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How do project team members feel about their project managers?

New paper by Prof Marco Sampietro in Italy reveals surprising research results

11 July 2015 – Dallas, TX, USA and Milan, Italy – Marco Sampietro, professor at SDA Bocconi School of Management at Bocconi University in Milan, has authored a new important research-based paper titled “Project Managers: A Project Team Member’s Perspective”. His paper, originally presented at the 4th Scientific Conference on Project Management in the Baltic States at the University of Latvia in April 2015, was republished in the July edition of the PM World Journal and has been added to the PM World Library.

According to Dr. Sampietro’s introduction, “While the Project Manager role and competencies have been addressed in various studies (PMI, 2007, Brill, Bishop, and Walker, 2006, El-Sabaa, 2001, Crawford, 2000, Patterson, 1991), none of these studies was based on answers provided by project team members. This is peculiar, since although the important contribution made by project team members to project success is widely recognized (Shenhar et al., 2002) little or no attention has been devoted to listening to their voices… In order to obviate this shortcoming, this study focused on how project team members evaluate the project manager role and behaviours. A questionnaire was sent to more than 1000 people, 108 were considered valid… Among the findings we can mention that team members consider the project manager role very important but did not consider many of the project managers they worked with suitable for the role…”

140609-PMWL-Logo-125-01To read this paper in the PM world Library, go to the author’s showcase at https://pmworldlibrary.net/authors/marco-sampietro/ and click on the title. Access is free, but must be a logged-in library member to access after 10 August 2015.

 

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