Project managers’ role: Towards a ‘descriptive’ approach

Abstract

Preoccupation with finance and cost-effectiveness had meant that the human side of project management has been severely neglected. There is a pressing need for a more ‘descriptive’ approach in which the manager's role as decision-maker is taken fully into account. In this model the demands made on the project manager as the man in the middle, the constraints of the job and the choices available must be considered. © 1989 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.