Assignment Sample on Change Management and Leadership

Introduction

Leaders refers to the higher author in a company and it mainly refers to the team leaders, project managers and CEO of a company. Leaders play essential to provide proper guidance to complete a project. In different organizations, leadership plays different roles to complete the projects in a systematic manner. Hence, it is essential to discover the skills of leaders which is essential to have for project management. In this assignment a critical knowledge will be developed on the basis of ten articles where the common and general factors of leadership will be identified from the perspective of different authors. This assignment will provide the best idea of leadership in different fields of work. On the other hand, the articles of different authors will help to evaluate the multiple techniques of leadership in order to manage projects. Apart from that, it has been identified that different authors prefer different leadership styles for managing projects. In this assignment the views of different authors will be highlighted. This will be helpful to manage projects on organization. The best leadership style and the best leadership style will be concluded at the end of this assignment in the conclusion part.

Summary review of the articles

Title	Author	Aims	Methodology	Summary
A practical, multidisciplinary approach for assessing leadership in project management education.	Mazzetto	The aim is to find the practical approach that includes knowledge and skills of the leader to complete projects.	Primary research	A practical approach has been presented by the author in this article that can be used in different organisations and departments. The author has explained that, in order to complete a project in an organisation, it is essential to find the common goals among the team members and the leader. There is importance of professional practices in the company which is mainly instructed by the leaders. A leader must have managerial skills to achieve success in their specific field. The influence of the leaders plays a major role to achieve success in the company. The author has also explained that in the multidisciplinary collaboration field, there is a role of readership influence between the success of a project and the leadership style. In this research article, the author mostly gave priority to the management skills, responsibilities of leaders, importance of interactions and importance of leader’s experience.
Shared leadership in project teams: An integrative multilevel conceptual model and research agenda.	Scott-Young,Georgy, and Grisinger	Aim is to define shared leadership, identify its multiple levels and find its affection for the team.	Primary research	From the context of project management, the author has explained in this article, that leadership has become a crucial factor in current days as this helps to reduce the complexity at the workplace. As the concept is rare, hence the authors explain the concept of leadership with the help of multi-level conceptual models. This article explains that teamwork is essential for organisational performance and the individual leaders play major in it. There will be proper outcomes of projects if there is a proper team. The systematic literature review of this research article explains that the leaders must provide feedback to their team members regarding the performance. The new areas of leadership have been studied by the author. The concept of shared relationship is effective for performance managers in the perception where the leaders work well for valuable mechanisms in order to manage complex environments in a company.
Impact of transformational leadership on project management assets.	Nusari, Al Falasi, Ghosh, and Isaac.	The aim of this research is to establish a proper idea of transformational leadership in the organizational activity and find out the statistical value of transformational leadership to support a company.	Primary research	In this article the author has explained that leadership is essential to manage the projects and specialty they help to mitigate the challenges in an organisation. There is an explanation of transformational leadership and how it works for project management. The author have used model that explains the independent variables as well as the characters to provide help in project management. It is found as a result that transformational leadership is effective for managing assets of the company. The statistical information has proven that transformational leadership is effective as an independent variable 0.9% for providing value. Also this 7.8% effective by the availability. It is 8.8% active by Imitability and 6.8% effective organisational support.
Transformational leadership and project team members’ silence: the mediating role of feeling trusted.	Zhu, Wang, Yu, Müller, and Sun.	The aim of this research article is to analyze the relation in between the silence behaviour of team and transformational leadership.	Primary research	The authors have explained that communication is the key that helps to complete the projects in an organization. It is important to communicate with the team members where the leaders communicate to provide feedback and share their own ideas for making the projects better. The negative effect of transformational leadership in PTMs, has been explained as well. Here social research has found that there can be trust issues as this acts like a key mediator in between PTMs’ defensive, transformational leadership and prosaically silence. On the other side this PMs is able to get motivated with the help of transformational leadership as it enhances coordination and trust among the leaders and their team. Similarly this can be effective for clearing silence.
Navigating Innovation Success through Projects. Role of CEO Transformational Leadership, Project Management Best Practices, and Project Management Technology Quotient.	Zaman, Nawaz, and Nadeem.	The aim of this study was to find the importance of leadership in the context of innovation across the world as well as in multiple industries. This aim is to shed light on the understanding the impact of PMTQ and PMBP on the success of innovation.	Primary research	In the entire world, the global economy is demanding for professional projects. Though the companies are facing multiple risks regarding project failure. There will be capacity to adopt disruptive technologies for the success of innovation if there is implementation of transformational leadership in the company. The author explained that CTL (CEO transformational leadership) is effective for the PMTQ (project management technology quotient) as well as PMBP (project management best practices). This CTL is also beneficial for multi-dimensional innovation success. CTL is an innovative leadership style where the leaders get encouraged along with their team. The innovation effort is done by CTL along with enhancing commitment.
Leadership And Project Management in Politics.	Nimani, 2020.	The aim of this article is to make the readers realize the importance of the leadership in project management in politics.	Secondary research.	The author has explained in this article that project management in politics includes leadership style. Where they set long term goals in the people’s mind. Similarly, the way people set long term goals in their mind, an organization must set the long term goals in the employees with the help of leaders. This includes proper planning of the projects as well proper control over the projects by leaders. On the other side, leaders plays major role as a central figure where the other employees follow the leader by every word. The author also explained that a political leader works well to motive other and provide solution to reduce conflict. Similarly, the leadership strategy must be applied in the organisation to enhance coordination among the team members by motivating the team during work.
Balanced leadership: A new perspective for leadership in organizational project management.	Müller, Packendor and Sankaran, 2017.	The aim of this paper is to find the main perspective of leadership for managing the organizational activity and projects. The aim is to provide a theoretical justification on leadership.	Secondary research.	The concept of vertical and horizontal leadership has been explained by the author in this article which is considered as the new perspective. This helps to balance the work culture in a company. From a theoretical perspective, leadership can be useful if it is introduced as an interpersonal relationship. The distance between the members and leaders can be improved by using multiple theories. The author also explained that balancing the relationship is essential to complete projects in an effective manner. In order to fulfill the activity of the organisation, it is important to have adjustment among the workers. Here the leadership role is mandatory to emphasize what is appropriate and what is not. There is a depth view and scope of interpersonal relationships. Their synchronization needs cooperation and this can be done by proper leadership strategy.
Impacts of leadership on project-based organizational innovation performance: The mediator of knowledge sharing and moderator of social capital.	Zheng, Wu, and Xie.	The aim of this paper is to find proper leadership strategy to maintain sustainability in the organisation and also the aim is to find the importance of leadership to maintain sustainability in the origination.	Primary research	The author have explained that innovation and leadership depends on each other. If there is more innovation, the business will grow at an intense level. On the other side the process of innovation depends on how the leaders are working on the development of the company. The authors have explained that trans-formal leadership is effective for the organisational function and the innovation. On the other side, this leadership is able to leave a positive impact in performance management and project construction. Rather than that a leader is able to provide better knowledge to the team as well as they help improve performance by establishing themselves as a social capital.
A Meta-Analysis Study Leadership and Project Success.	Damayanti, Hartono, Wijaya, Helmi, and Riyono.	The aim of this article is to do a meta-analysis study on leadership as the leaders are different and the work differently in multiple organizations.	Primary research	The authors have focused on the operational process in the organisation and in the article there is proof of 115 cases across the world where the cases based on total 36 project management cases in the world. On the other hand, the researchers have focused on the contextual factors in the organisation. The article also explains that the external factors leave impact in the organisation activity and on the other side a location influences the style and role of readership. Hence, in order to manage the projects and other organisational activity in the organisation, the leaders must close their team members who share similar goals in the organisation.
Impact of humble leadership on project success: The mediating role of psychological empowerment and innovative work behavior.	Ali, Zhang, Shah, Khan, and Shah.	The aim of this article is to find the role of humble leadership and it works for project management in the organization.	Primary research.	The author have established the psychological empowerment for the success of project. On the other hand, the authors have explained how essential it is to be humble to the team members in the organisation. A polite and humble leader always looks attractive to all the members in an organization. On the other side, transformational leadership can work well as a humble leadership theory where they motivate the employees during the workplace. Also the humble leaders do not act aggressively during any difficult situation. They stays calm during the work and do not scold the team members for their mistakes every time.

Conclusion

Leadership theories are used in different sectors of an organisation in order to enhance efficiency of the workplace and project management. Leadership helps to provide clear value to the employees and reduce confusion regarding the projects and job roles of team members. It is known that employees often feel frustrated during working in an organisation and a proper leadership theory helps to reduce stress and maintain the work environment of a company. A proper leadership theory is able to provide prominent advice to the employees. Also, it enhances communication among the employees regarding the work that can be done in an effective way. It provides proper judgment on the basis of regular work and provides suggestions for further improvement. A leadership theory enhances dedication among the employees for achieving goals in future. Farther more it enhances attachment toward the organisation. A proper leadership strategy provides a barrier and limitation on the organisational activity and it improves a proper work environment for the employees. This leadership theory boosts the motivation among the team members. In transformational leadership theory the leader’s team members always get support from the leader as a mentor and coach. The leader always supports the employees in order to make the team members dedicated towards the project and the organization. For the success of a project the leader always removes any kind of confusion and solves the essential questions regarding the projects in the company. The leader always canary a positivity and influence the employees by spreading encouragement. Also in transformational leadership, the leaders provide creative feedback to the employees that they can do better in the workplace. The leadership is effective for enhancing skills of the employees and as well as the responsibility gets enhanced effectively.

Transformational leadership theory is the most effective theory for project management. It helps the leader to show the proper path to understand the employees in a proper manner. This theory mainly focuses on the behavioural and motivational aspect of the leaders and it is effective to enable the employees to listen to their leaders. In this they leaders showcase their efficiency and help the team members to believe their great leaders. According to this theory the employees are able to enhance their skills and enhance efficiency to become a leader in future. This theory makes the employees believe that leaders are made, they are not born. The staff gets an opportunity to learn in order to become leaders. The employees learn through understanding the behaviour of the leaders and enhance potentiality.

References

Mazzetto, S., 2019. A practical, multidisciplinary approach for assessing leadership in project management education. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education.
Scott-Young, C.M., Georgy, M. and Grisinger, A., 2019. Shared leadership in project teams: An integrative multi-level conceptual model and research agenda. International Journal of Project Management, 37(4), pp.565-581.
Nusari, M., Al Falasi, M., Ghosh, A. and Isaac, O., 2018. Impact of transformational leadership on project management assets. International Journal of Management and Human Science (IJMHS), 2(4), pp.38-51.
Zhu, F., Wang, L., Yu, M., Müller, R. and Sun, X., 2019. Transformational leadership and project team members’ silence: the mediating role of feeling trusted. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business.
Zaman, U., Nawaz, S. and Nadeem, R.D., 2020. Navigating Innovation Success through Projects. Role of CEO Transformational Leadership, Project Management Best Practices, and Project Management Technology Quotient. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 6(4), p.168.
Nimani, A., 2020. Leadership And Project Management in Politics. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL EDUCATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE, 1(1), pp.1-13.
Müller, R., Packendorff, J. and Sankaran, S., 2017. Balanced leadership: A new perspective for leadership in organizational project management. Cambridge handbook of organizational project management.
Zheng, J., Wu, G. and Xie, H., 2017. Impacts of leadership on project-based organizational innovation performance: The mediator of knowledge sharing and moderator of social capital. Sustainability, 9(10), p.1893.
Damayanti, R.W., Hartono, B., Wijaya, A.R., Helmi, A.F. and Riyono, B., 2019, March. A Meta-Analysis Study Leadership and Project Success. In 2018 International Conference on Industrial Enterprise and System Engineering (ICoIESE 2018) (pp. 369-374). Atlantis Press.
Ali, M., Zhang, L., Shah, S.J., Khan, S. and Shah, A.M., 2020. Impact of humble leadership on project success: The mediating role of psychological empowerment and innovative work behavior. Leadership & Organization Development Journal.