project team
It is a group of people who perform project work to achieve project goals. It is composed of people who assume different roles and responsibilities in order to complete the project.
Project team members may have different skills, may be employed full-time or part-time, and may increase or decrease as the project progresses. Even though project team members are assigned specific roles and responsibilities, it is beneficial to involve them all in project planning and decision-making.
Project Management Team
Is a project team member who is directly involved in project management activities and is responsible for project management and leadership activities, such as initiation, planning, execution, supervision, control and closure of various project phases. The project management team is also known as the core team or leadership team. For smaller projects, project management responsibilities may be shared among the entire project team or undertaken solely by the project manager.
project manager
An individual appointed by the executing organization to lead the project team to achieve project goals. He is both the leader and manager of the project team.
| leader |
manager |
| The work mainly involves three aspects. ① Determine direction; ② Unify thoughts; ③ Motivate and inspire. |
Organizations confer positions and authority to be responsible for the management of something or the achievement of a certain goal. |
| Leaders set goals |
Managers lead people to achieve goals |
| Respect and trust are key elements of effective leadership |
The primary concern is to consistently create the outcomes desired by stakeholders . |
| Project managers have the dual identities of leader and manager. For project managers, both management and leadership skills are indispensable. For large and complex projects, leadership skills are particularly important. |
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5 powers of project managers
(1) Position power: comes from the manager’s position and authority in the organization.
(2) Punishment power: The ability to use negative means such as demotion, salary deduction, punishment, criticism, and threats.
(3) Reward power: the ability to give rewards to subordinates
(4) Expert power: derived from personal professional skills.
(5) Reference power: The power you have by becoming a reference example for others to learn from.
Power type reference information
Social psychologists John French and Bertram Raven proposed a model of five categories of power in a paper they published in 1959.
The first type: coercive power
It is based on fear. A person responds to coercive power out of fear of the negative consequences that may arise if he or she disobeys. This power depends on the use or threat of physical punishment, mental shock or even outright coercive deprivation of some other form of benefit. Among all the powers available to people, the power to harm others is perhaps the most commonly used, the most reprehensible and the most difficult to control. This is determined by the asymmetry of power relations.
Second type: Rewarding power
It is the formal opposite of coercive power. People obey a person's wishes or instructions because such obedience will benefit them. Therefore, the person who can bring people the rewards they expect has power. These rewards can be anything the person considers valuable.
The third type: statutory power
In a formal group or organization, probably the most common way to obtain one or more bases of power is through one's position in the organizational structure. The power thus obtained is statutory power. It represents the power a person acquires through his or her position in the formal hierarchy of an organization. The authority of a position includes both coercive and reward powers, and is much broader. It is particularly worth mentioning that this power includes the acceptance and recognition of position authority by organizational members. When school principals, bank presidents, and military officers spoke, teachers, cashiers, and soldiers listened.
The fourth type: expert power
This power is based on expertise, skills and knowledge. As the development of the world increasingly depends on the development of technology, specialized knowledge and skills have become one of the main sources of power. The finer the division of labor and the stronger the specialization, the more dependent it is on experts to achieve goals.
The fifth type: referential power
Referential power arises from admiration for others and a desire to be like that. If someone admires and identifies with you, then you have power over them because they want to please you.