A review of the soft side in project management: concept, trends and challenges
Our aim is to analyze the changes that have taken place in the academic literature of project management induced by the growing interest in the soft side within project management, identifying concepts, trends and challenges. Based on a bibliometric approach, a systematic literature review focusing...
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doaj-863d7072af1240a7bd91757d1b4674d12020-11-24T21:25:16ZengUniversidade Estadual PaulistaGEPROS: Gestão da Produção, Operações e Sistemas1984-24302017-06-01120215717610.15675/gepros.v12i2.1644A review of the soft side in project management: concept, trends and challengesLuiz Fernando Cardoso dos Santos Durão0Marcelo Vinicius Di Favari Grotti1Paulo Rafael Minetto Maceta2Eduardo de Senzi Zancul3Fernando Tobal Berssaneti4Marly Monteiro Carvalho5Univ. de São Paulo - Escola Politécnica - Dep. de Eng. de ProduçãoUniv. de São Paulo - Escola Politécnica - Dep. de Eng. de ProduçãoUniv. de São Paulo - Escola Politécnica - Dep. de Eng. de ProduçãoUniv. de São Paulo - Escola Politécnica - Dep. de Eng. de ProduçãoUniv. de São Paulo - Escola Politécnica - Dep. de Eng. de ProduçãoUniv. de São Paulo - Escola Politécnica - Dep. de Eng. de ProduçãoOur aim is to analyze the changes that have taken place in the academic literature of project management induced by the growing interest in the soft side within project management, identifying concepts, trends and challenges. Based on a bibliometric approach, a systematic literature review focusing on content analysis was made in articles published from 1994 to 2015 in the ISI Web of Science and Scopus databases. The literature was found to maintain the separation between the hard and the soft side, being the soft side, for most researchers, an enabler of project performance and success. Each kind of examined skills provides different aspects of project quality and management, being the hard side clearer and more objective and the soft side more ambiguous and subjective. In the whole article, the base used 13 soft skills. The most cited among them was ‘Communication’, cited fifteen times, followed by ‘Leadership’ and ‘Teamwork’ cited nine times each. Despite the stronger impact of the soft skills in the project performance, the literature says that the project members, within the project team, must combine soft and hard skills towards the best performance of the projects.http://revista.feb.unesp.br/index.php/gepros/article/view/1644Soft Side.Soft SkillsProject Management |
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Luiz Fernando Cardoso dos Santos Durão Marcelo Vinicius Di Favari Grotti Paulo Rafael Minetto Maceta Eduardo de Senzi Zancul Fernando Tobal Berssaneti Marly Monteiro Carvalho A review of the soft side in project management: concept, trends and challenges GEPROS: Gestão da Produção, Operações e Sistemas Soft Side. Soft Skills Project Management |
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Luiz Fernando Cardoso dos Santos Durão Marcelo Vinicius Di Favari Grotti Paulo Rafael Minetto Maceta Eduardo de Senzi Zancul Fernando Tobal Berssaneti Marly Monteiro Carvalho |
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A review of the soft side in project management: concept, trends and challenges |
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A review of the soft side in project management: concept, trends and challenges |
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A review of the soft side in project management: concept, trends and challenges |
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A review of the soft side in project management: concept, trends and challenges |
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A review of the soft side in project management: concept, trends and challenges |
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review of the soft side in project management: concept, trends and challenges |
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Universidade Estadual Paulista |
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GEPROS: Gestão da Produção, Operações e Sistemas |
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Our aim is to analyze the changes that have taken place in the academic literature of project management induced by the growing interest in the soft side within project management, identifying
concepts, trends and challenges. Based on a bibliometric approach, a systematic literature review focusing on content analysis was made in articles published from 1994 to 2015 in the ISI Web of Science and Scopus databases. The literature was found to maintain the separation between the hard and the soft side, being the soft side, for most researchers, an enabler of project performance and success. Each kind of examined skills provides different aspects of project quality and management, being the hard side clearer and more objective and the soft side more ambiguous and subjective. In the whole article, the base used 13 soft skills. The most cited among them was ‘Communication’, cited fifteen times, followed by ‘Leadership’ and ‘Teamwork’ cited nine times each. Despite the stronger impact of the soft skills in the project performance, the literature says that the project members, within the project team, must combine soft and hard skills towards the best performance of the projects. |
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Soft Side. Soft Skills Project Management |
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