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PMI Sponsored Research Surveys
Topic: Organisational Change Management Competencies
Dr Lynn Crawford, Dr Anat Hassner and Alicia Aitken with support from the Project Management Institute, are undertaking research to enhance understanding of the relationship between project management and organizational change by investigating the project, program and change related activities associated with organisational change projects and the extent to which such activities vary relative to the type of project / program, the context and degree of organisational and behavioural change involved. If you are a project or change manager interested in participating in this research please follow the instructions below to complete the survey, as a thank you, you will receive a personalised suggested development report for both your project and change management competence.
To begin
Go to http://www.pmcompetence.net/global/resproj/default.asp
Click on NEW USER REGISTRATION
Enter the following
Unit: Change
Group: PMI
- Register your details
- You will be asked to login using your email address & password
- Complete Survey
Once you have completed the survey you will be able to view a CONFIDENTIAL personalised report with professional development suggestions based on your responses.
- A full user guide is attached to help you navigate through the system.
Thank you for your support. If you have any queries please contact the researchers
Anat Hassner
anat@pmcompetence.net
Alicia Aitken
alicia@pmcompetence.net
Other Faculty Surveys
Topic: Role of Client Project Managers in Offshored Application Development Projects
A research team affiliated with the Liautaud Graduate School of Business, University of Illinois at Chicago – a premier school in the US midwest– with interests and expertise in the areas of offshore outsourcing and IS governance. Through this research study for a doctoral dissertation on -- Role of Client Project Managers in Offshored Application Development Projects, we seek to understand the skills, knowledge and expertise of client project managers that contribute to the success of offshored application development projects.
As a member of the highly-respected PMI community, we invite you to participate in a 15-20 minute survey relating to this study. We seek to obtain responses from IS managers in client firms responsible for a recently completed offshored IS application development project. We assure you that your responses to the questions in the survey will remain confidential.
The data collected from the survey will be analyzed and the results will be documented in an executive report, made available to you at the completion of the study.
We sincerely hope that you will participate in our survey. Your participation will help advance our knowledge about the importance of client project managers' skills and experience in successfully managing offshored IS application development projects.
Contact Information:
Poornima Krishnan
Doctoral Candidate, Information and Decision Sciences,
Liautaud Graduate School of Business
University of Illinois at Chicago
pkrish6@uic.com
Topic: Project managers & innovation?
The impacts of climate change are engaging people and organisations to develop new ways to sustain life and help life thrive in spite of the climate challenges. Project managers are often agents of change that enable organisations to resolve issues and take opportunities. The aim of this survey is to identify the key interests, benefits and challenges faced by program & project managers and to what extent organisations’ culture supports innovation as a path to success.
This survey is part of a research project being conducted by Marc Holt who is completing his Masters of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia.
The questionnaire will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
To complete the survey please go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Emx7JCkCX1LmVVnhLgWehQ_3d_3d
If you would like to contact Marc about this survey, please send an email to 651295X@swin.edu.au.
Thank you for your time and participation.
Topic: Investigation into whether Outsourcing of PMO Functions improves Organizational Performance
This is an invitation to participate in research being conducted by Waffa Karkukly under the supervision of Ralf Mueller, Ph.D. at Umea University, and Christophe Bredillet, Ph.D. at Lille School of Management as part of the fulfillment process of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Strategy and project management.
Abstract
This research investigates whether outsourcing of Project Management Office functions (PMO) contributes to improved organizational performance. The author intends to address the question of whether some or all of PMO functions can be outsourced to improve or enhance the organizations performance and formulate related hypotheses in regards to PMO functions of project delivery, project management development, methods and tools, and project portfolio management and the moderating influence of outsourcing governance and standards.
Objective
The aim is to highlight the outsourcing trends in PMO functions and further investigates whether outsourcing of PMO functions contributes to improving organization's performance. It is important to understand the link between PMO functions today and past, examine current outsourcing trends and its effectiveness on PMO functions, and its benefit to organizational performance.
I am currently seeking organizations, industry volunteers, of those organizations that have outsourced or are seeking to outsource any of their PMO functions. Through interviews and questionnaires, I will be able to continue studying the outsourcing and the PMO phenomena in the aspiration of bringing the practitioners and the academia's new lights on outsourcing PMO functions that would help enrich the industry and fellow researchers equally.
If you would like to participate in this research, please click on the survey in the Topic line. The questionnaire survey should take approximately 25 minutes to complete, and it is important that each question be answered as honestly as possible for the research to be of significant value.
Topic: Can the Department of Defense new product development process be improved by applying partnership concepts?
Improving the Performance of the Department of Defense new product development process through partnership concepts. A Doctoral Candidate at University of Maryland, University College, is investigating the potential for improving the performance of the Department of Defense (DOD) new product development process by using partnership concepts. A central aspect of this research is determining the relationship between the management success of DOD new product development programs, and the nature of the relationships and interfaces the DOD has with its contracted commercial partners. From a better understanding of this relationship, the researcher may be able to recommend general and specific methods for improving program management performance. Participants should meet the following criteria:
• Actively worked as a government or commercial project/program manager in a DOD new product development program, supervised someone who has, or functioned as a primary stakeholder.
• Have at least 5 years of experience in DOD programs as a government or commercial project/program manager, supervisor, or primary stakeholder, and or experience in 2 different programs.
Student Surveys
Topic: Feedback and Coaching in Project Management Teams
Sewon Kim, Texas A&M University researcher and Human Resource/Organization Development doctoral student, would like to invite you to participate in a cutting edge research on "Feedback and Coaching in Project Management Teams.”
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships within project management teams. Particularly, this study examines how feedback and coaching behaviors influence project management team members, in terms of role clarity, performance, and work related commitment. Ultimately, we will learn how project management team members become better project managers. Additional information regarding this study is available at http://people.cehd.tamu.edu/~skim/information_pmi.pdf
The survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete. Your participation in this research is confidential, anonymous and voluntary. The information derived from the survey will help project managers gain valuable insights which could inform future efforts for successful career and managerial leadership development in the project management team context.
To participate in this short survey, please click the topic and/or the below link for the online survey link. http://tamucehd.qualtrics.com//SE?SID=SV_bpTVtia91QdksQI&SVID=Prod
Topic: Intertype Relations in a Project Team
Would you be willing to participate in the survey about the role of personality in a project team? Nataliya Kuzhylina, a graduate student of New York University is conducting survey as a part of the research thesis “Discovering Intertype Relations in a Project Team”. The study is interested to find out the correlation between personality type and how different personality types influence each other while working together in a project team. Participants must be willing to answer an online questionnaire which consists of two parts: the first part of the questionnaire measures your personality type, and the second part reveals your communication choices. It will take approximately 20 minutes to complete the survey.
If you are interested in participating in the survey, upon completion of the research you will receive a summary report and a brief profile of your personality type.
If you are interested and willing to volunteer, but have questions please contact Nataliya Kuzhylina either by phone or email address listed below, otherwise you can access the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=OWlLnklfDAoWRwu0L2XHkQ_3d_3d. Thank you for your consideration of this request.
Nataliya Kuzhylina
212 431 6751
nvk214@nyu.edu
Topic: Managing Troubled Project Teams
This survey is part of a research program conducted by the Kenan Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Our goals are to (a) identify the organizational and individual drivers behind the management of troubled project teams and (b) to identify ways that project managers can redirect troubled project teams to achieve success or timely closure. The survey is anonymous and takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.
Topic: How project managers exercise influence over top management members to ensure successful project implementations
A student from HEC Montreal University is investigating how information system (IS) project managers exercise influence over other organizational members to ensure successful project implementations. Often in the IS implementation process, project managers have to interact with top management to secure their active support for the project (in terms of resource provision, change management or vision sharing). Unfortunately, most project managers do not have the authority or the status (due to the nature, importance, or visibility of their project) to obtain the support they need. Thus, IS project managers are forced to rely much more on their ability to cultivate and effectively use influence to persuade superiors to follow up on their requests. The findings of this study will provide IS project managers with certain benchmarks on how to approach senior managers to secure the top management support required for successful project implementations. This survey takes 10 minutes to fill.
To participate in this survey, you must meet this criterion:
You are now or have in the past acted as project manager for the development or the implementation of a new information system (e.g., an intranet site, an ERP module) in your organization.
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