Evaluating Project Managers by an Interval Decision-Making Method Based on a New Project Manager Competency Model

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1417-1430

  Sadeghi, Hasan ^a   Mousakhani, Morteza ^b   Yazdani, Mehdi ^a   Delavari, Mehdi ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Competency model; Evaluation; Goal programming; Interval data; Project manager; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893096142     PISSN: 2193567X     EISSN: 21914281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13369-013-0631-0     Document Type: Article

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