Open AccessRELATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN DESIGN PROJECTS
Author(s) -
Claudia Bennett,
Minha R. Ha
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
proceedings of the ... ceea conference
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-5243
DOI - 10.24908/pceea.v0i0.10359
Subject(s) - interpersonal communication , psychology , interpersonal relationship , social skills , knowledge management , applied psychology , social psychology , computer science , developmental psychology
– As a continuation of previous research pertaining to the self-assessed effectiveness in various interpersonal aspects by undergraduate Mechanical Engineering students as the Lassonde School of Engineering, the authors present in this paper, the findings of new research elaborating upon areas of concern surmised from the prior study. Motivation for this new research stems from the previous data relating to interpersonal and team relational skills inadequacies and the experiences of this paper, the authors present the findings of new research continue upon previous research pertaining to undergraduate students in Mechanical Engineering program self-assessment of effectiveness. The main objective of this paper is to present upon the common challenges of design team projects according to students, and the influence (or relation) effective and/or ineffective interpersonal relationship skills have upon those challenges. Results from this investigation indicates that human-related challenges experienced in team projects stem largely from ineffective manipulation of communication and relational skills and the various facets of team dynamics directly and indirectly affected by them. Additionally, research indicated that females team members had more gendered experiences with their teams. The author found there to be correlations between the negative female experiences and ineffective relational / interpersonal skills.