Purpose Managing projects is an important part of operations management, but many fail. This study focuses on attribution processes such disruption from the underrepresented perspective project manager. The authors consider two types causes: more frequently researched environmental uncertainty (i.e. uncontrollable events) and scarcely imposed by non-collaborative sponsors other-controllable eve...

What skills do project managers (PMs) need, and how do these skills impact project success in IT outsourcing? In this study, we seek to identify what factors impact IT project outcomes, such as costs and client satisfaction, given the project characteristics and PM’s hard and soft skills. We examine data collected from a field study conducted at a major IT service provider in India. Our results...

BACKGROUND Based on the current emphasis on competency-based education, as a part of need assessment phase of dental curriculum revision in Iran, in the present study the dental graduates' perspective concerning the minimum competency requirements for an Iranian general dentist has been investigated. METHODS Based on the three available major competency documents in the literature a questionn...

The aim of this paper is to identify Critical Success Factors (CSF) needed for effective material recovery through Design for Deconstruction (DfD). The research approach employed in this paper is based on a sequential exploratory mixed method strategy. After a thorough review of literature and conducting four Focus Group Discussion (FGDs), 43 DfD factors were identified and put together in a qu...

As organizations globalize their operations, there is a heightened need to identify and select qualified managers for overseas assignments. The increased complexity of these foreign assignments necessitates a recalibration of the traditional selection procedures and processes used in the past. In particular, there is some evidence that expatriation becomes strategic as organizations increasingl...

The rapid development of technologies is creating a new digital reality in human resource management. In the context transition to economy and transformation traditional classical organizations ones, management decentralization will take place on basis technologies. most important characteristic feature organization interaction HR service with employees using mobile applications. Predictive ana...