The Contribution of Project Managers' Soft Skills to their Project Success

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dc.contributor.authorGulati, R.
dc.contributor.authorReaiche, C.H.
dc.contributor.authorBaroudi, S.
dc.contributor.authorGunawan, I.
dc.contributor.conferenceAnnual Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM) (3 Dec 2019 - 6 Dec 2019 : Cairns, Australia)
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this paper is to identify key soft skills required by project managers and its impact to their project success. The authors have performed a Comprehensive Literature Review (meta-framework) as an evidence to support the argument that project managers could increase the chances of projects being successful by applying their soft skills to manage project team and its performance. The findings of this review demonstrates that the identified soft skills are active listening, communication, conceptual skills, conflict management, human resource management, team management, human skills, leadership skills, motivation skills, negotiation skills, people skills , political and cultural awareness, professionalism and ethics. These skills are critical towards project success, however, it is also identified that soft skills and hard skills, both work in conjunction with each other to attain success. This review provides a significant contribution by establishing the need of developing soft skills in project managers in order to manage teams effectively and efficiently, thereby increasing their performance and the chances of project being successful.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityRicha Gulati, Carmen Haule Reaiche, Sam Baroudi, Indra Gunawan
dc.identifier.citationProceedings of the 33rd Annual Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Wicked Solutions to Wicked Problems (ANZAM 2019), 2019, pp.336-357
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-6481109-5-8
dc.identifier.orcidGulati, R. [0000-0002-9666-6901]
dc.identifier.orcidReaiche, C.H. [0000-0001-5628-7504]
dc.identifier.orcidBaroudi, S. [0000-0002-1941-9763]
dc.identifier.orcidGunawan, I. [0000-0001-7357-509X]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/137595
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAustralian & New Zealand Academy of Management
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.rights© 2019 Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management.
dc.source.urihttps://www.anzam.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ANZ5696-ANZAM-Conference-Proceedings-Abstracts-2019-17-January-2020.pdf
dc.subjectsoft skills; project manager; project success
dc.titleThe Contribution of Project Managers' Soft Skills to their Project Success
dc.typeConference paper
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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