Impact of Project Manager's Soft Leadership Skills on Project Success

Abstract

Purpose of this study is to identify and assess the impact of project managers’ communication, interpersonal, coordination, team building and delegation, problem finding, analyzing, solving skills on project success while concurrently assessing the impact of team work as moderating variable on association between project mangers’ soft leadership skills and project success. This study gathered views of 178 individual associated with organizations related to projects. Non-probability convenience sampling technique was used for drawing samples from population. Descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis was used to analyze the data. This study indicates that a statistically significant positive relationship exist between each of identified soft leadership skills and success of project and moderation impact of team work on soft leadership skills. The study amply highlights the importance of project mangers’ coordination skills and problem finding, analyzing and solving skills. It is hoped that results of this study will provide organizations and individual’s related to projects with key skills especially soft leadership skills to focus and successfully execute the projects. Keywords: Soft Leadership Skills, Project Success, Team Work.

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