Self-understanding of the Project Manager in Communicating with Project Teams
Self-understanding of the Project Manager in Communicating with Project Teams

Summary/Abstract: This paper seeks to investigate the communication role of the Project Manager when it comes to coordinating the project team. Our research aims at identifying to what extent the self-understanding of the project manager influences the communication styles he/she promotes in driving the project team from the “Forming” to the “Performing” stage of team development, as conceptualized by Bruce Tuckman. We expect to find a connection between the stages of team development and the Project Life Cycle. The findings show that PMs in Romania are generally aware of their role of key communicators in the project and consciously adapt their communication style to the needs of the team members and to specific situations. Although most of the PMs are self and social aware, they place different importance on emotions in the decision-making process. The research shows that PMs adopt different patterns of team development according to the type of organization they belong to, their experience, age, the organizational or project constraints. Results show that there are certain specific context-related features which act either as obstacles or as incentives for reaching team performance when implementing projects and which diminish PMs’ perceived contribution in driving the project team to the “Performing” stage.

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