Effective staffing of projects for reconciling conflict between cost efficiency and quality

Choi, Yunsik; Delise, Lisa A.; Lee, Brandon W.; Neely, Jerry

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108049

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“…Recognizing who is a team member is critical as being familiar with each other is a key variable able to mitigate the performance detriments of team members who are spread too thin across multiple teams. Indeed, Choi et al (2021) demonstrated that team member familiarity can mitigate the trade-off multiteamers often have to make between cost-efficiency and the quality of work -knowing each other well enables members to rely on each other's strengths and weaknesses. Colicev et al (2023) demonstrated that while performance declines for all employees who are assigned to many teams, employee familiarity allows team members to exhibit higher performance at such high levels of MTM number.…”

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“…For individual employees, MTM number has been reported to relate negatively (van de Brake et al., 2018 considering short‐term impact; Zika‐Viktorsson et al., 2006), positively (Li et al., 2020; van de Brake et al., 2020b; van de Brake et al., 2018 considering long‐term impact), curvilinearly (Chan, 2014; Colicev et al., 2023), and not (Rapp & Mathieu, 2019; van de Brake et al., 2020a) to effectiveness. Similarly, team‐level studies report a mix of positive (MTM number: Chan, 2014; Cummings & Haas, 2012; percentage of time: Cummings & Haas, 2012), negative (MTM number: Choi et al., 2021), curvilinear (MTM number: Bertolotti et al., 2015), and no relationships (MTM number: Carton & Cummings, 2013; Mortensen, 2014; van de Brake & Berger, 2023; percentage of time: Maynard et al., 2012; Mortensen, 2014; van de Brake & Berger, 2023). Finally, the few studies on MTM's effect on firm effectiveness show either a negative (Crawford et al., 2019) or curvilinear (Berger et al., 2022) relationship.…”

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Navigating multiple team membership: A review and redirection of its influence on effectiveness outcomes

Rishani,

Schouten,

Hoever

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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In today's organizations, employees commonly work in more than one team at a time. As this practice of multiple team membership (MTM) has become a reality of daily work, researchers across disciplines have dedicated their efforts to study its influence on valued outcomes such as employee and team effectiveness. We review the MTM literature to provide an overview of the relationship between multiteaming and effectiveness and to discuss the underlying reasons that explain why this relationship is complex and findings remain inconsistent. Drawing from teams research, we particularly highlight three sources of variance in the effects of multiteaming that have not been discussed in an integrative manner: (a) what is being studied – the aspects and nature of multiteaming; (b) how multiteaming is thought to affect effectiveness – the processes through which multiteaming transforms into (in)effectiveness; and (c) who are the multiteamers – the characteristics of multiteamers. Our review thus offers a more fine‐grained theoretical understanding of multiteaming's influence on effectiveness and uncovers exciting future research directions.

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Navigating multiple team membership: A review and redirection of its influence on effectiveness outcomes

Rishani,

Schouten,

Hoever

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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“…The worldwide popularity and acceptance of the "iron triangle" [24], identifying time, quality, and costs as the three key criteria to measure success in project and construction management, gives credence to the critical and potentially leading role cost estimation plays in construction. Cost is considered the most critical measure of performance [25] from a stakeholder's perspective and is used as a measure of efficiency [26]. Yet, a commonality in construction projects is a shortfall in cost performance, the leading cause of cost overruns.…”

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Rationalizing Critical Cost Overrun Factors on Public Sector Housing Programmes

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The cost overrun phenomenon on projects worldwide creates a major source of risk that warrants investigation. The prevailing factor school of thought provides strong empirical evidence that critical factors contributing to cost overruns are both context-specific and project-specific. Although many studies have been conducted identifying factors and causes of cost overruns, very few studies have investigated root causes. Additionally, a limited body of knowledge is available within the context of Small Island Development States (SIDS). To fill this gap, the objectives of this study were to identify and determine the main critical factors contributing to the cost overrun phenomenon in public sector social housing programmes (PSSHPs). These selected factors were thereafter categorized under leading root causes, and their severity was determined based on primary stakeholders’ perspectives. One hundred and twenty-three factors were identified from the literature, of which forty-one critical factors were extracted and grouped under four root causes based on a pilot survey of relevant public sector housing experts in the Trinidadian and Jamaican construction sectors. These refined factors and root causes were formulated into a questionnaire survey. One hundred and five responses were obtained from professionals who had a minimum of five years’ experience in various phases of public housing delivery. The severity of these critical factors was evaluated, ranked, and categorized using the relative importance index (RII) approach. The findings uncovered the leading root cause, which is political in nature. The top five critical factors are the selection of politically aligned contractors, the intentional design of inadequate contracts, the project actors' deliberately underestimating costs, the partisan project management team, and strategic misrepresentation. These findings are unique to SIDS and contribute to knowledge to reframe contemporary project management practices, which focus mainly on technical causes. Finally, as existing technical solutions are ineffective in curbing cost overruns in PSSHPs, these findings also inform public sector policymakers to focus on prioritization, control, and mitigation of political risks in formulating effective governance mechanisms. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2022-06-03-016 Full Text: PDF

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“…Choi et al (2021) compared staffing policies in a cost-efficiency–quality trade-off problem. Choi et al (2021) proposed countervailing hypotheses and empirically examine to compare the influence of team familiarity and multi-teaming on trade-off between cost-efficiency-quality problems. Results provided practical suggestions for an effective staff management.…”

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A new interval-valued fuzzy multi-objective approach for project time–cost–quality trade-off problem with activity crashing and overlapping under uncertainty

Mahdavi-Roshan

Mousavi²

2022

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PurposeMost projects are facing delays, and accelerating the pace of project progress is a necessity. Project managers are responsible for completing the project on time with minimum cost and with maximum quality. This study provides a trade-off between time, cost, and quality objectives to optimize project scheduling.Design/methodology/approachThe current paper presents a new resource-constrained multi-mode time–cost–quality trade-off project scheduling model with lags under finish-to-start relations. To be more realistic, crashing and overlapping techniques are utilized. To handle uncertainty, which is a source of project complexity, interval-valued fuzzy sets are adopted on several parameters. In addition, a new hybrid solution approach is developed to cope with interval-valued fuzzy mathematical model that is based on different alpha-levels and compensatory methods. To find the compatible solution among conflicting objectives, an arithmetical average method is provided as a compensatory approach.FindingsThe interval-valued fuzzy sets approach proposed in this paper is denoted to be scalable, efficient, generalizable and practical in project environments. The results demonstrated that the crashing and overlapping techniques improve time–cost–quality trade-off project scheduling model. Also, interval-valued fuzzy sets can properly manage expressions of the uncertainty of projects which are realistic and practical. The proposed mathematical model is validated by solving a medium-sized dataset an adopted case study. In addition, with a sensitivity analysis approach, the solutions are compared and the model performance is confirmed.Originality/valueThis paper introduces a new continuous-based, resource-constrained, and multi-mode model with crashing and overlapping techniques simultaneously. In addition, a new hybrid compensatory solution approach is extended based on different alpha-levels to handle interval-valued fuzzy multi-objective mathematical model of project scheduling with influential uncertain parameters.

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Effective staffing of projects for reconciling conflict between cost efficiency and quality

Cited by 5 publications

References 84 publications

Navigating multiple team membership: A review and redirection of its influence on effectiveness outcomes

Navigating multiple team membership: A review and redirection of its influence on effectiveness outcomes

Rationalizing Critical Cost Overrun Factors on Public Sector Housing Programmes

A new interval-valued fuzzy multi-objective approach for project time–cost–quality trade-off problem with activity crashing and overlapping under uncertainty

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