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Relationship Between Competent Project Managers and Performance of Projects: Risk Management Competency, Important but Neglected
Hosein Safari 1, Ahmad Jafarnejzad , Ahmadali yazdanpanah , Ali Bayati
1- , safarih@ut.ac.ir
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Performance improvement is an area which has been addressed considerably by researchers. However, HR performance Improvement has had less important compared to other resources of organizations. There is no doubt that effective training is the best way to improve and boost human resource performance in workplaces. A manager is competent if he /she demonstrates required competency of his/her job. But, the most important point is that whether having competent project managers can result in desirable performance of their projects or not. The authors in the first step have defined competency, project manager competency, and project performance and maturity. Then, they have evaluated maturity of projects as well as competency of project managers of a state company as a case study (subsidiary of Iran Oil Ministry). Finally, they have determined the most important area of PM competency and also has examined relation between project managers’ competencies and projects’ performance or maturity. The results show that having competent project managers can improve performance of project for which they work and risk management is the most important project management competency.
Keywords: Competent project managers project performance competency
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Management
Received: 2014/12/18 | Accepted: 2017/04/23 | Published: 2017/07/5


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