In this research, we try to develop a model in order to select a project manager for petroleum industry. The proposed model is based on multi criteria decision making and a statistical method named principle component analysis (PCA). | Project manager selection based on project manager competency model PCA MCDM Approach Journal of Project Management 1 2016 7 20 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Journal of Project Management homepage Project manager selection based on project manager competency model PCA MCDM Ap- proach Mojtaba Sadatrasoola Ali Bozorgi-Amirib and Abolghasem Yousefi-Babadib a Faculty of Caspian College of Engineering University of Tehran Tehran Iran b School of Industrial Engineering College of Engineering University of Tehran Tehran Iran CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Personnel selection is one of the most important problems that organizations have to deal with. Received October 1 2016 Competent personnel is one of the key factors for the success of organizations. Project manager Received in revised format No- selection due to special requirements is significantly important. A project manager must have vember 16 2016 the ability of managing costs time and resources through the optimistic way. Furthermore he she Accepted January 20 2017 Available online has to own general management skills and benefit from adequate information about the project January 20 2017 context. Project managers in petroleum industry carry very important duties than other project Keywords managers. In this research we try to develop a model in order to select a project manager for Project Manager Selection petroleum industry. The proposed model is based on multi criteria decision making and a statis- PCA tical method named principle component analysis PCA . The methodology considers all of the TOPSIS important criteria and benefit from an experienced expert panel in order to extract the weights VIKOR of the criteria. Also a numerical example demonstrates the function of the model and is verified by VIKOR method. 2017 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction One of the most important decisions in project management is to choose project managers. Project .
