Exam 4: Leadership and the Project Manager

Pettersen's study of project managers found that most do not have the capacity to exercise power that derives from formal positional authority and therefore they must develop:

Give two examples each of traditional and nontraditional project champion duties.Which set of duties is more important? Why?

The majority of a champion's time is spent performing the traditional project management duties of leadership,administration,obtaining resources,and coordination and control.

What are the temporal skills discussed in the text and what impact would they have on a project manager's success?

Define the concept of time orientation.What are its implications for project leadership behavior?

Providing the needed motivation for the project team is a nontraditional duty of a project champion.

The facet of partnership that describes the requirement that every worker be responsible for defining the project's vision and goals is called:

What are the differences between task-oriented behavior and group maintenance behavior? Give three examples of each type of behavior.

One way an organization can develop a core of project management professionals is to administer personality tests and match people attuned to project work to projects.

One practical step that should be taken in order for an organization to begin developing a core of project management professionals is to:

Tim slapped together his first web page and proudly showed it to all his colleagues,pointing out what he thought were obvious and overwhelming advantages in simplicity and portability.His championing of web pages that he had read about in a trade journal ultimately shamed everyone else into adopting a web-based approach for all communication and cemented his status as a true:

Comment on the project profiles Aziza Chaouni and Her Project to Save a River and Dr.Elattuvalapil Sreedharan,India's Project Management Rock Star.What evidence is offered of project leadership skills in these vignettes?

Among the essential abilities for effective project managers identified by a survey of 58 firms on their project management practices and skills was:

Project leader duties include present-oriented and future-oriented tasks,but do not include past-oriented tasks.

Which personality trait is a poor match for project work?

What is considered corrupt in one country:

What are any three types of project champions and how are they different?

A more apt title for a project manager is:

What are any four key differences between managers and leaders?

Which of these behaviors is task-oriented?