What skills do project managers (PMs) need, and how do these skills impact project success in IT outsourcing? In this study, we seek to identify what factors impact IT project outcomes, such as costs and client satisfaction, given the project characteristics and PM’s hard and soft skills. We examine data collected from a field study conducted at a major IT service provider in India. Our results...

as a source of motivation for efl teachers in their work environment, their satisfaction with their manager’s behavior comprises the basis of the present study. through triangulation and employment of two types of interview, a regular one and an innovative adaptive type, we elicited iranian efl teachers’ perception of their managers’ management skills in the private sector. the two data were th...

the paper presents some considerations about the leaders’ management skills and professional abilities needed into a SME. The paper also presents considerations regarding personnel motivation, interpersonal relationships, organizational climate and leadership style.

The paper explores the evolving role of the revenue manager and will argue the need for a formal revenue management (RM) qualification. When RM is deployed ineffectively this raises the financial risk inherent in the concept. Service firms need to clearly define RM roles and ensure those involved in RM have the right skill-set. With a view to regulating revenue management approaches, data was c...

the purpose of this paper is to study how the characteristics of successful managers are somehow related to their programme in co-operatives. the study shows there is a significant relationship between managers' characteristics such as innovation, authority and leadership, with managerial skills, self confidence and degree of success. however, there is no correlation between intelligence, ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship betweenunderstanding and application of quantum skills in sports organizations. thestudy method was descriptive. the statistical population consisted ofmanagers of the ministry of sport and youth and the heads of selected sportsfederations (n=59). the data were analyzed by descriptive and inferentialstatistics. for data analysis, spearma...

Using a large proprietary database of institutional trades for the period 1999-2005, this paper examines the interim (i.e., intra-quarter) trading skills of institutional investors. We find strong evidence that institutional investors earn significant abnormal returns on their intra-quarter round-trip trades. Furthermore, the stocks institutions buy significantly outperform the stocks instituti...

Project managers require temporal skills and the ability to improvise when linear assumptions confront the complexities of managing projects within a context of strategic calculation. While the management and organization (MOS) literature emphasizes the importance of temporal skills for managing uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity, a dearth of project management literature contributes to this...