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- Title
What are the competencies of a successful project leader?
- Authors
Meyer, Andrea Michael
- Abstract
As many projects fail, the competences of successful project leaders are of high interest. In order to investigate the question what the competences of a successful project leader are three members from different hierarchical levels of a biopharmaceutical project team were interviewed individually. Competences identified were compared with those suggested by management literature. Interestingly it was found that the competences described by the participants: planning, progress tracking, goal setting, power, organisation & management skills, teambuilding and anticipation and foresight and intercultural savvy were similar to those published for other industries. Importantly a wide set of competences appeared to be of importance to successfully accomplish a project as a project leader in the biopharmaceutical industry and hence identification of individuals fulfilling these competences to a high degree may be challenging but beneficial to project outcome.
- Subjects
PROJECT management; PHARMACEUTICAL industry; BIOTECHNOLOGY industry research; CORE competencies; BUSINESS success
- Publication
International Journal of Management Cases, 2014, Vol 16, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
1741-6264
- Publication type
Article