A study on the types of managerial behaviors, styles and practices that lead to project success

To expand on the understanding of effective leadership and management, this study provides new evidence on the relation between employee satisfaction, project success, and managerial characteristics for the optimization of both. During the twentieth century, many have tried to uncover what it really means to be a good leader and to determine if it is possible to identify or create such people. In the managerial context, researchers have looked at project success and employee satisfaction as potential measures of leadership effectiveness. This study evaluates a behavioral and a value-based leadership theory and provides evidence consistent with both. The findings do not point to a strong direct relation between employee satisfaction and project success. However, the results do offer two sets of unique leadership characteristics, one with a strong relation to employee satisfaction and one with a strong relation to project success.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Kuo, Valerie (Valerie Y.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• M. Diane Burton.

• Mechanical Engineering.

Statement dc:rights

• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36756

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/36756