Soft skills, do we know what we are talking about?

SI Marin-Zapata, JP Román-Calderón… - Review of Managerial …, 2022 - Springer
During the last decade, individual competencies and soft skills have reached a position of
paramount importance among scholars in different fields. Yet, there seems to be a lack of …

Crafting project managers' careers: Integrating the fields of careers and project management

J Akkermans, A Keegan, M Huemann… - Project management …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Project managers experience unique careers that are not yet sufficiently understood, and
more people than ever before are pursuing such careers. The research on project …

Reach for the sky: Analysis of behavioral competencies linked to project success

S Sampaio, Q Wu, K Cormican… - International Journal of …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The issue of project managers' competencies has gained much traction in practice
and more recently in academic debate. However, they have become analogous to extensive …

The future of digitalized project practices through data-savvy talent: A digital competence formation perspective

Y Liu, N Zeng, E Papadonikolaki, K Maritshane… - Project Leadership and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Amidst the disruptive backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations are navigating
toward a new normal, leveraging digital technologies to reconfigure business processes and …

Project leaders in transition: Manifestations of cognitive and emotional capacity

M Floris, S Cuganesan - International Journal of Project Management, 2019 - Elsevier
This research contributes to a dearth of research into leadership that focuses explicitly on
senior leaders of complex projects. It identifies five transitions that were seen as essential as …

Develo** project managers' transversal competences using building information modeling

F Zamora-Polo, M Martinez Sanchez-Cortes… - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Building information modeling can be used as a virtual learning
environment for develo** future project managers' competences. Abstract The emergence …

Priming the project talent pipeline: Examining work readiness in undergraduate project management degree programs

J Borg, CM Scott-Young - Project Management Journal, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Undergraduate education is emerging as a direct pathway into the previously deemed
'accidental profession'of project management. We introduce the concept of graduate work …

Investigating staff capabilities to make projects resilient: A systematic literature review and future directions

J Ram - International Journal of Production Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Projects are increasingly confronted with uncertainties and unexpected events, which
necessitate having capabilities to build resilience to cope with such events. Yet, the …

Assessment of project manager's competence in the context of individual competence baseline

M Sołtysik, M Zakrzewska, A Sagan, S Jarosz - Education Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study's aim is to determine the consistency of student opinions regarding the
importance of individual skills in three areas—people, practice, and perspective—with …

Mindfulness matters: unravelling its influence on job demands and emotional exhaustion in remote work

A Deshpande, R Raut, A Mittal, N Kaul - International Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The study aims to investigate the impact of job demands-client-front demands
(JDCF) and job demands-office-front demands (JDOF) and family demands (FD) on the …