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Intercultural team maturity model: Unity, diversity, capability (2006)
Journal Article
Prabhakar, G. P., & Walker, S. (2006). Intercultural team maturity model: Unity, diversity, capability

“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”, Mahatma Gandhi. When project team members of diverse cultures act and react together... Read More about Intercultural team maturity model: Unity, diversity, capability.

Switch leadership in projects: An empirical study reflecting the importance of transformational leadership on project success across twenty-eight nations (2005)
Journal Article
Prabhakar, G. P. (2005). Switch leadership in projects: An empirical study reflecting the importance of transformational leadership on project success across twenty-eight nations. Project Management Journal, 36(4), 53-60

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Mahatma Gandhi This paper documents an empirical analysis of leadership in project management practices on 153 projects across 28 nations. This is a two-phase research st... Read More about Switch leadership in projects: An empirical study reflecting the importance of transformational leadership on project success across twenty-eight nations.

Intercultural team maturity model: Unity, diversity, capability. Achieving optimal performance when leading a multicultural project team (2005)
Presentation / Conference
a multicultural project team. Paper presented at 19th IPMA World Congress Vision to Reality - The Project Management Way, New Delhi, India

Our research helps to judge ‘maturity’ as an asset to projects and heightens awareness of situational leadership, using intercultural team maturity levels as a tool for optimal project leadership success. This study focuses on exactly how to analy... Read More about Intercultural team maturity model: Unity, diversity, capability. Achieving optimal performance when leading a multicultural project team.

Switch leadership in projects: An empirical study reflecting the importance of transformational leadership on project success across twenty-eight nations (2005)
Presentation / Conference
Prabhakar, G. P. (2005, September). Switch leadership in projects: An empirical study reflecting the importance of transformational leadership on project success across twenty-eight nations. Paper presented at PMI Global Congress, Toronto, Canada

This paper documents an empirical analysis of leadership in project management practices on 153 projects across 28 nations. This is a two-phase research study for which 46 projects were studied in phase 1 representing 14 nations and 107 projects were... Read More about Switch leadership in projects: An empirical study reflecting the importance of transformational leadership on project success across twenty-eight nations.

A switch will induce a better pitch (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Prabhakar, G. P. (2004, November). A switch will induce a better pitch. Paper presented at pm days' 04, Vienna, Austria

The research in the field of project management has already highlighted leadership styles with respect to group and task needs in the project and individual performance levels. This paper is based on the assumptions that leadership challenges are far... Read More about A switch will induce a better pitch.

The impact of switch leadership on project success (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Prabhakar, G. P. (2004, August). The impact of switch leadership on project success. Paper presented at Finnish Doctoral Program In Industrial Engineering And Management, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

The research in the field of project management has already highlighted leadership styles with respect to group and task needs in the project, individual performance levels, this paper is based on the assumptions that leadership challenges are far mo... Read More about The impact of switch leadership on project success.

A switch in time saves nine (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Prabhakar, G. P., & Walker, S. (2004, August). A switch in time saves nine. Presented at Project/Program Governance, a key to Project/Program Performance?, Lille, France

Switch Leadership® is the conscious ability to manoeuvre from one leadership approach to another to enhance performance on a project. We focus on how a project manager makes the decision to apply existing leadership styles by studying practices in th... Read More about A switch in time saves nine.

A switch in time saves nine (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Prabhakar, G. P., & Walker, S. (2004, July). A switch in time saves nine. Paper presented at PMI Research Conference 2004, London, UK

This paper suggests that adaptive changes in the situational leadership style adopted by the project manager toward his team during different sub-phases within the implementation phase in a project life cycle could enhance overall project performance... Read More about A switch in time saves nine.