An algorithm for building a project team considering interpersonal relations of employees

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https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2016.85222

Keywords:

project team, sociometric matrix, sociometric indices, group interaction, interpersonal relations in team

Abstract

The setting of the problem of building a project team considering interpersonal relations between the employees was formulated.

While selecting an employee to a project team, it is proposed to consider his contribution to inter-group interaction, which is determined on the basis of the number of choices and rejections, given and obtained by each candidate in the process of sociometric survey.

We proposed improvement of the procedure of sociometric survey, which allows taking into consideration the degree of preference (rejection) of each other by the individuals while filling in sociometric cards and when calculating individual sociometric indices, which makes it possible to decrease the uncertainty during selection of candidates to a project team.

The algorithm of solution of the problem of building a project team by the criterion of the maximum total contribution of employees to group interaction was developed, in which ranking procedure of sociometric survey was used.

It is expedient to build a project team by the criterion of maximum total contribution of employees to group interaction in the case, when each candidate can perform only one role in the project. If employees of a company can perform different roles in the project, the proposed criterion of individual contribution of employees to group interaction can be used as a particular criterion in the overall model of multifactor evaluation of candidates to a project team. 

Author Biographies

Zulfiya Imangulova, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics Nauky ave., 14, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 61166

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of System Engineering

Liudmyla Kolesnyk, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics Nauky ave., 14, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 61166

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of System Engineering

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2016-12-19

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Imangulova, Z., & Kolesnyk, L. (2016). An algorithm for building a project team considering interpersonal relations of employees. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 6(3 (84), 19–25. https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2016.85222

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Vol. 6 No. 3 (84) (2016): Control processes

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Control processes

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