This document discusses a study on the impact of leadership styles on project success in Ethiopia. The study aims to determine if there is a particular leadership style that promotes project success. It will assess how transformational, transactional, and laissez faire leadership styles affect project success. The target population includes coordinators, volunteers, instructors, teachers, and beneficiaries involved in Brighter Generation program projects in Addis Ababa. Data will be collected through questionnaires using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire administered to the target population, as well as from program reports and documents. The research design is correlational, with leadership style as the independent variable and project success as the dependent variable.
This document discusses a study on the impact of leadership styles on project success in Ethiopia. The study aims to determine if there is a particular leadership style that promotes project success. It will assess how transformational, transactional, and laissez faire leadership styles affect project success. The target population includes coordinators, volunteers, instructors, teachers, and beneficiaries involved in Brighter Generation program projects in Addis Ababa. Data will be collected through questionnaires using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire administered to the target population, as well as from program reports and documents. The research design is correlational, with leadership style as the independent variable and project success as the dependent variable.
This document discusses a study on the impact of leadership styles on project success in Ethiopia. The study aims to determine if there is a particular leadership style that promotes project success. It will assess how transformational, transactional, and laissez faire leadership styles affect project success. The target population includes coordinators, volunteers, instructors, teachers, and beneficiaries involved in Brighter Generation program projects in Addis Ababa. Data will be collected through questionnaires using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire administered to the target population, as well as from program reports and documents. The research design is correlational, with leadership style as the independent variable and project success as the dependent variable.
This document discusses a study on the impact of leadership styles on project success in Ethiopia. The study aims to determine if there is a particular leadership style that promotes project success. It will assess how transformational, transactional, and laissez faire leadership styles affect project success. The target population includes coordinators, volunteers, instructors, teachers, and beneficiaries involved in Brighter Generation program projects in Addis Ababa. Data will be collected through questionnaires using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire administered to the target population, as well as from program reports and documents. The research design is correlational, with leadership style as the independent variable and project success as the dependent variable.
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Title: The impact of Leadership Styles on project success in the case of Brighter
Generation program projects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1. Introduction
1.1 Background of the study
While having all the resources needed to complete a project is essential, the effort is useless without effective leadership and management of those resources. Creating a vision and a direction, influencing people, and fostering success are all parts of leadership. It involves forging and maintaining a strong link between leaders and followers who desire advancement of outcomes that represent their shared objectives. Doing a successful project is very difficult to impossible without these components and motivation behind. Even while many understand and appreciate the importance of leadership in projects, they often struggle to identify the precise style of leadership that best suits their project’s plans and strategy. There have been many studies completed in recent years that concentrate on the crucial success aspects of projects and the leadership attributes & qualities of project managers; however, there are relatively few studies that explain how these two concepts relate to one another in the context of projects conducted in Ethiopia. This study aims to bridge that gap while highlighting whether there is a specific, prevalent leadership style that encourages project success.
Leadership is the process of directing the skills of the entire team toward the shared target, communicating the vision, goals, and objectives, and completing the work with no misunderstandings and high-quality end result through others. Effective team leadership is essential for outstanding team performance and productivity, which in turn improves job quality and raises the likelihood of attaining favorable results. Understanding the leadership style enables project managers to give the project team proper direction and feedback while also better understanding their own thinking, decision-making processes, and potential company decision- making tactics. This research attempts to examine if there is a prevalent leadership style that project managers implement to complete projects successfully. The research aims to evaluate the implementation of the three contemporary leadership styles (Transformational, Transactional and Lassie-Faire leadership styles) by measuring the elements of each leadership style through the structured Multi factor leadership questioner that will be administered for the project team and other stakeholders that are participating directly in the program. The effective completion of a project is typically seen as the timely, within-budget, and in compliance with predefined performance specifications. This three element criteria are common to evaluate the performance of the project however many scholars argue the wholeness of the these three criteria to measure project success, so this research employ Shenhar et al. (1997) multidimensional universal framework four dimension of success to measure projects success which include the following four dimensions: project efficiency, impact on the customer, direct and business success, and preparing for the future.
2. Research Objective
2.1 General Objective
The overall objective of this research is to determine if there is a particular, widely used leadership style that promotes project success.
2.2 Specific Objectives
To assess how transformational leadership affects project success
To assess how transactional leadership affects project success To assess how laissez fair leadership affects project success To recommend for future projects if the result finding indicates a prevalent leadership style
3. RESEARCH METHEDOLOGY
3.1 Research Design and Approach
Since this form of research will involve analyzing how closely two variables are related to one another, correlational research will be the research design used. The project's success is the dependent variable, and the leadership style is the independent variable. Quantitative research approach will be used to collect and analyze data from the MLQ (Multi factor leadership questioner) that will be administered to the respondents within the target population. 3.2 Target Population and Sample Size
The target population for this research comprises of the coordinators, volunteers, diaspora instructors, local teachers and the beneficiaries of the project including the project teams and technical teams with various levels of experience within the program.
3.3 Data Source and Collection Methods
The researcher will use both primary and secondary data sources. The primary data will be collected from target population through questionnaire administered to the selected respondents. The secondary sources of data will be obtained from program reports, project status review report, project office strategic documents, and records of minutes, procedure manuals and contractual agreements.
