Year: 2013
Type: review
Study design: Systematic Review
Abstract: Project team is an arrangement of human resources having functional expertise in diverse fields leading a project towards its completion.Project managers use their experience and the project requirements to select and manage project teams depending on the qualities and characteristics each team member carries.However, the process of team selection and management is not an easy task because every project has different requirements and functionality.Here, we report an investigation of 60 most relevant studies carried out during the last decade.By conducting a systematic review we observed the factors affecting the assignment procedure of a team member to a project team.The majority of studies represent social skills (communication, coordination, trust) of an individual as the most vital attribute positively affecting project success.In addition, functional expertise and experience of a team member executing a project were also found to be important to any project.Although, it was observed that other factors like personality traits, culture, and team empowerment can only play a critical part in virtual and distributed projects.Moreover, group of the properties of individuals are combined in various studies for team selection by different researchers.In summary, the systematic review results in giving an insight to the properties required for an individual to be adapted for a specific project guiding it towards its success.
Author: Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad
Language: English
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3095286331