Situational Impact on Leadership Styles with Emerging Construction Managers

9 pages•Published: May 15, 2022

Abstract

Leadership in the construction industry can determine the success of a project. However, many emerging construction managers do not understand the different styles of leadership. Three common leadership styles are Autocratic, Democratic, and Laissez-faire. Adapting leadership styles to the situation will have an immediate impact on the success of the leader. The objective of this study was to examine the impact that the situation has on leadership styles with early-career construction managers. Forty-five early career construction managers participated with the study and examined their preferred leadership styles in two different situations. The survey examined the differences in their responses with the two situations. The preferred leadership style that the participants selected was democratic, however in the second situation that presented more stress the participants were more likely to demonstrate Autocratic leadership.

Keyphrases: autocratic, democratic, laissez faire, leadership, leadership training

In: Tom Leathem, Wes Collins and Anthony Perrenoud (editors). ASC2022. 58th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference, vol 3, pages 263-271.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/wqXj
	https://doi.org/10.29007/c2hd

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{ASC2022:Situational_Impact_Leadership_Styles,
  author    = {Anthony Perrenoud and Meagan Patterson},
  title     = {Situational Impact on Leadership Styles with Emerging Construction Managers},
  booktitle = {ASC2022. 58th Annual Associated Schools of Construction International Conference},
  editor    = {Tom Leathem and Wes Collins and Anthony Perrenoud},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Built Environment},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2632-881X},
  url       = {/publications/paper/wqXj},
  doi       = {10.29007/c2hd},
  pages     = {263-271},
  year      = {2022}}

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