TY - GEN
T1 - Placing project partakers' emotions, attitudes and norms in the context of project vision, artifacts, leader values, contextual performance and success
AU - Aronson, Zvi H.
AU - Shenhar, Aaron J.
AU - Reilly, Richard R.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The authors propose a model suggesting that project leader building activities which support instilling a project vision, artifacts and are guided by this individual's values, affect partakers' emotions, attitudes and behavioral norms that are focused on expected project outcomes, termed project spirit. Furthermore, spirit is proposed to affect partakers' contextual performance and, through contextual performance, to affect project success. The proposed mediational model is supported with empirical results from 200 partakers in 63 projects sampled across a variety of organizations. Project leader building activities affected partakers' spirit, and contextual performance mediated this relationship with project success. Our empirical findings suggest that leaders can be trained to execute behaviors that generate a project's spirit, which in turn boosts contextual performance and enhances project outcomes.
AB - The authors propose a model suggesting that project leader building activities which support instilling a project vision, artifacts and are guided by this individual's values, affect partakers' emotions, attitudes and behavioral norms that are focused on expected project outcomes, termed project spirit. Furthermore, spirit is proposed to affect partakers' contextual performance and, through contextual performance, to affect project success. The proposed mediational model is supported with empirical results from 200 partakers in 63 projects sampled across a variety of organizations. Project leader building activities affected partakers' spirit, and contextual performance mediated this relationship with project success. Our empirical findings suggest that leaders can be trained to execute behaviors that generate a project's spirit, which in turn boosts contextual performance and enhances project outcomes.
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U2 - 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599743
DO - 10.1109/PICMET.2008.4599743
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52449122119
SN - 1890843172
SN - 9781890843175
T3 - PICMET: Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, Proceedings
SP - 1315
EP - 1323
BT - PICMET '08 - 2008 Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, Proceedings Technology Management for a Sustainable Economy
T2 - 2008 Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, Technology Management for a Sustainable Economy, PICMET '08
Y2 - 27 July 2008 through 31 July 2008
ER -