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@proceedings{Bianes2025,

title = {Essential Soft Skills for Construction Project Managers to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals: A Bibliometric and Comprehensive Review},

author = {Joseph Raniel Alvarez Bianes and Armando Victoria Jr and Manuel M. Muhi},

url = {https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/opac_detail_md/?lang=0&amode=MD100000&bibid=7395700

https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/opac_download_md/7395700/2025_p1450.pdf},

doi = {/10.5109/7395700},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-10-30},

urldate = {2025-10-30},

journal = {Kyushu University Institutional Repository},

issue = {11},

pages = {450-145},

school = {Kyushu University},

abstract = {The construction industry is considered one of the significant industries behind the economic success of most developed and developing countries. Its detrimental effects on the environment and society raise concerns among global leaders and environmental groups, leading to the birth of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in 2015. Project managers play a crucial role in the success of any construction project. They must possess technical and soft skills to handle evolving needs, financial limitations, and diverse teams with various cultural backgrounds. However, soft skills are often overlooked and have only recently gained interest in global research. Hence, the main objective of this study is to identify the essential soft skills of project managers and uncover their connections with attaining the SDGs using the published articles in the Scopus database. The bibliometric review was performed on a corpus of 403 articles through CorText Manager to identify the prominent journals, visualize their relationship with the top keywords, and analyze the co-occurrence and evolution among the keywords based on the string search keyword used. A comprehensive review of these articles found that the essential soft skills of project managers are Leadership, Communication, Stakeholder Management, and Conflict Resolution. Also, the reviewed papers were most aligned with attaining SDGs 9, 11, and 12. Likewise, most of these studies used the PLS-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Future research should continue to explore the interplay between soft skills and project outcomes, employing diverse methodologies to capture the nuances of interpersonal dynamics in construction management.},

note = {International Exchange and Innovation Conference on Engineering & Science (IEICES)},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {proceedings}

}