Applied Psychology for Project Managers: A Practitioner's Guide to Successful Project Management

✍ Scribed by Monika Wastian, Lutz von Rosenstiel, Michael A. West, Isabell Braumandl (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Series: Management for Professionals
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers an essential manual for project managers, project management offices (PMO’s), trainers and consultants, addressing the psychological side of project management. Written by leading scholars in organizational psychology and by top experts in project management, it covers all major psychological topics that are key to project success. The book features dedicated chapters on leadership and teamwork, including virtual and intercultural cooperation, commitment and motivation of project teams. It adds a psychological perspective to personnel management, decision-making, information and knowledge management and communication in project work. Power, influencing tactics and other aspects of stakeholder management are covered, as well as project coaching, innovation and creativity, self-management and the management of conflicts, risks and crises.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Project Lifecycles: Challenges in and Approaches to Process Design from a Psychological Perspective....Pages 19-36
Effective Decision Making and Problem Solving in Projects....Pages 37-52
Communication in Projects....Pages 53-72
Knowledge Management for Projects....Pages 73-84
Project Coaching: An Effective Means for Successful Projects....Pages 85-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Personnel Psychology in Project Management....Pages 107-128
Power and Interpersonal Influence in Successful Project Management....Pages 129-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Positive Project Management Teams....Pages 149-159
Dreamteam or Nightmare? Collaboration in Project Teams....Pages 161-177
Commitment and Identification with Projects....Pages 179-195
The Project Leader as Executive....Pages 197-212
Self-Management for Project Managers....Pages 213-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Innovation and Creativity in Project Teams....Pages 233-247
Creative Thinking....Pages 249-266
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
The Management of Risk and Crises in Projects....Pages 269-286
Project Management in International Teams....Pages 287-304
Project Management in Distributed Virtual Teams....Pages 305-321
Back Matter....Pages 323-329

✦ Subjects

Project Management; Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology; Organization/Planning