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Performance Evaluation Criteria For Project Managers, Nestor Briones Aquino
Performance Evaluation Criteria For Project Managers, Nestor Briones Aquino
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Supervisors of business project managers lack strategies to effectively evaluate the work of project managers, increasing the probability of project failure, and costing organizations billions of dollars in losses each year. Effective evaluation of the work of project managers is essential to avoid project failure. Grounded in Kaplan and Norton’s balanced scorecard theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore strategies supervisors of business project managers use to evaluate the project managers’ work. The participants comprised 3 supervisors of project managers in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States with successful experience in evaluating the …
Strategies Certified Project Management Professionals Use To Prevent Counterproductive Behavior, Lisa Annika Christin Hansson-Vazquez
Strategies Certified Project Management Professionals Use To Prevent Counterproductive Behavior, Lisa Annika Christin Hansson-Vazquez
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Project managers who fail to apply strategies to prevent counterproductive work behavior in information technology projects could negatively affect users, budget costs, timelines, or projects. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies that project managers used to prevent counterproductive work behavior that put project success at risk. Social learning theory was the conceptual framework for this study. Data were collected through document review of published Project Management Institute (PMI) material as well as semistructured interviews with 10 project managers who were members of a PMI chapter in the southeastern United States, and who held a project …