MGT5PLS Project Leadership

Purpose and aims

This assignment aims at group learning and comprehension, to realise if students understand how to critically analyse challenges that a project leader may meet while running a project. More importantly, students would discuss how the leader may tackle these challenges and what key points they would recommend for similar incidents in future. This assessment helps student understand how to solve project leadership issues in the form of a working group.

Description of assessment

Select a person involved in a leadership role on a well-known public project. Conducting your own research from publicly available information about this leader, analyse the leadership approach taken. Write an academic report of approximately 1500 words and answer the following questions:

1. What style of leadership did this leader deploy?
2. What was the effectiveness (or otherwise) of the leadership behaviours displayed?
3. What impact did these leadership behaviours have on the project across its lifecycle?
4. How does your analysis compare to the concepts and literature examined in this subject?

Be sure to link your observations or deductions to the key concepts covered in this subject in terms of general leadership theory and practice, within the specific context of project management.