Project Management Competency Elements Valued by Project Managers in Construction Industry

Identifying and developing project managers’ competencies arebecoming more and more important in today’s competitive market. This importance also has absorbed the attention of main project management institutions such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and Australian institute of Project management (AIPM). These professional project management institutes have developed project managers’ competency standards and have addressed required competency elements for project managers in different industries and sectors. The aim of this research is to identify the importance degree of project management competency elements valued by less experienced project managers (Project managers with less than 10 years’ experience) in construction industry in Malaysia. The results of this research show that project managers in Malaysia construction industry believe that among 34 project management competency elements, 7 competency elements are considered as very important or core competency elements. These core competency elements are “Defining the project context”, “Guiding development of project scope definition”, “Implementing scope controls”, “Determining project Schedule”, “Implementing project schedule”, “Assessing time management outcomes”, and “Determining quality requirement”. Keywords-component;Project manager; project management competency elements; Construction