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Project Management Journal
Bridging the Fields of Careers and Project Management
Projects have become one of the most common ways of organizing work in organizations (Bakker, 2010| Bakker et al., 2016). They are the major means by which organizations structure and deliver both…
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Project Management Journal
Rolling into the Profession
The number of people who, at a certain point during their career, assume responsibilities as a project manager is increasing every year. Yet, we know little about the reasons why people want to…
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The Impact of Executive Coaching on Project Managers' Personal Competencies
Personal competencies have been shown to be increasingly reliable predictors of successful project managers. This research studies whether executive coaching is effective in strengthening personal…
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How Coaching Is Used and Understood by Project Managers in Organizations
Coaching can play an important part in meeting the challenges of project management (Berg & Karlsen, 2007). However, there remains a lack of research into project managers' perceptions of coaching…
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An exploratory study of gender in project management
In decades past, project management was primarily a male-dominated discipline. But over the past decade, women have increasingly gained prominence--as practitioners, scholars, and teachers--and are…
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Project Management Journal
Demystifying the folklore of the accidental project manager in the public sector
To improve its operations, public sector organizations are increasingly implementing projects as a way to realize objectives and adopting project management as an way to improve their efficiency in…
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Shikumidukuri vs. one best (no) way!
To push the field forward, project management researchers must find a balance between the practitioner's need for application-oriented technical case studies examining how to apply practices against…
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Project Management Journal
What does the growth in project management training organizations mean for our profession ?
Since 1990, an increasing number of organizations have engaged in corporate project management training. While this growth indicates greater recognition of project management as a separate…
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Employment discrimination
Evidence shows that despite strides toward employment equality, discrimination exists in the world of project management. The definition of employment discrimination has been outlined in Title VII…
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The PMP® and the PMBOK®
What is the difference between passing the Certification Exam and becoming a Project Management Professional (PMP)®? What are the “fair game” sources for questions on the exam? What is supposed to…
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