The challenges of assessment of project managers’ competences

Abstract

The aim of this paper was to discuss different theoretical perspectives of competence and to present the results of wide-scale international survey on the competencies of project managers. The differences between objectivist and constructivist points of competence construct were analyzed by emphasizing contextuality vs universality of the its content. In the paper the variety of project managers’ competence models were presented on the basis of the practical and theoretical methodologies. The paper also presents the results of international survey which highlighted problematic points of EU funded projects management. On the basis of constructive approach the needs and opinions of all groups participating in projects management as well as educational institutions responsible for project managers’ preparation were studied. The survey showed that project managers lack communication and intercultural communication competencies, development of partnership, leadership, monitoring, risk and time management competencies.