IT Project Manager Competencies and Team Commitment: A New Scale Proposal

Cintia Cristina Silva de Araújo; Cristiane Drebes Pedron; Filipe Quevedo Pires de Oliveira e Silva

doi:10.5585/gep.v9i1.679

Autores

Cintia Cristina Silva de Araújo Universidade Nove de Julho - UNINOVE
Cristiane Drebes Pedron Universidade Nove de Julho - UNINOVE
Filipe Quevedo Pires de Oliveira e Silva Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5585/gep.v9i1.679

Palavras-chave:

Team Commitment. Organizational Commitment. Project Manager Competencies. Scale Development. Structural Equation Modeling.

Resumo

Project managers are required to develop competencies that will help them to lead their teams in stressful, challenging and dynamic environments such as in many Information Technology (IT) project settings. Project managers should also develop team commitment in order to improve team performance. Therefore, this study addresses the question: Which IT project manager competencies influence team commitment? The main objective is to develop and validate a new instrument to measure project manager competencies and team commitment in IT projects. To accomplish this objective, we, firstly, did an exploratory and qualitative research. Then, we did a quantitative research in which we collected 484 responses. Besides providing a new scale, this research also presents pertinent implications to the practice of project management in IT settings. For instance, organizations can use the measuring instrument to evaluate project managers, to evaluate the work environment as well as to structure training programs for their employees.

Biografia Autor

Cintia Cristina Silva de Araújo, Universidade Nove de Julho - UNINOVE

Doutorado em Administração pela Universidade Nove de Julho. Título de Mestre obtido no programa de Mestrado Profissional em Administração na Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE - São Paulo-SP). Possui graduação em Estudos Religiosos - Vanguard College (Edmonton-Canadá) e graduação em Processamento de Dados pela FATEC-BS (Santos-SP). 20 anos de experiência em TI.

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