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Analysis of the Visual Perception of the Competences of Project Managers

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  • Rocio Poveda-Bautista

    (INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46020 Valencia, Spain)

  • Jose-Antonio Diego-Mas

    (i3B, Institute for Research and Innovation in Bioengineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46020 Valencia, Spain)

  • Jorge Alcaide-Marzal

    (i3B, Institute for Research and Innovation in Bioengineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46020 Valencia, Spain)

Abstract

Based on the appearance of their faces, we attribute to people personality traits, moods, capacities, or competences. This unconscious process plays a central role in our everyday decisions and how we choose partners or our favorite candidate. This work is the first approach to the analysis of the influence of appearance-driven judgments of faces in the project management field. The main objective of this study was to obtain an approximate image of the general mental prototype of the face of a project manager using noise-based reverse correlation. The obtained image shows the features of the faces that drive the perception of a good project manager. The face shows very high average scores for all the competences recognized in the IPMA Individual Competence Baseline when assessed by a sample of project management practitioners. From these results, it can be stated that people have clearly defined prototypes of facial features that convey the perception of being a competent project manager, and this finding may have implications in the project management field.

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  • Rocio Poveda-Bautista & Jose-Antonio Diego-Mas & Jorge Alcaide-Marzal, 2021. "Analysis of the Visual Perception of the Competences of Project Managers," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-15, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:9:p:4984-:d:545884
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