The long way to professional recognition: project management in Italy

Sabini, Luca; Muzio, Daniel

doi:10.1108/ijmpb-02-2017-0011

“…These are primarily planning, communication, interpersonal, and technical, and problem-solving abilities of IMs (Siriwaiprapan, 2000; Millikin et al , 2010; Turner and Crawford, 1994; IPMA, 2002; Project Management Institute, 2007; APM, 2008; Beliveau and Peter, 2002a, b). Professional competencies require IMs to possess an understanding of project environments and exercise decisions to solve any nature of problems in infrastructure projects (Sabini and Muzio, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Developing generic competencies for infrastructure managers in India

Shah

¹

,

Prakash

²

2018

IJMPB

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for generic competencies based on lifecycle orientation of projects to support infrastructure managers (IMs) in India. Design/methodology/approach This study has reviewed literature on competency theories and their advancement of knowledge in management, construction and engineering projects. This study has applied exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to structure generic competencies founded on infrastructure practices in India. Further this study has applied confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to test for confirmation on emerged dimensionality of the competence construct for IMs in India. Findings Using data collected from 175 usable questionnaires of managers serving in infrastructure firms in India for EFA followed by CFA, six generic competencies have been established in the domains of strategic, analytical, personal, managerial, professional and leadership dimensions significantly impacting competent performance. Research limitations/implications This study has applied plausibility sampling and it presents only generic competencies for executives working in the infrastructure sector alone. Practical implications Due to the growth in number of executives to be employed in infrastructure firms in India, academic institutions in this subcontinent have gained momentum in offering programmes covering the field of infrastructure management. These institutions are believed to be covering domains of strategic, analytical, personal, managerial, professional and leadership dimensions for assuring competent performance of IMs in India. Social implications Attention to these generic competencies can help IMs to contribute towards better performance, academic institutions to design curriculum, recruiters to acquire talent and executives to advance professionally. Originality/value Extant academic studies relating to generic competencies are available mostly in project and construction domains. There is a paucity of such academic studies in the domain of infrastructure.

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“…In our model (see Fig. 3), engagement with employers and service users, is a means to de ning professional remit (19). A de nition of functions constituting the occupational role of the CS is postulated through dynamic interaction in the work context.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enabling Visibility of the Clinician-scientists’ Knowledge Broker role in Linking Research with Clinical Practice: A Participatory Design Research in the Dutch Nursing-home Sector

Barry¹,

Kuijer²,

Persoon³

et al. 2020

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Background: Twelve clinician-scientists were employed in a Dutch academic network, which is a collaboration between fifteen nursing-homes and an academic medical research institute. The clinician-scientists were tasked with linking research and clinical practice by catalysing both care-informed research and evidence-informed implementation initiatives. The clinician-scientists and their manager experienced difficulties in clearly defining the knowledge broker role of the clinician-scientists, a difficulty also reported in literature. They found no tools and methods suitable for make their knowledge broker role visible. Clarifying role expectations and accountability for funding these knowledge broker positions was difficult. They aimed to design a theory-informed performance appraisal tool that allowed clinician-scientists to explicate and develop their knowledge broker role in collaboration with management.Methods: A participatory design research was conducted over a 21 month period with a design group consisting of an external independent researcher, clinician-scientists and their managers from within the academic network. Results: A tool (the SP-tool) was developed in MS Excel. This allowed clinician-scientists to log their knowledge broker activities as distinct from their clinical work and research related activities. The tool contributed to their ability to make their knowledge broker role visible to themselves and their stakeholders. The theoretic contribution of the design research is a conceptual model of professionalisation of the clinician scientists knowledge broker role. This model presents the relationship between work visibility and the clarification of functions of the clinician-scientist’s knowledge broker role. In the professionalisation of knowledge-intensive work, visibility contributes to the definition of CS broker functions, which is an element necessary for the professionalisation of an occupation.Conclusions: The CSs knowledge broker role is a knowledge-intensive role and work-tasks associated with this role are not automatically visible. The SP-tool contributes to creating work visibility of the clinician-scientists’ knowledge broker role. This in turn could contribute to the professionalisation of this role, which is not well described in literature at the day-to-day professional level.

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“…A core element of professionalism is the existence of clearly de ned work functions (20) and a shared understanding of these functions between the professional and the service-user. In our model (see gure 3), engagement with employers and service users, is a means to de ning professional remit (19). A de nition of functions constituting the occupational role of the CS is postulated through dynamic interaction in the work context.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Strategic construction of work visibility based on active engagement in an organisation, contributes to the professionalisation of knowledge-intensive occupations (19). This dynamic form of professionalisation stands in contrast to that of traditional healthcare professions, in which professionals are socialised to work according to a clearly de ned and visible scope of practice.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enabling visibility of the clinician-scientists’ knowledge broker role in linking research with clinical practice: A participatory design research in the Dutch nursing-home sector

Barry

¹

,

Kuijer

²

,

Persoon³

et al. 2020

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0

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Background: Twelve clinician-scientists were employed in a Dutch academic network, which is a collaboration between fifteen nursing-homes and an academic medical research institute. The clinician-scientists were tasked with linking research and clinical practice by catalysing both care-informed research and evidence-informed implementation initiatives. The clinician-scientists and their manager experienced difficulties in clearly defining the knowledge broker role of the clinician-scientists, a difficulty also reported in literature. They found no tools and methods suitable for make their knowledge broker role visible. Clarifying role expectations and accountability for funding these knowledge broker positions was difficult. They aimed to design a theory-informed performance appraisal tool that allowed clinician-scientists to explicate and develop their knowledge broker role in collaboration with management.Methods: A participatory design research was conducted over a 21 month period with a design group consisting of an external independent researcher, clinician-scientists and their managers from within the academic network. Results: A tool (the SP-tool) was developed in MS Excel. This allowed clinician-scientists to log their knowledge broker activities as distinct from their clinical work and research related activities. The tool contributed to their ability to make their knowledge broker role visible to themselves and their stakeholders. The theoretic contribution of the design research is a conceptual model of professionalisation of the clinician scientists knowledge broker role. This model presents the relationship between work visibility and the clarification of functions of the clinician-scientist’s knowledge broker role. In the professionalisation of knowledge-intensive work, visibility contributes to the definition of CS broker functions, which is an element necessary for the professionalisation of an occupation.Conclusions: The CSs knowledge broker role is a knowledge-intensive role and work-tasks associated with this role are not automatically visible. The SP-tool contributes to creating work visibility of the clinician-scientists’ knowledge broker role. This in turn could contribute to the professionalisation of this role, which is not well described in literature at the day-to-day professional level.

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The long way to professional recognition: project management in Italy

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Developing generic competencies for infrastructure managers in India

Developing generic competencies for infrastructure managers in India

Enabling Visibility of the Clinician-scientists’ Knowledge Broker role in Linking Research with Clinical Practice: A Participatory Design Research in the Dutch Nursing-home Sector

Enabling visibility of the clinician-scientists’ knowledge broker role in linking research with clinical practice: A participatory design research in the Dutch nursing-home sector

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