Exploring the value of project management certification in selection and recruiting

Farashah, Ali Dehghanpour; Thomas, Janice

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2018.09.005

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“…The 21st century brings evidence that the number of individuals engaged in engineer‐C work may be growing rapidly; for instance, the United States saw its largest project management professional association's (the Project Management Institute's) membership quadruple between 1999 and 2005 (DiVincenzo, 2006) while more recent reports cite a sustainment of similar growth trends globally (Farashah et al, 2019). Engineering educators face a choice of whether to better track the numbers of engineering graduates undertaking these types of roles and, consequently, to decide whether engineering education should address student preparedness for such roles.…”

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Characterizing engineering work in a changing world: Synthesis of a typology for engineering students' occupational outcomes

Magarian

Seering

2021

J of Engineering Edu

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Background: Engineering education research frequently examines students' persistence (or intentions to persist) into engineering careers from engineering school. However, the variety of engineering-related occupations has increased substantially in recent years, challenging researchers' abilities to discern what constitutes persistence in engineering.Purpose: This article investigates the question: How can researchers categorize students' occupational outcomes in terms of engineering relatedness in a manner that enables consistency across future studies and that is informed by enduring conceptions of engineering work? We develop an occupational outcomes typology in response to this question.Scope/Method: We employed systematic literature reviews to substantiate the typology. In total, we reviewed 259 sources published between 1966 and 2016.Review 1 examined sources discussing or debating the presence of unifying occupational attributes across engineering practice. Review 2 examined sources discussing common job functions constituting unifying criteria identified in Review 1. Review 3 examined sources discussing specific work activities associated with functions identified in Review 2. Finally, Review 4 examined job profile data from the year 2017 on 1100 job titles to identify contemporary nonengineering-titled jobs involving activities similar to activities found in Review 3.Conclusions: Engineering practitioners' possession of design responsibilitytheir responsibility for products' efficacy and safety through governance of designs (new or existing)-has served as a unifying work attribute over time.We find that the 21st century has given rise to interrelated roles encompassing and surrounding conventional engineering work and propose a typology that categorizes occupations in relation to engineering. The typology offers a responsibility-based framing of engineering that helps educators illustrate key distinctions among contemporary engineering-related occupations.

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Characterizing engineering work in a changing world: Synthesis of a typology for engineering students' occupational outcomes

Magarian

Seering

2021

J of Engineering Edu

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“…Given the long-standing research on selection issues in the context of projects, it is surprising that little attention has been paid to organizational selection at the IOP or project network level. As our literature review and conceptual reasoning show, the main points of inquiry have been the individual and team levels (Farashah et al, 2019; Hsu et al, 2016) and, to a lesser extent, organizational partners for dyadic cooperation (Pesämaa et al, 2009) or projects as part of project portfolio management (Artto et al, 2009). In contrast, the selection of organizations—specifically for IOPs or project networks—can, with few exceptions (e.g., Schüßler et al, 2012), only build on the knowledge generated from research on strategic alliances and networks (Das & Teng, 1996; Mitsuhashi, 2002; Ritter & Gemünden, 2003).…”

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“…Selection has been a long-standing topic in project management research. Various selection processes occur on different levels, starting with selection of the individual project manager and team members (Farashah, Thomas, & Blomquist, 2019; Hadad, Keren, & Laslo, 2013), project team composition (Hsu, Weng, Cui, & Rand, 2016; Mikkelsen & Folmann, 1983), external organizations as project partners (Kadefors, Björlingson, & Karlsson, 2007; Pesämaa, Eriksson, & Hair, 2009), and the projects themselves in the context of multiproject management (for a review, see Artto, Martinsuo, Gemünden, & Murtoaro, 2009). Thus far, little attention has been paid to specific facets in the selection of organizations for working together in interorganizational projects (e.g., Ligthart, Oerlemans, & Noorderhaven, 2016) or interfirm projects (von Danwitz, 2018), in interorganizational project networks (DeFillippi & Sydow, 2016; Oliveira & Lumineau, 2017) or project network organizations (Manning, 2017).…”

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Selecting Organizational Partners for Interorganizational Projects: The Dual but Limited Role of Digital Capabilities in the Construction Industry

Braun

Sydow

2019

Project Management Journal

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The selection of partners is critical for the success of interorganizational projects. Based on conceptual reasoning in light of prior research, as well as illustrative empirical insights into an ongoing interorganizational project in the construction industry, we argue that partner selection practices not only target the organizational capabilities of potential partners but they themselves require an organizational capability to search for, evaluate, and select. This article delineates the facets of this capability, reveals the role of digital capabilities therein, and shows that the respective capabilities are crucial for inclusion and exclusion in interorganizational projects. The results also point to capabilities that emerge at the interorganizational nexus.

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“…The project management has been moving towards professionalisation through certification. Today, there are more than one million certified project managers worldwide (number complied from statistics provided at PMI.org and IPMA.world sites) [8].…”

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Developing students' competences in project management in Poland – a case study of IPMA-Student Certification

Rzempała¹

2019

Proceedings of the 5th IPMA SENET Project Management Conference (SENET 2019)

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This article presents experiences and early conclusions from the Polish certification dedicated to students in the field of project management. First of all, it describes the IPMA -Student Competence Model. Secondly, it presents the results of student certification, the level of competence in particular areas and the increase of interest in certification in particular years. Finally, it formulates some preliminary conclusions and recommendations for further improvement of PM education. The research sample includes students from 10 Polish universities participating in the IPMA -Student Programme.

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Exploring the value of project management certification in selection and recruiting

Cited by 53 publications

References 73 publications

Characterizing engineering work in a changing world: Synthesis of a typology for engineering students' occupational outcomes

Characterizing engineering work in a changing world: Synthesis of a typology for engineering students' occupational outcomes

Selecting Organizational Partners for Interorganizational Projects: The Dual but Limited Role of Digital Capabilities in the Construction Industry

Developing students' competences in project management in Poland – a case study of IPMA-Student Certification

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