Project Manager Leadership Behaviors And Frequency Of Use By Female Project Managers

Download or read book Project Manager Leadership Behaviors and Frequency of Use by Female Project Managers written by Charlotte Neuhauser and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous researchers have identified a range of leadership and managerial behaviors that they believe are most appropriate for managing projects. But much of this research has overlooked the different perspectives held by male and female project managers, perspectives which can shape individual performance. This article examines project management from the female practitioner's point-of-view, discussing the results of a survey which shows the project leadership and managerial behaviors that one group of 62 female project professionals most often rely on while performing their roles. In doing so, it notes this study's four research questions and reviews the research on project leadership, looking at four leadership approaches: transformational, transactional, project management, and gender-specific. It discusses the process of assembling this study's survey, identifying the 50 behaviors listed and the 62 individuals engaged as well as the survey's structure and questions. It then details the survey results, reporting which leadership and managerial behaviors the respondents judged as most important and least important for managing projects and those the respondents noted as least often used and most often used by female project managers. It also looks at how female project managers view themselves in relation to their male counterparts.