Project Management Competence or Designing Team Based Organizations

Project Management Competence: Building Key Skills for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

Author: J Davidson Fram

This is the first book to promote project management competence on all three levels necessary for overall effectiveness. J. Davidson Frame uses the guidelines he helped develop for the renowned Project Management Institute to define the most important competencies for individuals, teams, and organizations. He then provides development strategies and diagnostic tools to build and evaluate these competencies throughout the company. Frame paints a portrait of what the competent project manager looks like, how the competent project team operates, and how their efforts are supported by the project-competent organization.

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Frame, professor and dean of academic affairs at a new graduate school, the University of Management and Technology in Arlington, Virginia, describes the individual, team, and organizational competencies required to compete in business and the methods necessary to achieve them. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	The Author
Pt. 1	Project Management Competence for the Successful Organization
1	Developing Project-Competent Organizations	3
2	Why Competence Pays	18
3	Uncovering Organizational Pathologies	31
Pt. 2	The Competent Project Professional
4	The Project Professional's Knowledge Base	45
5	Developing the Project Management Knowledge Base	62
6	Developing People Management Skills: The Soft Side of Project Management	79
7	Developing Business-Related Competence	96
8	Assessing Individual Competence	112
Pt. 3	The Competent Project Team
9	Project Team Competence	137
10	Assessing Team Competence	156
Pt. 4	The Project-Competent Organization
11	Organizational Project Competence	179
12	Assessing Organizational Competence	199
13	Conclusion: Arriving at Competence	213
	References	221
	Index	225

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Designing Team-Based Organizations: New Forms for Knowledge Work

Author: Susan Albers Mohrman

"A terrific book!" —David A. Nadler, chairman, Delta Consulting Group Tackle the organizational issues related to implementing teams. Learn new designs to support the knowledge work components of organizations. Drawing on over fifteen years of research and consulting with such companies as Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Pacific Bell, General Mills, Pratt and Whitney, Pfizer, and Texas Instruments, the authors shows you how to create new organization designs that empower teams so that they make a real difference.

You'll discover how to:

• Design new work teams
• Identify new roles and responsibilities
• Manage team performance
• Create an empowering team environment

Over 50 tables, figures, and exhibits reinforce the practical text. Even if teams already exist at your organization, you'll use this well-researched guide to push your teams to higher levels of performance!