The Profile of the Project Manager in Academia

Stanislav Percic () and Irina Teodora Manolescu ()
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Stanislav Percic: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Development Projects Office
Irina Teodora Manolescu: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi

A chapter in Organizations and Performance in a Complex World, 2021, pp 229-244 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The universities are the organizations that use projects to a great extent as instruments of change. The literature highlights a direct link between the project manager’s competences and the success of the project. This paper aims at identifying the main characteristics of the project managers from universities, starting from an extensive documentation of all development projects implemented within a representative university of the Romanian academic environment, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi. In this context, characteristics related to gender, occupation, and level of academic career were analyzed. This study, through a focus group, captures the particular aspects of the appointment of the project managers by project category, and highlights the difficulties encountered and the adequacy of the held competences to overcome these. The conclusions focus on the synthesis of the main features of the project managers’ competences, as well as the recommendations for improving their appointment in the university environment.

Keywords: Project manager; University environment; Competence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50676-6_18

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