A Leadership Profile of American Project Managers

Zimmerer, Thomas W.; Yasin, Mahmoud M.

doi:10.1177/875697289802900107

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“…Other studies provide additional evidence that leadership is a critical competency area in project management (El-Sabaa, 2001;Sotiriou & Wittmer, 2001;Zimmerer & Yasin, 1998). However, leadership is conceptualized slightly differently across studies, making it challenging to think, write, and speak about it.…”

Section: Project Management Competencies Informing the Literature Anmentioning

confidence: 94%

The Competencies and Characteristics Required of an Effective Project Manager: A Web-Based Delphi Study

Brill

Bishop

Walker

2006

EDUCATION TECH RESEARCH DEV

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In this study, we explore the competencies required for a project manager to be effective in the workplace. We used a Web-based Delphi method to lead experienced project managers through an anonymous consensus-building process consisting of two rounds of surveys. The Round I analysis of 147 respondents, all with 20 or more years of project management experience, yielded 117 project management success factors, 78 of which were identified as trainable competencies. The Round II analysis confirmed 42 of the 78 competencies (53.8%) as very important to extremely important to project manager success. Important contributions of this study include: (a) reporting on project manager competencies that can inform the literature and guide the development of educational programs for instructional designers and other professionals, and (b) demonstrating the Web-based Delphi technique to be an efficient methodology for conducting a front-end analysis, a core process of instructional design (ID) work.Keywords: project management, instructional design, front-end analysis, Delphi technique Institutions of higher education are striving increasingly to implement innovative programs that address the real-world needs of contemporary workers (Klein, 1999). Further, colleges and universities face growing competition from other educational enterprises, commercial and nonprofit, that target working adults (Graves, 1997). The informed and systematic development of new programs is vital to attracting and satisfying today's adult learners,

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Section: Project Management Competencies Informing the Literature Anmentioning

confidence: 94%

The Competencies and Characteristics Required of an Effective Project Manager: A Web-Based Delphi Study

Brill

Bishop

Walker

2006

EDUCATION TECH RESEARCH DEV

180

175

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“…First, administrative and supervisory skills, which include leadership ability, communication skills and problem-solving skills; secondly technical knowledge, which includes project knowledge, experience in the field and education level; and thirdly personal abilities which includes selfconfidence, decisiveness, personal integrity, entrepreneurship and aggressiveness. In contrast, Zimmerer and Yasin (1998) suggest that, historically, strong technical skills and knowledge have been the key selection criteria and that today's complex project environments require greater skills in leadership than ever before. They claim that performance expectations for quality, cost-effectiveness, timely delivery, and a host of other client measures are ratcheted up each year, and rank the characteristics of an effective project manager as: leadership, vision, technical competence, decisiveness, good communication, good motivation and supportive to other team members.…”

Section: Supervising Engineer Effectiveness Factorsmentioning

confidence: 83%

Assessing the performance of Libyan supervising engineers

Krima

Wood

Aouad

et al. 2007

Construction Management and Economics

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In the Libyan construction industry, the supervising engineer plays an important role in checking time schedules and protecting the client from delays and associated claims but there is no existing means of determining their proficiency in performing this task. A list of factors identifying a broad range of characteristics and skills necessary for the effective supervision of construction projects is compiled. A field survey comprising semi‐structured interviews and questionnaires with 32 client and contractor project managers experienced in the Libyan construction sector is undertaken. The responses are used to develop a method of assessing the effectiveness of supervising engineers in dealing with construction project delays through a set of weighted criteria which are scored according to currently perceived levels of performance. The results indicate that Libyan supervising engineers are currently deficient in a number of areas, particularly communication skills (33%); obtained scientific, technical and legal knowledge (34%); knowledge in dealing with claims (36%); previous experience (37%); knowledge and use of modern techniques (37%). These factors are therefore a key focus for the professional development needs of supervising engineers and the method of assessment should assist clients in the process of selection and appointment

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“…There are, however a variety of leadership styles that may be applicable for dealing with the many challenges faced by project management [17].…”

Section: B Leadership In Project Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role of Leadership Competence of the Project Managers for Achieving Project Success in Evaluation

Sharipova¹,

Zhang²

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 International Symposium on Business Cooperation and Development

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Abstract-Demand of human are dynamic and to lead or manage them require to be adapted to or be flexible in each situation depending on location, culture and capacity of those managers (Muller, 2010). The purpose of this paper is to explore theoretical relative importance of project managers' a leadership competences for achieving project success. Based on theoretical approaches of scientists Leadership competences can be assessed as emotional, managerial, and intellectual competences (EQ, MQ, IQ, respectively).

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A Leadership Profile of American Project Managers

Cited by 105 publications

References 4 publications

The Competencies and Characteristics Required of an Effective Project Manager: A Web-Based Delphi Study

The Competencies and Characteristics Required of an Effective Project Manager: A Web-Based Delphi Study

Assessing the performance of Libyan supervising engineers

Role of Leadership Competence of the Project Managers for Achieving Project Success in Evaluation

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