Influence of Overconfidence, Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking on Project Manager's Decision Making Skills A Conceptual Paper

Abstract

Project management is a challenging profession as project managers need to be multi-skilled i.e. both technical and people oriented in handling all the scarce resources and minimizing risk to accomplish quality deliverables within deadlines set (PMI, 2008). However, there is still lack of understanding or research on how overconfidence, critical and creative thinking skills had influenced project managers’ decision making skills. This research model is based on “input-process-output” approach of General Systems Theory (Bertalanffy, 1968; McGrath, 1984) in which overconfidence, critical and creative thinking are hypothesized to influence project managers’ decision making skills. Research contributions are also included in this paper.