Analysis of the Visual Perception of the Competences of Project Managers

Rocio Poveda-Bautista, Jose-Antonio Diego-Mas and Jorge Alcaide-Marzal
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Rocio Poveda-Bautista: INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46020 Valencia, Spain
Jose-Antonio Diego-Mas: i3B, Institute for Research and Innovation in Bioengineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46020 Valencia, Spain
Jorge Alcaide-Marzal: i3B, Institute for Research and Innovation in Bioengineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46020 Valencia, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-15

Abstract: Based on the appearance of their faces, we attribute to people personality traits, moods, capacities, or competences. This unconscious process plays a central role in our everyday decisions and how we choose partners or our favorite candidate. This work is the first approach to the analysis of the influence of appearance-driven judgments of faces in the project management field. The main objective of this study was to obtain an approximate image of the general mental prototype of the face of a project manager using noise-based reverse correlation. The obtained image shows the features of the faces that drive the perception of a good project manager. The face shows very high average scores for all the competences recognized in the IPMA Individual Competence Baseline when assessed by a sample of project management practitioners. From these results, it can be stated that people have clearly defined prototypes of facial features that convey the perception of being a competent project manager, and this finding may have implications in the project management field.

Keywords: project management; face perception; competences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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