Celebrating the power of projects and their management

Huemann, Martina

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2022.02.001

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“…At the same time, they foster a deep sense of meaning for the professionals involved. This need for purpose aligns with the creation power of projects (Huemann, 2022;Huemann & Silvius, 2017;Kier et al, 2023), the concept of projectivity (Winch et al, 2023), and the transformative role of projects (Whyte & Mottee, 2022).…”

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Motivation of Young Project Professionals: Their Needs for Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Purpose

Lechler,

Huemann

2023

Project Management Journal

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Most of our workforce consists of members of Generation Y, making it necessary to understand their motivations to work on projects. In this article we investigate the motivation of young project professionals in the context of four case studies. Based on self-determination theory, we outline the Conceptual Model of Young Project Professional Motivation, which is comprised of autonomy, competence, relatedness, and purpose. The study offers several contributions to theory and practice. First, the article extends the understanding to self-determination theory by operationalizing the different needs of young project professionals in projects. Second, it explicitly adds the need for purpose as a central motivator to our theoretical understanding. Third, it puts the motivators in contexts and shows that these motivators have varying levels of importance in different project and organizational contexts. From a practice perspective, the study contributes to a better understanding of how to attract and retain young project professionals in organizations, for example, by fostering work environments and career opportunities that are aligned with their needs. We conclude this article with a research agenda.

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Section: Theoretical and Practical Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Motivation of Young Project Professionals: Their Needs for Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Purpose

Lechler,

Huemann

2023

Project Management Journal

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“…Many projects deliver change and create the future (Huemann, 2022; Huemann & Silvius, 2017). For example, without projects, it would be impossible to tackle grand challenges such as pandemics, climate change or poverty (Ika & Munro, 2022).…”

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A Manifesto for project management research

Locatelli

Ika

Drouin

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European Management Review

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Project management research has evolved over the past five decades and is now a mature disciplinary field investigating phenomena of interest to academics, practitioners and policymakers. Studies of projects and project management practices are theoretically rich and scientifically rigorous. They are practically relevant and impactful when addressing the pursuit of operational, tactical and strategic advancements in the world of organisations. We want to broaden the conversation between project management scholars and other scholars from cognate disciplines, particularly business and management, in a true scholarship of integration and cross-fertilisation. This Manifesto invites the latter scholars to join efforts providing a foundation for further creative, theoretical and empirical contributions, including but not limited to tackling grand challenges such as climate change, pandemics, and global poverty. To this end, we identify five theses: 1. Projects are often 'agents of change' and hence fundamental to driving the innovation and change required to tackle grand challenges. 2. Much project management research leverages and challenges theories across disciplines, including business, organisation and management studies, contributing to developing new theories, including those specific to projects and temporary organisations. 3. 'Projects' are useful units of analysis, project management research is ideal for scientific cross-fertilisation and project management scholars welcome academics from other communities to engage in fruitful conversations. 4. As in many other fields of knowledge, the project management research community embraces diversity, welcoming researchers of different genders and various scientific and social backgrounds. 5. Historically rooted in 'problem-solving' and normative studies, project management research has become open to interpretative and emancipatory research, providing opportunities for other business, management and organisational scholars to advance their knowledge communities.project management, temporary organization, organizational change WHY WE NEED THIS MANIFESTOThe projectification of society and the need to tackle grand challengesWe live in a 'project society' where projects shape people, organisations and society (Lundin et al., 2015), a phenomenon that was dubbed 'projectification' in a business context about 30 years ago (Midler, 1995). In this 'project economy', projects (which drive change and innovation) and operations (which make organisations run daily) compete and collaborate as leading economic agents (Nieto-Rodriguez, 2021). This goes beyond the mere focus on single organisations since coalitions are

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“…También se han realizado propuestas y guías de auditoría de proyectos en sectores específicos o con metodologías específicas como pueden ser: auditorías en proyectos de software (McDonald, 2002), metodologías ágiles (Mkoba & Marnewick, 2020), metodologías clásicas (Alghail, Yao, Abbas, & Baashar, 2022;Martina Huemann, 2004;Reusch, Sep 2011) o incluso promovidas por las propias asociaciones que certifican en dirección de proyectos (APM, 2018). Existe una norma ISO 22500 para dirección de proyectos (International Organization for Standardization, 2016) que se basa en la 6ª…”

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“…De esta manera se puede tener una referencia en la auditoría de empresas en cuanto a su capacidad para dirigir proyectos sin que sea necesario tener siempre como referencia una norma, sino que se mantienen constantes las áreas de estudio de la auditoría, pudiendo modificar los elementos específicos de cada metodología (procesos, herramientas, jerga, etc.). Esto puede ser útil tanto para auditores internos como externos ya que cada una de esas áreas puede de ser valorada por niveles (Martina Huemann, 2004) y ser comparada con otras empresas del sector o con los avances internos si se realiza una auditoría interna de cara a la mejora de las capacidades en dirección de proyectos. A modo de ejemplo, se podría analizar cada uno de los factores de éxito de manera independiente y tener un resultado conjunto de la auditoría (Ilustración 51).…”

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Diseño de un marco común entre metodologías de dirección de proyectos aplicado a proyectos de innovación en sectores tecnológicos e industriales

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Celebrating the power of projects and their management

Cited by 12 publications

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Motivation of Young Project Professionals: Their Needs for Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Purpose

Motivation of Young Project Professionals: Their Needs for Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Purpose

A Manifesto for project management research

Diseño de un marco común entre metodologías de dirección de proyectos aplicado a proyectos de innovación en sectores tecnológicos e industriales

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