Summary Project Management Year 2

Project Management | Exam Summary
Lecture 1 | Leadership
History of leadership
1950 – personal traits + situational variables
1980 – situational leadership (Hersey & Blanchard)
1986 – organizational leadership = leadership culture
 everyone can be leader in different fields (Barnes & Kriger)
1987 – organizational tasks + interpersonal relations (Hoy & Miskel)
NOW – effective leadership should facilitate development of shared vision and value human
Resources

Definition of leadership
Creating power between people to make a movement happen by making them follow you in the direction of
an idea while also facilitating them in making it an idea of themselves to become committed and capable in
collaborating

Attributes of leadership
 personal traits / qualities / characteristics
 situational variables
 organizational tasks & relations
 individual (one person) or organizational (various persons) leadership
 create a shared vision
 value the human resources (who has which capabilities?)

Legitimation of / reasons for power
 traditional role  contacts & network
 fear & repression  position
 award  personality / charisma
 information / expertise

Situational leadership (Hershey & Blanchard)
 leadership is task-relevant
 style should be adapted to maturity of followers (target of influence)

Directing / Telling Coaching / Selling
 low competence  some competence
 high commitment  low commitment
Delegating Supporting / Participating
 high competence  high competence
 high commitment  variable commitment