Project management artefacts and the emotions they evoke
International Journal of Managing Projects in Business
ISSN: 1753-8378
Article publication date: 26 January 2010
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the variety of affective emotions that are evoked in extant project management (PM) practitioners by various PM artefacts.
Design/methodology/approach
A phenomenological methodology is used for eliciting, through self‐reporting and observation of gesture, the affective responses and consequential emotions experienced by PM practitioners as they interact or recount previous interactions with various artefacts of PM.
Findings
This paper suggests that PM is prevalent in the Western corporate environment because project managers obtain an emotional affect from aspects of the PM experience, and project managers utilise various PM artefacts to emotionally manipulate their environment to their own advantage.
Practical implications
The paper argues for a PM environment which is founded on evidence‐based practices. It suggests that future research should explore the links between PM, social architecture and flow theory.
Originality/value
This paper advances the evolutionary framework for PM research.
Keywords
Citation
Jonathan Whitty, S. (2010), "Project management artefacts and the emotions they evoke", International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 22-45. https://doi.org/10.1108/17538371011014017
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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