Leadership Qualities and Styles for Successful Project Management in Nigeria

Nigerians have been employing works of numerous project managers with different leadership styles that have led to either the success or failure of projects. The purpose of this study is to examine various leadership styles shown by the numerous project managers using a number of variables as a deciding factor to the success or failure of the project. For this study, a number of questionnaires were used to analyse the leadership styles of a selected number of people with regards to numerous factors. The end results displayed that the most important factors were ‘personal character’ ‘leadership style’ and ‘communication skills’. Keywords: leadership style, communication, project management DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-16-01 Publication date:June 30th 201