Week 5 : Tutorial COM3053

1. Explain the difference between task-oriented and relations-oriented leadership styles.
2. In what ways is participative management useful for motivating and gaining commitment?
3. What is the purpose of team building? Where is team building needed?
4. Describe some situations that you know of where team building could be used.
5. What do you think are the reasons why team building is not used more often? What barriers are there to applying team building?
6. What are the sources of conflict between parties in the project organization?
7. Describe some ways of dealing with conflict.
8. What is “ social support? ” What are the sources of social support? How does social
support reduce job stress?
9. What are some ways of improving social support among project team members?
10. Explain how the project manager uses confrontation to resolve conflict.