Petr Čech

PROJECT MANAGER AND HIS/HER COMPETENCIES

Abstract Competencies of a project manager are formed by a set of knowledge, skills, related experience, and ways of behaviour and attitudes. It is a way by which a project manager asserts his/her own professional knowledge to terminate a project successfully. There are different ways of a competencies division. Authors of this contribution focused on basic competencies and high performance competencies. Basic competencies of a project manager are comprehended as knowledge and skills that are indispensable for an own performance of managerial work. High performance competencies are relatively stable demonstrations of behaviour, by using them teams leaded by a project manager reach outstanding results. In contemporary entrepreneurial environment that is characterized by a high dynamics of changes, market globalization, strong competition and short time of launching technologies the basic competencies are not sufficient enough for a project manager. High performance competencies enable the project managers to manage effectively in contemporary turbulent environment. The competent project manager performs above standard, excellent performance.

Analysis of Potential Risks in the Current Tourism from the Perspective of Czech Travel Agencies

Tourism in recent years has experienced great development and become an important part of the global economy. Considering the increasing importance of tourism especially with the development of destination management and marketing this business is very sensitive to the political, economic, and particularly natural changes. This fact places heavy demands on the management of both private and public organizations involved in tourism in handling unexpected and crisis situations of different character. In this context it is important to realize peculiarities of the tourism market, resulting from the needs of the participants and the nature of tourism services. The paper is focused on the specifics of tourism in the context of analysis and risk management.