The Tasks of Project Leadership

Kloppenborg, Timothy J.; Shriberg, Arthur; Venkatraman, Jayashree

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“…) and states that project management requires "the application of skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements" (PMI, 2000, p. 6). The temporary nature of projects requires managers to use different skills and tackle different types of challenges and issues than they encounter (and have been trained to use) in ongoing management activities (Kloppenborg, Shriberg, & Venkatraman, 2003). This shift to project-based work in organizations and the need for project management skills and knowledge has resulted in numerous project management courses in business schools.…”

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Project Management in Local Nonprofit Organizations: Engaging Students in Problem-Based Learning

Kloppenborg¹,

Baucus²

2004

Journal of Management Education

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This article describes problem-based learning (PBL) at the subsystem level, namely, the application of PBL in a project management course that empowers student teams to solve problems in nonprofit organizations. Faculty members teaching in project-based disciplines can employ the authors' approach to introduce PBL and document its effectiveness, possibly using this to move their university toward system-wide PBL. Faculty members teaching in other disciplines can adapt portions of the authors'approach to their courses. This article explains the course objectives, the project selection, the deliverables, and how students direct their own learning. The authors describe their assessment process in which expert judges evaluate completed projects and award a prize to the best team project.

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2004

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“…Two key project leadership roles most often are the PM and the project sponsor. The sponsor is often an executive or an individual from top management levels who champions the project, represents external customers and the senior leadership of the company, and mentors the PM (Kloppenborg et al , 2004). Although a substantial body of literature exists describing the role of the PM, the literature on the role of the ES has been limited (Helm and Remington, 2005).…”

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Project manager vs. executive perceptions of sponsor behaviors

Kloppenborg

Stubblebine²,

Tesch³

2007

Management Research News

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PurposeTo identify differences in perceptions between executive sponsors (ESs) and project managers (PM) regarding sponsor involvement on projects, for the purposes of contributing to project management practice and encouraging further sponsor‐related research.Design/methodology/approachA survey of 365 executives and managers interested in project management investigated differences between ESs and PMs in perceived importance on eight dimensions of ES behavior and three dimensions of project success during the initiation stage of a project. This study followed a previous exploratory analysis study that identified sponsor behaviors. Factor analysis and t‐tests were used to develop variables and test for differences, respectively.FindingsResults indicated significant differences between ESs and PMs on the perceived importance of ES involvement on the critical dimension of mentoring and assisting PMs with executives indicating higher importance.Research limitations/implicationsThree specific suggestions are made which are directed toward improving project management practice. Further, additional research is encouraged on the role and influence of the ES in the initiating stage of the project management process.Originality valueThe value of this research is two‐fold. One, the investigation identified a critical project management dimension on which sponsors and PMs differ, which may account for disruptive conflict during a project. Two, the present study adds to the limited body of research on the role of project sponsors.

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The Tasks of Project Leadership

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Project Management in Local Nonprofit Organizations: Engaging Students in Problem-Based Learning

Project Management in Local Nonprofit Organizations: Engaging Students in Problem-Based Learning

Project manager vs. executive perceptions of sponsor behaviors

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