Studies have shown that project managers are responsible for the successful management of various projects. Increasingly, this success depends on manager being a knowledge worker (KW)—i.e., possessing and utilizing both “hard” “soft” skills/competencies to manage assigned Nonetheless, there has not been enough studies what these competencies are, especially in context developing countries (DCs)...

Public and private sector managers are starting to talk of ‘systems thinking’ as one of the key business competencies of their staff. At the same time, training managers in some enterprises, including the Defence Organisation, are demanding that University management schools introduce a more structured ‘competency based’ approach. But what are ‘systems thinking competencies’? Is “competency bas...

One of the most important questions in project management is how to assign new projects to project managers. This question is especially challenging when a project manager already leads multiple, concurrent projects, e.g., a multiple-project manager of new product development projects in typical high-tech industries. To address this question, we explored the project assignment process of six ma...

Purpose – This study is the first of a five-phase research project sponsored by the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD), an organization of environmental program managers operating under the umbrella of the National Council for Science and the Environment. The purpose of the project is to determine if a consensus on core competencies for environmental program graduates is achiev...

Identifying and developing project managers’ competencies arebecoming more and more important in today’s competitive market. This importance also has absorbed the attention of main project management institutions such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and Australian institute of Project management (AIPM). These professional project management institutes have developed project managers’ comp...

The articles in this issue are related in several ways. They both deal with important aspects of managing project teams. Holahan and Mooney provide guidance on how project teams can manage conflict to enhance decision outcomes and project performance. Dominick, Lechler and Aronson shed light on interpersonal behaviors that contribute to effective project leadership, providing guidelines for sel...

This paper presents an exploratory study of Information Systems (IS) competencies of business managers in Spain. Following resource-based theory and a knowledge-based view of IS competencies, an extensive review of the literature is conducted to identify a comprehensive list of IS competencies of business managers. In order to validate the business IS competence model, a Delphi study is conduct...

This paper presents an exploratory study of Information Systems (IS) competencies of business managers in Europe. Following resource-based theory and a knowledge-based view of IS competencies, an extensive review of the literature is conducted to identify a comprehensive list of IS competencies of business managers. In order to validate the business IS competence model, a Delphi study is conduc...

Despite the increasing number of strategic alliances, how to ensure their success is poorly understood. Studies suggest that up to seventy-five percent of alliances fail to meet their initial objectives due to a multitude of cultural, political, technological and human factors. If such an eclectic set of competencies is required for success, alliance management is clearly a difficult task for t...

This paper presents project managers (PM) competencies that influence the successful achievement of sustainable development (SD) projects. A relevant literature review is conducted to summarize PMs’ lead outstanding performance in Then, this has been narrowed down find out adoption and completion SD Considering different views, primary purpose exploration illustrate have a positive impact on pr...