Team Dynamics and Leadership skills in Porvoo campus

Case study: POBBA and TOBBA students

Phung Banh

Irina Kuzennaya

Laila Payo

Svetlana Shirokova

Ksenia Tikhmonovich

POBBA 10

Spring 2012

Author or authors Irina Kuzennaya, Ksenia Tikhmonovich, Laila Payo, Phung Banh, and Svetlana Shirokova	Group or year of entry POBBA 10
Title of report Team Dynamics and Leadership skills at Porvoo Campus	Number of pages and appendices 21+3
Teacher/s or supervisor/s Evariste Habiyakare, Johanna Heinonen, Tove Thomasson
This report which is a vital part of the research plan can be seen as a general introduction of the leadership project. The aim is to identify the project goals and objectives and describe the project process. A tool kit of leadership development will be ebstablished at the end of the project.
Keywords Leadership, team dynamic, porvoo campus, tobba, pobba, haaga-helia

Contents

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Structure of the research 2

1.2 Project team 3

2 Background 4

2.1 Definition and concept of leadership 4

2.2 The element of leadership 6

2.2.1 Ability to setting the goal 6

2.2.2 Communication 6

2.2.3 Making decision and responsible 6

2.2.4 Listening skills 7

2.2.5 Contribution 7

2.2.6 Trust 7

3 Research problem and objectives of the research 8

1.1 Research problem 8

1.2 Objectives of the research 9

4 Population and sampling 9

4.1 Sampling Methods 10

4.1.1 Probability sampling methods 10

4.1.2 Non-probability sampling methods 11

4.2 Population and Sampling of our research 12

5 Data gathering and research methods 14

5.1 Methodology 16

5.1.1 Surveys (printouts) 16

5.1.2 Web-based surveys 16

5.1.3 Individual interview 16

5.1.4 Pilot study 17

5.2 Ethics in Research 18

6 Questionnaire and questions 18

6.1 Questionnaire 19

6.1.1 Graphic Language 19

6.1.2 Visual Perception 19

6.1.3 Motivation 20

6.2 Principles for design self-administered questionnaires 20

6.2.1 Designing navigation guides 20

7 Budget and time line 22

7.1 Budget 22

7.2 Cost of the work 22

7.3 Timetable 23

8 Risks 24

Bibliography 25

Attachments 30

1. Introduction

Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. (Ward 2012.) It is very important to understand the leadership skills and roles, so it can apply in the project management for more effectively process and result. Leader is a significant role to lead people or motivate them to work with their full capacity and it also provides an inspirational figure to lead groups towards great accomplishments.

With the research topic ‘Team Dynamics and Leadership skills at Porvoo Campus’, this research plan will be aiming to point out the leadership skills that most require in Porvoo campus and what would be the key factor to have a good team dynamic. We will be focusing on business (POBBA) and tourism (TOBBA) students of HAAGA-HELIA University of applied sciences. The research will be based on leadership theory, group management theory, and team dynamic. The quantitative and qualitative survey will be used as the tools and method for this project. The researcher will start with project plan to understand the theory and plan the action steps. Then we will continue with action to gathering the data and collect all the informative knowledge from our case study and at the end we will outline the result and the suggestion of the tool kits for future action.

For this research, we are a group of 5 peoples: Irina Kuzennaya, Ksenia Tikhmonovich, Laila Payo, Phung Banh, and Svetlana Shirokova. We had the knowledge and had participated in many projects. We hope that this project will help us have deeper understanding in leadership and team management. We also aim to be able to outline the tool kits for team work in any project.

1. Structure of the research

The market research is the process of gathering, analysing and interpreting information about a market, a product or service to offer the strategy on a curtain task. The research is focus into the characteristics, spending habits, location and needs of target group to have a clear understanding of the market or target in general. (Marketresearch 2012.)

The market research will help the researcher provides relevant data to allow us solve the challenge of the market and have knowledge on a task. For example, the market research will point out the market segment or identify the need of the target group where all of this information will help the researcher in terms of develop the market strategy. (Marketresearch 2012.)

The research will follow this project plan. The method that we use to reach the goal is based on research topic and objective. We will outline the result from the questionnaire and we also will create the statistics from it. The plan includes the analysis of possible risks that can appear during the research.

For the theoretical study, the research is divided to three main parts. First is the research plan, this part includes the theory of leadership from the contact hours and the comment and suggestion from the consulting meeting with the teachers. Research plan will be focusing on the theory in order for us to have deeper understanding in leadership skills and team dynamic. Second part is the action and activities, we will follow the methodology of the research plan by contact our target group. However, we have to consider the time as a main challenge. We might not be able to contact all the target students. At this stage, we may have to use other method such as online survey. The last part is the final report that we have to analyse after we receive all the answer from our target group. We will collect all the qualitative and quantitative data to outline the final analysis to our research. We have to be able to answer to our research questions and we have to come up with the tool kits to be the suggestion key in the future for successful leader and team dynamic in Porvoo campus.

The research will help us have a clearer understanding of leadership and management. This project will be based on the learning theory of leadership course. It includes the knowledge of managerial traits and skills, strategic leadership and power and influence, what will be teaching during the contact hour.

The researchers have to apply the knowledge from the course to outline the tool kits as a goal for this project. Since we have had some experiences in project work before, we hope that it will help us able to reach the goal and meet the success in project learning together with the good structure of search plan.