Overview
- Provides psychological know-how and scientifically based best practice to solve challenges in project management
- Serves as an every-day companion for practitioners in project management
- Includes checklists and highlights key issues in each chapter for quick reference
Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Managing Processes
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Managing the Project Environment
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Managing Innovation and Creativity
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applied Psychology for Project Managers
Book Subtitle: A Practitioner's Guide to Successful Project Management
Editors: Monika Wastian, Lutz Rosenstiel, Michael A. West, Isabell Braumandl
Series Title: Management for Professionals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44214-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-44213-5Published: 05 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52522-7Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-44214-2Published: 24 February 2015
Series ISSN: 2192-8096
Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 329
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Project Management, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Organization