Crawford, L (2001) Project management competence: the value of standards. PhD thesis, Henley Business School, UK.
Abstract
As more organisations adopt project management approaches and the demand for project managers grows, there is increasing interest in the competence of project managers and in standards for development and assessment of project management competence. Project management standards are being used extensively throughout the world in training and development, professional certification programmes and corporate project management methodologies, based on the assumption that there is a positive relationship between standards and effective workplace performance. However, there has been no empirical research reported that supports or indeed questions this assumption.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | competencies; project management practice; certification; training; profession |
| Index terms: | programme, project management practice, certification, competence, methodology, project manager, project management, profession |
| Subjects: | profession, institututions, project controls, administrative processes, research methods, personnel development, project management theory and practice |
| Topics: | Research Practice, Roles and Professions, Human Resources, Time Control, Contract Administration, Project Management |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCT |
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