KEY ASPECTS OF BUILDING MANAGEMENT TEAMS FOR PROJECT ACTIVITIES

Abstract

The policy of constant innovations, organizational changes, globalization, and the mass introduction of communication and information technologies render project teams an indispensable practice for a lot of contemporary companies. Teamwork is an essential feature of project activity, while project management encourages the establishment of teams. This is due to the fact that the benefits from applying modern methods and approaches t project management ultimately depends on the qualities and skills of both project team leaders and members. The up-to-date nature of the issues researched in this article stems from the growing significance of project activity in the business world and the awareness that organisations need to increasingly employ project teams so as to adapt to dynamic organizational changes. The objective of this article is to study the key aspects of building and managing project activity teams. In order to accomplish this objective, the following major tasks have been set: (1) to present the main groups of processes involved in project management and to examine teamwork activity; (2) to identify the nature and features of project teams which distinguish them from other types of teams; (3) to study the individual stages through whic project teams go in the process of their formation and to analyse the processes related to organising, managing and leading project team members; (4) to present and analyse project team management models according to the nature of the organizational structure of management.