Paper for the Track: Leadership, Teamwork and Human Resource Management

Understanding emotions in the organizational context is an important research issue and a strongly emerging field of research. The management of emotions is a new trend in management science. As there are also emotions involved in projects, there is a demand to consider emotions as well as management of emotions in project management. Project gain an increasing relevance in companies and in the society as organisational option to perform complex processes. Because of the high dynamic of projects emotions of individuals and teams in projects are invevitable. Emotions are an important factor of consideration. The management of emotions is a success factor in project management and a task of project management and a success factor in projects. Individuals and teams in projects need emotional competence (as part of social competence) to handle emotions. How to deal with these emotions and how to use emotions in the context of project management is part of the presentation.

Keywords:

Emotion , Project , System theory , Emotional Management , Project Management , Emotional Competence