What practitioners consider to be the skills and behaviours of an effective people project manager

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 994-1002

  Fisher, Eddie ^a  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Behaviours; Managing people; People skills

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURS; COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE; FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEW; FOCUS GROUPS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MANAGING PEOPLE; PEOPLE MANAGEMENT; PEOPLE SKILLS; PROJECT ENVIRONMENT; PROJECT MANAGERS; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; SKILL SETS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; MANAGERS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80053052011     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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