Expected Leadership Qualities for a Project Manager to Manage Construction Projects

The construction industry is multidimensional by nature of structure, operating within many boundaries and collaborating closely with many Stakeholders, including field engineers , Architects, designers, contractors, owners, and Government agencies. Project and organization success depends on project manager and employees with well-developedskills people orientation and leadership qualitieswho will be workingat different hierarchy levels to meet varying leadership qualities and performance demanded.

As we know the construction industry was one among the largest industries in the world and holding 18% of GDP. Particularly in India every five year plan focus more on the infrastructure development in India. It is found that there is a wide scope for construction in the world. The project leader plays a crucial role in monitoring the quantity and quality output of the employees. The main objective of writing this article is to describe the best leadership qualities required for a project leader to lead the team successfully to reach the targets.

Leadership styles can be represented with differing combinations of four main decision-making styles: 1) Autocratic2) Democratic 3) Participatory and 4) Free-rein. This study hypothesizes varying managerial positions that require in different combinations of leadership styles to achieve high levels of performance and success. This concept based study was made on executives and managers in URC Construction (P) Ltd., Erode with identification of their preferred leadership style for construction managerial positions. Based on the interaction among the various project managers the study highlighted the various style of leadership followed in the organization. The main objective of this article is to suggest mix of various leadership qualities that can be followed to extract the best productivity among the engineers, workforce and other workers of the project.