15Apr 2020

THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL IMPROVISATION IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTEXT TOSOFT SKILLS EMERGENCE: MOROCCAN PUBLIC SECTOR CASE STUDIES

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  • Professor of Higher Education at Mohamed V University Souissi Rabat.
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Characterized by an interdisciplinary approach to achieve specific objectives within a fixed deadline anda defined quality, project management has experienced increasing success in recent decades, mainly the public sector in Morocco.Organizational improvisation has become the most adopted model,leading to its institutionalization, in certain public establishment, which allowed the emergence of several skills among project actors particularly soft skills.Based on a literature review and a qualitative survey carried out in four public organization, this article aims to identify some soft skills that were developed in a project environment.

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[Oikaoui Mokhtar and El Oualidi Moamed Najib (2020); THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL IMPROVISATION IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTEXT TOSOFT SKILLS EMERGENCE: MOROCCAN PUBLIC SECTOR CASE STUDIES Int. J. of Adv. Res. 8 (Apr). 343-355] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

OIKAOUI Mokhtar, EL OUALIDI Moamed Najib
Mohamed V University Souissi Rabat

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/10786      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/10786

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