Management and Leadership Skills Among Academic Researchers in the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering

Abstract

Kathleen Melymuka asserts that project management requires competence in three areas: technology, business, and behavior (Melymuka, 2000). We could assume that the technology component exists in most managers of highly technical projects. The business component we could re-label as "management", particularly when we are concerned with the management of not-for-profit organizations, such as are found in an academic environment. The final component in which the successful project manager is required to be competent, is behavior. She equates this with "leadership." Therefore, restating her thesis, competent technical project mangers in order to be effective must also possess competencies in both management skills and leadership skills.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA380228

Entities

People

  • Robert T. Krumm

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  • Vanderbilt University

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  • Autonomy
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  • Commerce
  • Education
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  • Governments
  • Information Exchange
  • Instructors
  • Literature Surveys
  • Management Training
  • New York
  • Personnel Management
  • Project Management
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  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering
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  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
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