managers revealed
significant influence on project success through different
studies5 but literature has largely ignored to consider the impact
of project manger’s leadership on project success as one of the
key project success factors6, although few project management
practices have been exercised and few abandoned, but no
empirical research has been conducted to determine association
between project manager’s leadership and teamwork5. The
imminent effects of leadership skills and contextual factors in
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context of leaders while managing important activities
associated with planning for organizational change through
effective management of projects needs to be addressed7.
Leadership is a vital factor of effective management but its
function and direct influence on project success or failure in
term of internal and external factor has not been addressed in
literature even leadership performance founded moderately
ambivalent2. The swiftly rising change of manager’s leadership
characteristics and behaviors influence the success or failure in
organizational change7 and relationship between leadership
characteristics or behaviors and organizational changes has been
explored over more than last two decades8. The essential
leadership and managerial knowledge, skills, competencies and
characteristics ensure successful completion of projects through
right decisions at right time and by employing right people at
right places4.
The leadership fundamental function is to produce change and
set direction to cope with change which is not similar to
planning or long-term planning, but perplexity between both
often take place among people9. A large number of studies have
been explored to identify leadership traits and characteristics,
including personality, abilities, physical factors, knowledge,
dominance, and self confidence, as the list goes on3, but there
are no common traits, behavior or processes which can identify
the qualities of an effective leader10. Leadership style and
personal traits have been determined as critical success factor
for failure or success of a project, in most of research2,11.
The project leaders motivate and inspire people by satisfying
their basic human needs instead of pushing them in right
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direction because burst of energy is required for achieving grand
vision9. The significance of leadership being a requisite for
project excellence has been accorded throughout the literature of
project management12 and a mean for motivating people for
change13 which is influential for overall project ethnicity14.
Project staff leaded by strong leadership possessed by project
managers ensures their contribution towards project success
with a great deal of dedication, commitment, significance and
accomplishment of project objectives15. Leadership motivate
group member for ensuring to improve project outcomes
through performing at higher level which might not happen
otherwise15 and one of the key principal of leadership is to turn
project managers into leader by making them responsible for
project outcomes16.
Role of Leadership versus Management
In latter part of the last century, management’s two “children”
evolved into leadership and project management fields17. It is
commonly assumed that everyone in management position is a
leader and leaders are not concerned to manage but leadership is
performed by the people even though not in management
positions18. Management practices are considered for many
centuries as planning, organizing, directing, and controlling.
Management skills were required for all mega events including
building Great Wall of China, preparing armies for battle, and
running the Roman Empire. Traditionally, management was
viewed as an art that transferred from generation to generation
until late nineteen centuries and science of management has also
developed in last hundred years17.
It is difficult to differentiate between leadership and
management that which is necessarily better because both have
their own characteristics and functions which are necessary for
success of any increasingly multifaceted
and capricious
business environment9. Leadership and management are
involved in a unique set of functions or activities18 and this issue
was addressed in a landmark article published by Abraham
Zaleznik in Harvard Business Review in 1977. Both leaders
and managers have valuable contribution for organization and
nature of each one’s contribution is different18. Leadership does
the right things and management does things right18. Mostly
scholars argued that overlap exist between leadership and
management but both the activities are not synonymous19 and
degree of overlapping between both the terms is a point of
disagreement8.
Role of Leadership in Project Management
There is an important endeavor for research on project
manager’s leadership through the field of project management
as it is essential that project management field must take the
responsibility for development of apt theories of project
leadership either using deductive approach or inductive
approach1. Since mid 1940, project management is considered
one of the key activity for business success in modern
organization and projects have achieved immense attention from
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researchers as combined projects frame for the organization’s
future1. Time, budge, and quality are three dimensions of project
success in many definitions of project management success2,20.
Quality of project management processes, leadership
performance, and satisfaction of project stakeholder’s
expectations are also needed to be considered as time, budget
and quality are insufficient for measuring project success are
also other dimensions of project success21,22.
Leadership is an effective tool to be used by the project manager
which moderately influence project outcome, otherwise, lack of
leadership skills are directly associated with project failure 2.
The prediction about functions of the project managers in future
to become key players in organizational world23 has been come
to reality24. The project managers articulate clear vision of
project and communicate to project team in order to create a
project strategy well connected to business strategy16. The
project manager is an emergence of new professional and there
has been a continuous dialogue about what a project manager or
leader does23.
Role of Leader versus Project Manager
There is a real difference exist between leadership and project
manager
in complex working environment but yet a
complementary relationship between these two roles are
supposed to be performed by the project manager3. An intrigue
distinction between leader and project manager roles identified
by Bennis25 is that “a leader does the right things
(effectiveness); a manager does things right (efficiency)”, while
project leader create vision for project, bring together the
resources, and provide motivation and inspiration to project
stakeholders in doing the right things to achieve the project
objectives3. Leaders focus on what needs to be done while
managers focus on how things get done, namely “leaders do the
right things and managers do things right”16.
Typically, leaders are coping with transformation while
managers are dealing with intricacy9 but it is the need of the day
to possess both skills to cope with fast growing competitive and
volatile challenges of 21st century. A leader creates change and
serves subordinates while manager handle change and serves
super-ordinates18. The leaders manage changes while managers
handle complexity26. Leaders and managers, both are needed to
the organizations but each one perform in a different role27,
followed with enumeration of distinction between leaders and
manager in beginning28.
The managers and leaders differ from their chaos, psyches, and
order. The project managers embrace process, hold stability and
control, and intuitively try to quickly solve problems even
sometimes before fully understanding the significance of
problem. On the other hand, the leaders tolerate chaos and
don’t make decision before fully understanding the issues28. The
good managers or leaders must be responsible for two
approaches – vision and execution, direction and planning as
everyone can perform equally good both at leading and
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managing the projects16. In a nutshell, leaders cope with change,
creating a vision, setting direction and building motivation and
inspiration, while managers are concerned to bring a degree of
order and consistency through organizing, planning, budgeting
and staffing9.
Role and Significance of Project Leadership
Project management refers to project activities of planning and
organizing through decision making process which enhance
effectiveness and efficiency of project. Leadership, in contrast,
is a process of leading others for achievement of project
objectives “motivating and guiding people to realize their
potential and achieve tougher and challenging organizational
goals”11. A strong project leaders is required to deal with
administrative or bureaucratic projects but it does not mean that
strong leader is always a more successful leader29. Any strong
leadership with week management and vise versa is always not
better for good results but actual challenge is to use combination
of strong management and strong leadership for balancing each
other9.
The leadership traits are invariably associated with project
leadership in contrast to project management, difference of
which has been discussed throughout in the literature of project
management5. It is imperative to comprehend the differences
between project leadership and project management, to
determine the effect of leadership performance on success or
failure of project2. Project leadership is the ability to lead in
most powerful manner while leading the others in project
work30. Project leadership impact on improving project
management practices in order to reduce uncertainty and
complexity associated with project pursuit31. To achieve project
objectives in complex working environment, vibrant leadership
induces the need of change, inspire for new ways of thinking
and problem solving, and motivate for working together2,11.
The role of project leader can be illustrated through combination
of leadership and managerial roles as well as internal and
external roles1. The first dimension of project manager is
leadership and management roles 32 while second dimension is
based on internal and external roles1. Planning and execution
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