Styles of Leadership and Its Impact upon the Projects Success

Abstract

The current study explores the role of leadership especially their styles among the project managers regarding the success of projects. The objective was to develop a theoretical framework from the literature in hand and then test the same in the contemporary environment. The literature survey was undertaken to state and elaborate the scope of the research topic. The present study was aimed at exploring and elaborating the styles of leadership and the demographics of the project managers in order to critically analyze the impact of the variables (Transformational, Transactional and Laissez-Faire leadership) on the project success. There were the personal attributes of the managers incorporated in this study such as gender, age, education. It was concluded that there is a prominent impact of leadership styles on the project success.

Keywords: Styles of Leadership (Transformational, Transactional and Laissez-Faire leadership), Success of the project, Demographics.