Project manager selection: the decision process

Andrew G Swanson

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LIBRARY OF THE INSTITUTEMASSACHUSETTS TECHNOLOGYOF :;a-tm^rmMMmm WSt. TLUri.MASS. OCT 30 1964 DEWEY LIBRARY C^ ^ Research Program on the ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF AND DR Project Manager Selection: The ProcessDecision Andrew SwansonG. September, 1964 #70-64 Based on research carried out while the author was a Fellow in the Sloan Executive Development Program, a thesis entitled "Selection offor Project Managers in a Government Research Laboratory: A Study of the Decision Progress" submitted for the degree of Master of Science at M.I.T. June 1964. andThe thesis was supervised by Professors Donald G. Marquis William F. Pounds. Project Manager Selection: The Decision Process Andrew SwansonG. ABSTRACT Several executives with responsibility for selecting project managers in a government research laboratory were interviewed to investigate the pro- cess of making the selection decision. Actual people and situations were discussed. The inter- view data make it clear that the process of select- ing project managers is an understandable and des- cribable process even though it is carried out in an informal and mostly subconscious manner. A model of the decision process is presented. Data from a limited test were in accord with the model. The pattern found in the selection process has possible application to improvement of the particular decision process studied and also to the more general under- standing of decision processes.

Sujets

• Executive
• Recruitment (disambiguation)
• Decision making

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 17
• Langue: English

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