Project Manager Leadership Role in Improving Project Performance

role in project success is not addressed in project management literature. The purpose of this article is to address this gray area. In this article our focus is to identify a set of people-related project performance factors, and to understand how these factors interact with one another. Using these inter-relationships, we develop a model to analyze the project manager’s role in improving project performance. We start with a review of literature to document the importance of project leadership as a background for the research, and then identify a list of peoplerelated project success factors. We then present the research methodology for collecting data to develop underlying relations among these factors. As a part of our analysis, we explore the structural linkages between these factors and provide a detailed discussion about these linkages. Further, we discuss how to use these linkages to establish management and leadership roles in improving project performance from research and practitioner’s perspectives. Finally, we present limitations of the research study and suggest opportunities in the future research efforts.