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What is Competency School

Chapter 4
Handbook of Research on Technology Project Management, Planning, and Operations
A school of leadership theories which encompasses all earlier schools. It is multidimensional and includes the personal characteristics, knowledge and skills of the leader. The competency school assumes that different competence profiles are appropriate in different circumstances.
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Leadership in Technology Project Management
Ralf Müller (Umeå School of Business, Sweden and BI Norwegian School of Management, Norway)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-400-2.ch004
Abstract
This chapter addresses project managers’ leadership styles, mainly from the perspective of technology projects. It starts by defining and outlining the need for leadership, and then describes the historical schools and the recent schools of leadership theory. Subsequently the focus turns to current leadership research in project management, and its related theories. Subsequently, the personality profiles of successful project managers in different types of projects are presented. The chapter ends with some managerial and theoretical implications, as well as scholarly challenges for further research and future developments in this area.
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