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Examining The Influence Of Shared Leadership And Political Skill On The Relationship Between Project Management Complexity And Project Team Effectiveness In Organizations, Cathy Cockrell Dec 2014

Examining The Influence Of Shared Leadership And Political Skill On The Relationship Between Project Management Complexity And Project Team Effectiveness In Organizations, Cathy Cockrell

Human Resource Development Theses and Dissertations

Organizations are experiencing increasing complexity due to global competition, technological advances, and dynamic political and environmental circumstances. Therefore, organizations are driven to find new ways to stay competitive, including the increased use of project teams and the formulation of new types of project team leadership structures to manage complex and innovative work. The aim of this study was to examine shared leadership and political skill in project teams within the context of project management complexity, and the influence of these factors on project team effectiveness. A quantitative cross-sectional survey design was used as the approach for data collection. A pilot …


Nartel Investment Plan 2012 – 2015, Shkumbin Hasani Jul 2014

Nartel Investment Plan 2012 – 2015, Shkumbin Hasani

Theses and Dissertations

This paper will study the Nartel Company Investment Plan 2012 through 2015. The paper will briefly define systems, project management and use of the systems in managing projects. The paper finally will study a case of an Investment Program Budget of the Organization based on their priorities, by approving and funding future projects, as well as monitor and control all projects that the Budget Organization of Nartel Company is implementing. The paper will examine a real life example and by doing that the paper will show advantages of the Investment Plan during the period of 2012 through 2015.


The Impact Of User Involvement On Information System Projects, Bradford Reese Eichhorn Jan 2014

The Impact Of User Involvement On Information System Projects, Bradford Reese Eichhorn

ETD Archive

Information systems (IS) development has been studied from many perspectives. Information systems are being viewed as a service as the economy shifts from being industrial-based to service-based. This shift is motivating the business user to become more involved with the development of the system. The once clear roles of user-as-specifier and IT professional-as-developer are blurring. This research addresses three objectives. First, we survey the actual business users themselves for their perception of activities and satisfaction with the completed system. Second, we analyze the separation of business requirements into two constructs representing the functional and presentation dimensions of these requirements to …