Analysis of relationship between leadership and management

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Write a paper that provides a definition of leadership and an analysis of the relationship between leadership and management as well as an evaluation of the key attributes of a project manager. Explain the differences between leadership and management and the impact of leadership on project management. Based on your analysis of these differences and this impact, as well as critique of your readings on leadership, identify the key attributes of a project manager. Justify your choices (500 words).

Resources:

• Meredith, J.R. & Mantel, S.J., Jr. (2012) Project management: a managerial approach. 8th ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

Chapter 3, ‘The project manager' (pp.101-144)

• Northouse, P.G. (2013) Leadership: theory and practice. 6th ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Chapter 1, ‘Introduction' (pp.1-18)

• Dess, G. G. &Picken, J. C. (2001) ‘Changing roles: Leadership in the 21st century', Organizational Dynamics, 28 (3), pp.18-34.

• Mendenhall, M. E., Reiche, B. S., Bird, A. &Osland, J. S. (2012) ‘Defining the "global" in global leadership', Journal of World Business, 47 (4), pp.493-503.

• Nienaber, H. (2010a) ‘Conceptualisation of management and leadership', Management Decision, 48(5), pp.661-675.

• Packendorff, J., Crevani, L. & Lindgren, M. (2014) ‘Project leadership in becoming: A process study of an organizational change project', Project Management Journal, 45 (3), pp.5-20.

• Maccoby, M. (2000) ‘Understanding the difference between management and leadership', Research Technology Management, 43 (1), pp.57-59.

• Nienaber, H. (2010a) ‘Conceptualisation of management and leadership', Management Decision, 48 (5), pp.661-675.

• Toor, S., Ofori, G., (2008) ‘Leadership versus management: How they are different, and why', Leadership & Management in Engineering, 8 (2), pp.61-71.

• Pitsis, T. S., Sankaran, S., Gudergan, S. & Clegg, S. R. (2014) ‘Governing projects under complexity: theory and practice in project management', International Journal of Project Management, 32 (8), pp.1285-1290.

• Weathersby, G. B. (1999) ‘Leadership vs. management', Management Review, 88 (3), p.5.

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