Managing Project Teams

Project Teams: A Structured Development Approach is a seven-chapter book published by Business Expert Press in 2016 and written by Vittal S. Anantatmula, professor at the College of Business at Western Carolina University. The author provides a model of successful teams, examining a key aspect of the model in each chapter. She explores how the development, process, and management of teams works. She compares traditional teams with virtual global teams. She considers the attributes of productive team members and suggests traits of high-performance teams. Each chapter begins with objectives and a preview of concepts covered. Each chapter contains discussion questions. In Chapter 4, Managing Project Teams (31 pages), the author reviews concepts in team leadership. She considers the power culture and team decision-making. She describes the task, socioemotional, and destructive roles of team members and how each affects delegation. She reviews influences on decision-making and proposes a six-step process from gathering information to monitoring results. She examines team conflict and ways to resolve it. She also reviews negotiations. She discusses the drivers of team motivation and links team behavior to stages of team development. She reviews the relationship between project success and the team manager's skill sets and attitudes. The chapter ends by comparing leadership and management.