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Strategies to Develop Critical Social Project Management Competencies for Engineers /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Strategies to Develop Critical Social Project Management Competencies for Engineers // Busani Mpofu.
作者:	Mpofu, Busani,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (103 pages)
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International86-05.
標題:	Problem solving. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31715634
ISBN:	9798346550167

Strategies to Develop Critical Social Project Management Competencies for Engineers /
Mpofu, Busani,

Strategies to Develop Critical Social Project Management Competencies for Engineers /Busani Mpofu. - 1 electronic resource (103 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05.

Rapid socio-technological changes, greatly impacted by the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), have made today's engineering environment complicated, unstable, unpredictable, competitive, and demanding. As a result, most engineering firms have resorted to adopting the projectised organisational structure, which allows them to achieve their business goals through projects. However, the success of projectised organisations relies heavily on the competency of the project managers who happen to be engineers in an engineering firm. Engineers are, therefore, now required to undertake project management duties in addition to their traditional technical duties. Unfortunately, the literature shows that many engineers have no intention of becoming project managers, and they fall into the profession without formal training and professional certification. Consequently, many engineers struggle or fail as project managers because they lack the social competencies required to manage projects, although they have good technical competencies. This is because engineers are intrinsically technical people due to their intensive technical education and training. Therefore, this research study was aimed at determining the social competencies required for engineers to be competent project managers and the strategies for developing such competencies in engineers.To achieve this aim, quantitative survey research was adopted. Initially, a literature review was conducted to determine the critical social competencies and strategies to develop such competencies by examining and studying several published research papers. Several social competencies were identified from the literature; therefore, to determine the most critical competencies, the competencies mentioned in several different selected research papers were deemed critical. To narrow down these critical competencies further, they were subjected to code co-occurrence analysis using Atlas.ti to determine the relationship between these competencies. The competencies with high code co-occurrences, i.e. those with a good and positive relationship with each other, were finally regarded as the critical social competencies for project managers. In addition, strategies to develop such critical competencies were determined. To verify the findings of the literature review, data was collected through questionnaires from the target population, which consisted of graduate/junior engineers and senior engineering professionals. Based on the triangulation of collected data with literature review findings, seven social competencies were identified as critical to project managers, and these are communication, teamwork, leadership, self-management, problem-solving, decision-making and flexibility. In addition, action learning, cooperative learning, problem-based learning, coaching, recreational or social activities and restorative practices were found to be the best strategies for developing these critical competencies.

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