**6. Conclusions and Contributions**

Construction program managers are the core personnel in the management process. They need to respond and handle various events flexibly to promote the success of the program. This paper proposed a multi-attribute manager evaluation and selection model based on grounded theory, regret theory and Fuzzy-DEMATEL methods. During the course of completing this study, the following conclusions and contributions were made:


erences of decision makers. This approach makes up for the shortcomings of past studies, and also helps to improve the accuracy and practicality of the selection model of construction program managers.

#### **7. Future Works**

This paper used fuzzy numbers to construct the construction program manager evaluation and selection model. In the future, the use of other data forms such as interval numbers and incomplete information can be attempted. In addition, hybrid approaches have been used frequently in personnel, supplier, and key factor selection problems in different industries, so combining different methods such as ANP, TOPSIS, MCDM, and MEMATEL can also be attempted in the future.

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, H.Y.; Software, W.H.; Investigation, Y.Y.; Data curation, C.G.; Writing—original draft, X.L. and Q.Y.; Writing—review & editing, H.Y.; Supervision, H.Y. and C.G. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** The present study was supported by the Social Sciences Fund of Hunan Province (22ZDB089, 22JD076) and the National University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project (202111532010).

**Data Availability Statement:** Some or all data, models, or code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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