The influence of project managers' leadership in successful interior projects

Abstract

Planning, organizing, overseeing, and coordinated over the various tasks involved in the interior construction projects is performed by project managers, who represents owners / clients. The lack of coordination within among stakeholders involved can caused of implication towards completion of project on schedule. Is a project managers main responsibility to ensure all in order and intact among stakeholders, landlords, local authority, and owner / clients. The purpose of this study is to identify the leadership styles in project managers’ in successful interior projects and influence project managers’ leadership in successful interior projects. The quantitative research study has been used to analyse the descriptive statistics, regression, the multiple correlation between two variables, leaderships as independent variable and project success as dependent variable. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) (Form 5X-Short) by Bass and Avolio’s (2004), the Project Implementation Profile (PIP) by Slevin and Pinto (1992) and demographic questionnaire have been used to evaluate and identify the objective of the study. The result shown positive correlation of transformational towards project success and negative result passive avoidant. It can be concluded the influence of project managers towards successful in interior projects has related with type of leadership by project managers in lead of projects towards completion.