HRM & Organizational Behavior in Engineering Firms

Muhammad Kashif ( MS_EM)

Riphah International University
Human resource management and project based organizing:
Fertile ground, missed opportunities and prospects for closer connections

Publisher/Author/Year/Journal
Elsevier

Anne Keegan, Claudia Ringhofer, Martina Huemann

accepted 9 June 2017 /Available online 1 July 2017 / Published 1/2018

International Journal of Project Management 36 (2018) 121–133

Human resource management and project based organizing:
Fertile ground, missed opportunities and prospects for closer connections

Purpose
 explore publishing trends

 analyze twenty years of research in key project management journals

 framework of Wright and Boswell (2002)

 highlight a variety of theoretical as well as methodological resources from the HRM field

 promote cross-fertilization of ideas and approaches between these two fields

 introduce the project as a temporary organization level of analysis

Human resource management and project based organizing:
Fertile ground, missed opportunities and prospects for closer connections

Research Gap/ Significance

Use a framework that we adapted and extended from the work of Wright and Boswell (2002)
to identify categories of HRM research.

Reconsidering the levels of analysis identified in the original framework in light of projects and
their managerial and organizational implications.

supra-project organizational level HRM in the permanent organization.

projects as temporary organizations” and HRM on the project

individual” level focuses on HRM and individual roles. In addition we

differentiate between “multiple” and “single” HRM tasks.
Human resource management and project based organizing:
Fertile ground, missed opportunities and prospects for closer connections

Methodology
Based on a review of the literature linking the domains of HRM and project based
organizing

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Human resource management and project based organizing:
Fertile ground, missed opportunities and prospects for closer connections

Wright and Boswell 2002 Model

Human resource management and project based organizing:
Fertile ground, missed opportunities and prospects for closer connections
Human resource management and project based organizing:
Fertile ground, missed opportunities and prospects for closer connections
Human resource management and project based organizing:
Fertile ground, missed opportunities and prospects for closer connections
Human resource management and project based organizing:
Fertile ground, missed opportunities and prospects for closer connections
Human resource management and project based organizing:
Fertile ground, missed opportunities and prospects for closer connections
Human resource management and project based organizing:
Fertile ground, missed opportunities and prospects for closer connections
Human resource management and project based organizing:
Fertile ground, missed opportunities and prospects for closer connections