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MAN6304

Project Leadership

Semester 1, 2020

MAN6304 Project Leadership |

MAN6304 PROJECT LEADERSHIP

Discipline: Commerce

Prepared by: Unit Coordinator Alistair Campbell, Version 1.2

Key unit contacts

UNIT COORDINATOR & LECTURER

Name Room Email Consultation Time

Dr Alistair Campbell

(Joondalup campus)

JO 2.332 [email protected] Please make an appointment

by email.

LECTURERS/INSTRUCTORS

Name Email Consultation Time

Dr Chad Cartabel

(Melbourne campus)

[email protected] By arrangement only.

Please make an appointment by

email.

Dr Kishore Kumar Sundaresan

(Sydney campus)

[email protected] By arrangement only.

Please make an appointment by

email.

Classes for on campus delivery

LECTURE/SEMINAR

Day Time Room No.

On-Campus JO Students – Thursday

evening 5.30pm JO 8.211

Off-Campus Students Please follow weekly modules on Blackboard

Mel/Syd campuses Please refer to information for your campus

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Business and Law acknowledges the Noongar people who are the traditional custodians of

the lands and waters on which our metropolitan campuses now stand. We acknowledge the Gadigal of the

Eora Nation as the traditional custodians of the lands and waters on which ECU Sydney campus now

stands. We acknowledge the Kulin Nation who are the traditional custodians of the lands and waters on

which ECU Melbourne stands. We offer our respects to Elders past and present.


Introduction to the Unit

Project management and project leadership are two sides of the same coin. They are interlinked and need to

be if the project is to be delivered on time, to budget and of the desired quality. Many project managers pay

too much attention to managing and spend too little time leading. As with everything in life, finding the right

balance is key. The right balance between managing and leading comes with experience, and this can be a

challenging process due to a lack of awareness or desire to find the right balance. The reality is that both are

necessary, but alone each is not sufficient. Management and leadership are roles with specific activities.

Such roles are occupied by people who seek to be seen as project managers or project leaders respectively.

This attribution by others gives emphasis to followers, and the importance of how others perceive their

behaviours and identities. An effective project leader or project manager requires the individual to pay

attention to leading and managing. How the leading or managing is done shapes the attribution of how

effective the project manager is seen to be. Many aspects of managing and leading can be viewed as

processes, and these can be learnt. Everyone has the potential to become better at leading and managing,

and to do this requires students to think and learn about becoming better and applying such learning to test

and develop these processes. The difference between managing and leading can be considered as follows.

Within managing is the process of ‘sense making’; understanding the situation and appreciating the

necessity of organising resources to achieve objectives. Within leading is the process of ‘sense giving’;

helping people to understand objectives, inspiring them to achieve a higher performance through

commitment to a vision, and guiding them along a journey to overcome obstacles. Without one, the other will

not get the desired results, and this unit is structured with this balance clearly in mind. Ultimately, it will guide

students toward becoming better at both project management and project leadership.

Unit Learning Outcomes

At the end of this unit you will be able to:

1. Critique major modern theories of leadership, describing their advantages, limitations and personal

relevance.

2. Appraise their present leadership skills and future learning needs.

3. Formulate a strategy for developing effective interpersonal skills for project leadership.

4. Summarise their approach to developing effective teamwork and collaboration in managing projects.

5. Formulate a strategy for future learning of leadership skills.

Course Learning Outcomes Your learning in this unit will contribute to the development (or demonstrate your attainment) of the following

Course Learning Outcomes:

Justify decisions and judgements that address a complex project management issue considering the ethical

and social consequences [AQF S1, S4, A2].

5.1. Examine and assess the intended and unintended impacts on diverse stakeholders

5.2. Provide professional opinions or interpretations of project management matters applying ethical

principles, codes of conduct and values

Communication Skills Communication skills are not only crucial for success at University, employers also want graduates who are

competent and confident communicators, with strong English language proficiency.


For assistance with improving your English language skills, you can attend one of the Academic Skills

workshops or email [email protected]. Please visit Blackboard > Communities > Academic Skills

Centre for workshop registration and other information about developing your language and study skills.

For on-campus students, this Unit uses technology enhanced learning (TEL) to enhance the teaching and

learning experiences for students and tutors by enabling them to engage in ways that would not normally be

available or effective in a more traditional classroom / lecture environment. TEL achieves better student

experiences and outcomes and uses more effective teaching practices. It involves a mix of delivery modes,

teaching approaches and learning styles.

This mirrors the complex way in which projects are managed, better reflects the working environment, and

improves the way that students are prepared for the workplace by developing communication and

engagement skills in addition to academic thought, critical thinking and rational enquiry.

Students studying in off-campus mode will follow a similar approach except that Blackboard is used as the

meeting ‘hub’ and so regular on line access is required. Off campus students need to be actively engaged in

the unit by listening to the recorded lectures, reading the required readings and other unit related material

and participating in postings on the Blackboard discussion board. Networking with other students; asking

questions to clarify understanding; responding to questions asked by other students; debating different

perspectives; and sharing articles or other information you discover throughout your studies, are all important

parts of learning. To enable you to ‘discuss’ the unit content with other students or to ask questions about the

assessments, etc., an electronic Discussion Board is available on the Blackboard site for this unit. It is your

responsibility to check the discussion board at least once a week. If you are not sure how to find, or how to

use the Discussion Board, ask (or email) your tutor or lecturer for help.

Active learning

Studying a university-level course requires you to take an active role in what you are learning. To get the

most out of your time at ECU, you should engage with and actively participate in your units, and take

responsibility for your own learning.

On-campus students

If you are enrolled as an on-campus student you will need to attend a weekly workshop. This might be on

campus or delivered by video/webinar. It is important that you attend these sessions every week, arrive/login


punctually and participate constructively and professionally. You will find it beneficial to complete the

associated reading prior to attending the sessions, to give you some understanding of the topic and

improve your confidence with sharing your ideas during the workshops.

Learning materials and resources will be available on the Blackboard site for this unit, to assist you with your

studies.

Plan 'rigid' study times in your weekly schedule and consider allocating separate times for reading,

learning activities, assignment research and discussion.

Online students

If you are enrolled as an online (off-campus) student you will find your learning materials on Blackboard. It is

important that you are proactive and self-motivated with your learning as an online student, making sure you

commit to your studies at regular times every week to ensure success. It is critical for your success in an

online unit to engage with other students via Blackboard > Discussion forums, asking and answering one

another’s questions, sharing different perspectives and engaging with the content.

To assist you with planning your time, please consider the following:

• Use the Study Schedule to guide your progress through the learning activities and assessment tasks

this semester;

• Check your ECU student email regularly;

• Stay in touch with your classmates regularly, via Blackboard > Discussion Board.

Plan ‘rigid’ study times in your weekly schedule and consider allocating separate times for reading,

learning activities, assignment research and discussion.

Textbooks & Journals

• Burke, R., & Barron, S. (2014). Project management leadership : Building creative teams (Second

edition). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.

• Project Management Institute. (2017). A guide to the project management body of knowledge

(PMBOK@ Guide) (6th ed.). Newton Square, PA: PMI

Significant references and journals

• International Journal of Project Management (Available via online via ECU Library)

• International Journal of Managing Projects in Business (Available online via ECU Library)

• Project Management Journal (Available online via www.pmi.org to registered members)

Important websites

• Australian Institute of Project Management via www.aipm.com.au

• Project Management Institute via www.pmi.org


Study Schedule

This schedule provides a guideline on the topics covered and activities required each week, including assessment dates during the semester.

Week Week Beginning Topic/s Readings Assessment

1 24 February Module 1 – Introduction to project

leadership.

• Ch. 1 to 2 Project management leadership :

Building creative teams

• Ch. 1 Project Management Institute. (2017). A

guide to the project management body of

knowledge (PMBOK@ Guide) (6th ed.). Newton

Square, PA: PMI

2 2 March Module 2 – Project ‘Bodies of

Knowledge’ (BoK’s) and project

organisation






Square, PA: PMI

3 9 March Module 3 – Leadership behaviours,

theories and styles in projects







Square, PA: PMI

4 16 March Module 4 – Influence and change in

projects



Online Quiz – Accessible

from 8am Mon 16 March

until 11.59pm Sun 22 Mar

Perth Time AWST+8

5 23 March Module 5 – Emotional intelligence,

leadership and management in

projects

• Ch. 9, 10 and 14 Project management

leadership : Building creative teams

6 30 March Module 6 – Leadership and project

stakeholders

• Ch. 11 Project management leadership :


7 6 April Module 7 – Project teams, groups

and their roles



13 April

20 April

MID SEMESTER BREAK

2 weeks

8 27 April Module 8 – Project team

development phases, team building




techniques, and

coaching/mentoring

9 4 May Module 9 – Negotiation, motivation

and delegation in projects



Group assignments due

by 11.59pm Sun 10 May

Perth Time AWST+8

10 11 May Module 10 – Communication, and

conflict resolution in projects



11 18 May Module 11 – Problem solving and

decision making in projects



12 25 May Module 12 – Optional assignment

consultations

Please contact your lecturer/instructor for details of the

assignment consultations

Individual assignments

(PLP) due by 11.59pm

Sunday 7th June

Perth Time AWST+8 13 1 June Unit closure No class this week. Consultations by appointment only.

14-16 8 June

15 June

22 June

Study period

Exam replacement period

Exam replacement assessments will be conducted

during this period – not applicable to this unit


Assessment Information

In order to pass this unit, you must achieve an overall mark of 50% or more from the assessment tasks

summarised below.

Assessment summary

Assessment Date (due) Marks/Weighting

Online Quiz Online Quiz – Accessible from:

8am Monday 16th March until

11.59pm Sunday 22nd March

(Perth Time AWST+8)

10%

Group Activity

11.59pm Sunday 10th May (Perth

Time AWST+8)

Submit via the links on Blackboard

40%

Individual Activity

Personal Learning Portfolio

11.59pm Sunday 7th June (Perth

Time AWST+8)

Submit via the link on Blackboard

50%

Assessment Task 1: Online Quiz

Online Quiz accounts for 10% of the assessment in this Unit.

Date/Week Conducted in Week 4

Time Accessible from 8am Monday 16th March until 11.59pm Sunday 22nd March (Perth

Time AWST+8)

Place via the link in Blackboard 'Assignments'

Format Online quiz – Open Book.

Knowledge of Project Leadership as covered in modules 1 to 4 inclusive.

Source material will be drawn from:

Project Management Institute. (2017) PMBOK 6th edition

Burke & Barron (2014) Project Management Leadership (2nd edition)

Unit Learning

Outcomes

Evaluate the major alternative methodologies used to manage programs and the

considerations involved in choosing which methodology to use.

Review inputs, tools and techniques and outputs related to the core program

activities including strategy, leadership, governance, stakeholders and risk

processes.

Course Learning

Outcomes

CLO2 Apply critical thinking and technical skills to solve authentic business problems

in project management [AQF S2, S3].

2.3. Solve complex problems (multiple choice questions dealing with Project

Leadership)


PREPARATION

Before starting this quiz, you should have thoroughly understood the unit material covered in Modules 1 to 4

inclusive. In week 4 you will be given time to prepare for the quiz.

QUIZ INSTRUCTIONS

For this quiz, you are required to access the quiz link on Blackboard. It is a 1-hour test. This means that the

absolute latest you can begin it is 10.59pm Sunday 22nd March Perth Time AWST (UTC +8) so that you can

finish it before the closing time.

You can only do it in one continuous sitting, so if you start it, you will need to remain at your computer until

you have finished it. The test has 20 multiple choice questions, and each question is worth 0.5 marks. If you

answer all the questions correctly, then you will achieve 10% of your total final marks for the Unit.

Because the quiz is done online, you must have a continuous and reliable internet connection. If your own

internet connection is poor, then you are encouraged to do this from a computer that has a good connection

- this may include your local library or at the university / institute workstations. Please note that it is your

responsibility to choose a location that has a good and reliable connection.

You can only take this quiz once, and if your work is interrupted by a poor connection, then you will not be

able to re-sit the quiz. It is an open-book quiz, so you are allowed to have any books or other material open

whilst taking the exam.

Since you only have 1 hour to do the quiz, and because it must be done in a single sitting, you cannot close

the quiz and return to it later. If you do not complete the quiz in 1 hour, then any work you have done will be

saved and automatically submitted, and will be graded based on that work.

RESOURCES

The questions are drawn from all the material in modules 1 to 4, and the associated principles drawn from

the text book (Burke & Barron 2014) and the PMI PMBOK Guide.

MARKING CRITERIA

Each correct answer is worth 0.5%

FEEDBACK

Feedback will be available via Blackboard>My Grades. The results should be available 3 days after the quiz

closes.


Assessment Task 2: Group Activity

This Group Activity accounts for 40% of the assessment in this Unit

Date/Week Week 9: Sunday 10th May (Perth Time AWST+8)

Time 11.59pm

Place Submit via Blackboard links under Assessments.

Format Written report with a maximum word count = 5000 (excluding title page, table of

contents, references and any appendices).

Marks 40% of the assessment for this unit.

Unit Learning

Outcomes

Critique major modern theories of leadership, their advantages & limitations.

Appraise your present leadership skills and future learning needs.

Awareness of developing effective interpersonal skills for project leadership.

Awareness of developing effective teamwork and collaboration in managing projects.

PREPARATION

Before starting this assignment, you should have thoroughly understood the unit material covered in all the

relevant modules.

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This is a group activity. For this assignment, you are required to complete the tasks set out in the assignment

instructions. This assignment has a word limit of 5000 words. Word limits do not include your references

(which must be APA 6th compliant). The detailed instructions on Blackboard provide clarity about the

assignment and are designed to help you complete the assignment as required.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

The written report is to be submitted on Blackboard by a designated team member on behalf of the group.

The report must be uploaded using the link for Assignment 1 – Written Group Assignment on Blackboard

under 'Assignments'.

You cannot email, post or hand copies to your lecturer. Extensions can only be granted before the deadline

and in line with ECU policy. Normal work commitments, family commitments and extracurricular activities are

not accepted as grounds for granting you an extension of time because you are expected to plan ahead for

your assessment due dates.

MARKING CRITERIA

Please see the marking rubric on Blackboard.

FEEDBACK

Feedback will be available via Blackboard>My Grades.


Assessment Task 3: Personal Learning Portfolio

Personal Learning Portfolio accounts for 50% of the assessment in this Unit.

Date/Week Sunday 7th June (Perth Time AWST+8)

Time 11.59pm

Place Submit via Blackboard ‘Assignments’ in the ‘Assignments’ section

Format Single Microsoft Word document in electronic format with ECU coversheet

Marks Personal Learning Portfolio accounts for 50% of the assessment in this Unit.

Unit Learning

Outcomes

Critique major modern theories of leadership, describing their advantages, limitations

and personal relevance.

Appraise their present leadership skills and future learning needs.

Formulate a strategy for developing effective interpersonal skills for project

leadership.

Summarise their approach to developing effective teamwork and collaboration in

managing projects.

Formulate a strategy for future learning of leadership skills.

Course Learning

Outcomes

CLO5 Justify decisions and judgements that address a complex project management

issue considering the ethical and social consequences [AQF S1, S4, A2].

5.1. Examine and assess the intended and unintended impacts on diverse

stakeholders

5.2. Provide professional opinions or interpretations of project management matters

applying ethical principles, codes of conduct and values.

PREPARATION

Before starting this assignment, you should have engaged with all the material in the unit, and extended your

knowledge by reading additional material from the Project Leadership discipline via reputable journals and

academic articles.

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This is an individual activity. For this assignment, you are required to complete the tasks set out in the

assignment instructions. This assignment has a word limit of 1000 words for each exercise. There are 5

exercises that you need to complete. Word limits do not include your references (which must be APA 6th

compliant). The detailed instructions on Blackboard provide clarity about the assignment and are designed to

help you complete the assignment as required.

RESOURCES

Please see the unit Blackboard site for a full list of resources.

MARKING CRITERIA

Please refer to the Blackboard site for the unit.

FEEDBACK


Feedback will be available via Blackboard>My Grades.

Occupational Health and Safety

Please consider the health and safety of yourself, and others you study with, in all the environments where

you study. Any group tasks need to be undertaken with the interests of all involved, ensuring the culture of

respect and safe working is similar to what would be undertaken in a workplace or community setting. ECU is proud to have led the move to smoke-free university campuses in WA and Australia. ECU’s smoke-

free policy was established in 2012 to promote the health of staff, students and visitors. Smoking is not

permitted on any ECU campus and this applies 24 hours a day seven days a week. In accordance with

the ECU Smoke-Free University Guidelines (#4.4) "Employees observing other employees, contractors,

visitors or students smoking on University grounds should advise them that they are smoking in a prohibited

area and request them to move off ECU property."

Feedback and Unit Development

We invite and welcome honest feedback at ECU, both for praise and criticism, and there are a number of

ways to proceed during a semester or teaching period. The teaching staff are your first and most important

point of contact for feedback about the unit (their details are on the first page of this document). If the unit

has a general discussion board, you can post your comments there as well. More formally, in week four of a

standard semester, the School has an online survey to gauge your opinions about the progress of the unit in

this early stage.

The University has a central email address to capture and action feedback of a more general nature. You

can email [email protected] or visit the Student Feedback page (accessed at:

http://intranet.ecu.edu.au/student/support/contact-us/student-feedback).

Unit and Teaching Evaluation Instrument (UTEI)

Towards the end of any given teaching period in a unit, enrolled students will be invited by email to complete

the ECU UTEI online survey. This survey will ask questions concerning your level of satisfaction with the

unit, your lecturer and your tutor. Your feedback is essential to help us to improve the quality of our units and

courses and as such, we appreciate your time to complete the survey carefully. Your participation and the

feedback you provide are anonymous and confidential.

Unit Development resulting from student feedback

We act on the feedback you provide. This semester we have made the following changes to the unit based

on the feedback from previous students:

• More practical case studies have been added to the weekly modules to help students apply the unit

material.

• The video lectures have been re-recorded to make them simpler and shorter.

• Panopto videos have been added to the unit to help improve the recorded lectures, and to make

student video submissions easier and more professional.

• The assignment has been streamlined and more academic material is used each week to help you

get into the habit of actively finding and reading academic papers. This will build your critical thinking

and academic reasoning skills.

• The unit textbook has been updated to one that previous students thought was more professional

and could be used in project management workplaces.

mailto:[email protected]

http://intranet.ecu.edu.au/student/support/contact-us/student-feedback


Additional Information

Pre-Marking Assignment Work

Your lecturer/assessor will not pre-mark any work that you have prepared. This would put other students at a

disadvantage and is inequitable. The assignment preparation sessions are in place for you to discuss your

approach with your lecturer, and you will be provided with appropriate guidance. Some of this guidance will

require you to further research issues, find templates, or mirror writing / presentational styles from

professional organisations.

For any help in composing your assignment work, please make use of the free assignment workshops

provided by the Learning Consultants. Off-campus students can contact them by email / phone rather than

coming on to campus. For more details, please visit the learning consultants site via the Blackboard link.

Please do not send your lecturer/assessor any completed work for checking. Instead, please summarise and

discuss your proposed work during a pre-arranged consultation session. This can be conducted on-site (or

via video for off-campus students). Appointments must be made at least 24-hours in advance.

Email protocol

All emails should be sent from your student email account or via Blackboard, otherwise anti-spam filters may

prevent it from being delivered to your lecturer/instructor.

When using email to communicate with you lecturer/instructor, you should always make sure that your

message contains the following:

1. A subject that contains the Unit code, and clearly describes the nature of your query or request. This

is because your lecturer/instructor receive many emails a day, and may also teach more than one

Unit, so if your email does not contain the Unit code, it is not possible to place your message in

context. If the subject does not indicate the nature of the message, it may well remain unanswered.

2. Change the default setting on your email program to include previous messages in replies, and

make sure that previous messages are included in an ongoing exchange. Your lecturer/instructor

deals with many students. Having a copy of the previous exchanges included in your message will

expedite a response. You should still make sure that the subject indicates what the email is about.

3. Address your lecturer/instructor appropriately by name.

4. State your question or request clearly and concisely.

5. Insert a signature at the end of your email that contains:

a. your name in full as it appears in SIMO;

b. your student number;

c. the campus at which you attend classes for the Unit in question (also indicate if you are an

off-campus student).

Your lecturer/instructor will inform you if there are additional requirements for communicating by email.

While lecturer/instructor cannot be available on line all day, in normal circumstance your lecturer/instructor

will reply within 2 working days.

Assignments

Extensions for submission dates

Any student who wishes to defer the submission of an assignment must apply to the tutor before the due

date for an extension of the time within which to submit the assignment. The application must be in writing

and must set out the grounds on which extension is sought. The grounds must align with those set out in

ECU’s assignment extension policy.

An assignment submitted after the fixed or extended time for submission shall incur a penalty to be

calculated as follows:


• Where the assignment is submitted not more than 7 calendar days late, the penalty shall, for each

calendar day that it is late, be 5% of the maximum assessment available for the assignment;

or

• Where the assignment is more than 7 calendar days late, a mark of zero shall be awarded.

Please review ECU’s policy regarding the grant of extensions, and in particular, the reasons when an

extension can be granted, and the circumstances in which it cannot be granted. You will find the policy on

the ECU website.

Times of the Day Used in this Unit Plan and on Blackboard All times given in this Unit Plan and on ECU’s Blackboard site are stated in Australian Western Standard

Time (AWST). Please see the table below. If you are in a different time zone to AWST, you will need to

translate your local time to AWST when you calculate when your assignments are due. You should also

make a note of when Daylight Saving Time (DST) is in your local area. Daylight saving is not observed in

Western Australia.

Time Zones in Australia

Time zone State or territory City

Australian Eastern Standard

Time (AEST)

AEST is equal to Coordinated

Universal Time plus 10 hours

(UTC +10)

Queensland, New South

Wales (except Broken Hill),

Victoria, Tasmania, Australian

Capital Territory

Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne,

Hobart, Canberra

Australian Central Standard

Time (ACST)

ACST is equal to Coordinated

Universal Time plus 9.5 hours

(UTC +9.5)

South Australia, Northern

Territory and the town of

Broken Hill in western New

South Wales

Adelaide, Darwin, Broken Hill

Australian Western Standard

Time (AWST)

AWST is equal to Coordinated

Universal Time plus 8 hours

(UTC +8)

Western Australia Perth

Daylight Saving

• Daylight Saving Time (DST) is the practice of advancing clocks one hour during the warmer months

of the year. In Australia, Daylight saving is observed in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia,

Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory.

• Daylight saving is not observed in Queensland, the Northern Territory or Western Australia.


• Daylight Saving Time begins at 2am on the first Sunday in October, when clocks are put forward one

hour. It ends at 2am (which is 3am Daylight Saving Time) on the first Sunday in April, when clocks

are put back one hour.

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