دانلود رایگان مقاله مسیرهای توسعه مدیران پروژه: چطور و چگونه مدیران پروژه از تجربیاتشان یاد می گیرند؟

Abstract

The development paths of project managers are paved with formal and informal learning experiences. Knowledge of the learning experiences that project managers indicate as important for their development as professionals is limited in both the academic and the practitioner world. In the current study we explore what and how project managers learn from experiences, and what is perceived as supporting this learning. We used a multi-method approach, consisting of in-depth interviews and a short follow-up survey among 31 project managers. Results show that most learning experiences occur more or less accidentally on the job and support for learning from these experiences is limited. This suggests potential to improve the quality and pace of the development paths of project managers. Limitations of the current study, and implications of these findings for theory and practice are discussed opening up avenues for future research.

5. Discussion

In this research we aimed to explore the development paths of project managers. We sought for descriptions of these development paths by focusing on lived learning experiences of project managers, rather than look for explanations or test assumptions that might exist. In so doing, we aimed to increase the validity of the insights into what they learned and how they learned it, and make them more illustrative and translatable to other contexts. The reasons for using descriptions were to seek two outcomes. First, based on these descriptions, we aimed to come up with suggestions for future research and trigger curiosity for the development of project managers in both the practitioners and the academic world. Second, we aimed to provide suggestions for project managers themselves, their line managers and HR managers when seeking to facilitate their development.