Project Managers skills, a comparative study of different maganement styles.

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Management, and especially project management skills are considered as a very important personal asset in times of great compexity of infrastructures of production, especially in an intercultural enviroment.

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[...] Differents forms of modern project management a. The necessary knoledge of a clear strategic analysis of its own organisation by the project manager In order to perform a clear strategic analyses, a project manager can rely on the theory proposed by Crozier and Friedberg. It offers the capacity to analyse not only the project but also the organisation in which this project will take place in order to prevent some problems and especially to create an analysis by the project managers of all the risk areas that could danger or difficult the project. [...]

[...] At the same time, this lack of autonomy can be considered as counterproductive in fields needing innovation and creativity. This is an important flaw as the innovation is a key element in the survival of a company on the long term. Last but not least, considering the money as the only tool to motivate people is, in my opinion, a mistake as demonstrated later by the school of human ressources, and b. School of Human relations the school of human relations is often understood as a theory built in opposition to taylorism. [...]

[...] As mentionned, we are first going to study and analyse the inputs of classic management on the projet managers skills and try to figure out in what context and facing what type of environment those qualities and skills will be the most relevant. Then, we will do the same type of analysis but regarding moderns and more recent methods of management. Once again, the study will focus on an analysis of theses theories inputs on the project management globally, and especially on the skills that are required from a projet manager. [...]

[...] What is more, more and more projects in the future will be performed by joint ventures and cooperation programs between different entities and companies. In that context, the capacity to ensure a correct coordination between all the members of a project will required a higher degree of psychology as the capacity for the project manager to compel will reduce due lack of hierarchical structure. Last but not least, I believe in the fact that social skills will be one of the most important elements in the future especially as the classic hierarchical forms of productions tends to decline, at least in more moderns parts of the industry. [...]

[...] All orders are mandatory and no room is given to subordinates for discussion. – The permissive style. This style is supposed to be very specific to managers with high technical capacities but low managerial skills. It mostly relies on centralised decisions but with very few attention paid to the human and social aspect of the group. – The democratic style: This style of management is, for Lewin, the best you can use as it encourages staff and employees to commit with the decisions. [...]