A Multi-Level Model of Leadership in Complex Project Management

Anne Pisarski, Neal Ashkanasy, Roxanne Zolin, Caroline Hatcher, Alicia Gilchrist, Artemis Chang

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    Abstract

    Management (or perceived mismanagement) of large-scale, complex projects poses special problems and often results in spectacular failures, cost overruns, time blowouts and stakeholder dissatisfaction. While traditional project management responds with increasingly administrative constraints, we argue that leaders of such projects also need to display adaptive and enabling behaviours to foster adaptive processes, such as opportunity recognition, which requires an interaction of cognitive and affective processes of individual, project, and team leader attributes and behaviours. At the core of this model we propose is an interaction of cognitive flexibility, affect and emotional intelligence. The result of this interaction is enhanced leader opportunity recognition that, in turn, facilitates multilevel outcomes.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAbusive Supervision and Subordinate's Outcomes. The Moderating role of Power Distance BEST DOCTORAL PAPER AWARD and INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT STREAM AWARD
    EditorsKevin Voges
    Place of PublicationWellington New Zealand
    PublisherAustralian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
    Number of pages22
    EditionPeer Reviewed
    ISBN (Print)9781877040870
    Publication statusPublished - 2011
    EventAnnual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM 2011) - Wellington New Zealand, New Zealand
    Duration: 1 Jan 2011 → …
    http://www.anzam.org/

    Conference

    ConferenceAnnual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM 2011)
    Country/TerritoryNew Zealand
    Period1/01/11 → …
    OtherDecember 7-9 2011
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