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PROJECT LEADERSHIP: A GLOBAL STUDY OF NEW TRENDS

  • George Ofori;Shamas-ur-Rehman Toor
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.41-50
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    • 2009
  • Project leadership lifts management to a new level where projects are seen as strategic weapons that help firms to develop competitiveness. For too long, the focus on projects has been on short-term, tool-oriented management. There is a need for fresh understanding of project leadership and appreciation of its importance. A state-of-the-art review of research on leadership in project management is presented. Results of an aspect of a global study on leadership in the construction industry are discussed. The need for project managers to be effectively developed as leaders is underscored.

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The Cultivation Scheme of Supervisor's Leadership for Preventing Accidents in Construction Projects (효과적인 건설재해예방을 위한 현장소장 육성방안)

  • Kim Tae-Hwan,;Hong Sung-Ho;Park Chan-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.480-485
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    • 2004
  • The main purpose of this study is to present the scheme to reinforce the leadership of field supervisors in order to effectively prevent construction accidents. To this end, first, the researcher reviewed the meanings, functions, types and characteristics o( the leadership of field supervisors in safety management activities on construction sites through the literature review. Second, he investigated the types of supervisors' leadership and the level of field safety management activities through qestionnaires. Third, he categorized the types of supervisors' leadership by that level. Fourth, lie suggested the leadership type of field supervisors to effectively prevent construction accidents, and then he developed the plans to reinforce their leadership.

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Structural Relations Between Safety Leadership, Safety Observance, Safety Education, and Safety Culture - K Company Case Study - (안전리더십, 안전준수, 안전교육, 안전문화 간의 구조적 관계 - K 사 사례연구 -)

  • Wee, Kuk Hoan;Bang, Won Seok;Kim, Sun Hwa;Chang, Seong Rok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.36-43
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    • 2021
  • Effective leadership in safety performance, such as safety leadership, has received attention as a factor that greatly affects safety performance in various high-risk industrial environments. Based on prior research, this study aims to analyze the impact relationship between safety leadership, safety observance, safety education, and safety culture to reveal the effectiveness of safety leadership. In addition, this study will examine the effects of safety leadership on safety observance and safety education to identify the effects of safety understanding. For this purpose, a survey was conducted with employees of an aviation manufacturing company in Gyeongnam. For verification, a positive factor analysis, correlation analysis, and structural equation analysis were conducted using the AMOS 21.0 program. This study's findings show that, first, safety leadership has a positive and significant impact on safety observance and safety education. Second, safety leadership was found to have a direct impact on organizations' safety culture. Third, although safety observance has significant positive effects on safety culture, safety education has often been rejected. Finally, after verifying the control effect of safety understanding, this study uncovered the presence of an adjustment effect in the effect of safety leadership on safety observance. Therefore, based on the results of this study, theoretical and practical implications suggest that through the exercise of safety leadership, managers can improve their organizations' safety culture by increasing organizations' compliance with safety observance and/or acceptance of safety education.

A Study on Leadership Research Trends: Focusing on Overseas Research Trends (리더십 연구 동향에 관한 연구: 해외 연구동향을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Jae-Boong
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.12
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    • pp.253-259
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    • 2020
  • This paper is to understanding the recent research trend of leadership. To this end, it is intended to grasp the research trend of leadership by using foreign academic databases such as SCOPUS and SPRINGER. As a result of the analysis, it was found that a lot of research has been conducted in management, human resource management, organization, etc., which have traditionally been studied. However, in addition to this field, research in the fields of Nursing, Engineering, Computer Science, and Education has been steadily increasing. This shows that the study of leadership is becoming important not only in companies and specific organizations, but also in various disciplines. In particular, as leadership is becoming more important than ever, it is expected that research on leadership will continue to be carried out with interest in many fields.

Creative Problem Solving Style, Self-leadership and Locus of Control in the Korean Engineering College Students (공대생들의 창의적 문제해결유형별 셀프리더십과 통제소재)

  • Ahn, Jeong-Ho;Lim, Jee-Young
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.122-129
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    • 2010
  • This study was conducted to compare the self-leadership strategies and locus of control between the problem-solving styles in the Korean engineering college students. Creative problem-solving styles were identified based on the three dimensions. The results of the two-way analysis of variances indicated the main effects of problem-solving styles; each problem-solving style had unique characteristics in relation to self-leadership strategies and locus of control. There were neither main effects of sex nor interaction effects of problem-solving styles and sex. It would be useful to provide the engineering students with the specialized self-leadership training program based on the problem-solving styles.

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Impacts of PM's Leadership Type on Project Performance in PPP Project (PPP 사업에서 프로젝트관리자(PM)의 리더십유형이 프로젝트성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Hwang, Jae-Seung;Boo, Jeman
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.41-49
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    • 2018
  • Recently, PPP (Public-Private-Partnership) Projects, which private companies invest in, plan, design, construct and operate, have become more popular around the world. The construction industry environment is becoming increasingly competitive. The PPP project is composed of various organizations, so it is very difficult to carry out the project successfully. In this environment, the construction companies are trying hard to secure a competitive advantage. In this study, we tried to identify the role of project manager's leadership and project citizenship behavior as a precedent for creating performance in PPP (Private-Public-Partnership) project. We examine the impact of PM's transformational leadership and transactional leadership on project citizen behavior and examine the impact of project citizen action on project management performance and completion performance. For this study, we conducted a questionnaire survey on PPP project participants. As a result, the following results were obtained. First, transformational leadership and transactional leadership had a significant influence on project citizenship behavior. Second, project citizen behavior had a significant impact on both project management performance and project completion performance. The idealized influence of transformational leadership and the Active management by exception of transactional leadership were found to be very important in shaping PPP team's project citizenship behavior. Therefore, this study has academic implications in studying the effects of PM leadership and project citizenship behavior on the performance of PPP project. And it is expected that it will help selection and training of PM to secure a competitive advantage for construction companies that implement PPP projects practically.

Evaluation of Project Manager's Leadership in Construction Projects (건설사업 현장소장의 리더십 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Gang, Ji-Sun;Kim, Han-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.151-159
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    • 2010
  • Leadership is a critical factor for success or failure of an organization. Project managers in construction projects are 'field CEO' so their leadership affects performance of the projects. The objectives of this study is to evaluate the leadership of project managers and to analyse its major characteristics. The LBDQ(Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire) technique was used to evaluate and identify types of leadership of project managers from 'heaven' and 'hell'. Relationships between leadership and performance of the projects were also discussed.

A Study on the Impact of Servant Leadership Affecting Creativity : The Mediating Effect of Empowerment (서번트 리더십이 창의성에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구 : 임파워먼트 매개효과)

  • Jang, Eun-Hye;Lee, Kwang-Hee;Jang, Eun-Young;Gwak, Hyeon-Geun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.104-114
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study is to verify not only the impact of servant leadership affecting creativity but the mediating effect of empowerment. Creativity refers to the production of novel and useful ideas by an individual or by a group of individuals working together [2]. A survey was conducted by 301 employees. This study used the structure equation model which treated the servant leadership as independent variable and creativity as criterion variables. Empowerment was supposed as mediating variable of these relationships. As a result of this study, servant leadership had positive influence on empowerment. Empowerment had positive influence on creativity. Also servant leadership had positive effect on creativity at first, but it did not have a direct effect on creativity when empowerment was considered. These mean that empowerment is complete mediation variable because servant leadership no longer affects creativity after empowerment has been considered. Several implications, limitations and directions for future research were discussed.

Moderating Effects of Situational Factors on the Relationship between Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

  • Kwan-Young Ahn;Young-Hwan Kwak;Byung-Jig Lee
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.24 no.68
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    • pp.37-50
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    • 2001
  • Although the study of OCB has increased greatly in recent years, a little works have focused on the relationship between leadership and extrarole behavior, and the moderating effects of the situational factors on the relationship between two factors. For the analytical purpose of this article, Fisher's Z-transformation and SGC(split groups correlations) methods were introduced. Generally 2 leadership styles are found to have influenced on altruism and conscientiousness respectively. Out of 36 cases, only 2 cases were significant in moderating effects. Based on empirical results, there is no moderating effects in conscientiousness. But altruism is found to be more closely related with employee-centered leadership in low centralized group than in high centralized group, and more closely related with job-centered leadership in low growth-needs group than in high growth-needs group.

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Influence of Leadership Styles on Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction (지휘관의 리더십 특성이 조직몰입과 직무만족에 미치는 영향 - 경기도 소방공무원을 중심으로 -)

  • Son, HyoJong;Lee, YoungMi
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.129-138
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    • 2015
  • This study investigates the influence of transformational and transactional leadership styles of commanders in fire service organizations on organizational commitment and job satisfaction. A survey was conducted with the staffs of four fire stations in Gyeonggi Province. The results show that the charismatic characteristics of transformational leadership and the management by exception of transactional leadership positively influence both organizational commitment and job satisfaction. This indicates that the fire officers can be devoted to their organizations and be satisfied with their jobs when their supervisors give directions with charisma and vision and when they delegate authority to the fire officers except in particular situations.