Human Side of Project Leadership

CHAPTER 9

Expression Components of Spirit

Collective Attitudes

We define attitudes as an internal state that influences an individual’s choices or decisions to act in a certain way under particular circumstances (Cannon-Bower et al. 1995). We focus on attitudes that have been shown to have a direct bearing on the team’s interaction process and the ability of a person to flourish in a team. Of major importance in the dynamic and temporary context of project teams is the level of satisfaction, commitment, and morale achieved by those teams.

Project team satisfaction is the extent to which project team members are satisfied with their project team members, with the way the project team members work together, and with working in the project team. ...