Project Managers' Competence Identification

Authors:
Hannu Vanharanta;Heli Aramo-Immonen;Andrea Bikfalvi;Núria Mancebo
Affiliations:
Tampere University of Technology, Finland;Tampere University of Technology, Finland;University of Girona, Spain;University of Girona, Spain
Venue:
International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals
Year:
2011

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Abstract

The objective of this article is to help align higher education of future project managers to the contemporary requirements of global project business. The perspective is project managers' competencies in knowledge intensive industry, such as in IT branch. In this paper, it is considered that a holistic view of competence self-evaluation helps to assess the current intentional change. The system introduced supports decision making by measuring and capturing the actual drivers designed specifically for the role of project manager. Generalizing the competence identification process appears to be more constructive than detailing about competence content itself. This study brings valuable and novel empirical data using a sample of students acting as project managers in Spain and a sample of experienced project managers from Finland. A number of possible future studies using the same experimental set up are apparent.