Leadership in ITC Project Management in Japan

This paper presents a framework and empirical analyses for the survey data from 1,678 managers and professionals working in a collaborative environment for Japanese software houses to understand managerial roles played by the project leaders. The results of the research model using SEM show that there are significant, very strong positive relationships between leadership and those managerial roles, such as human relations, internal process, as well as open system, while the relationship between leadership and goals is negative and significant.