Multilevel social dynamics considerations for project management decision makers: Antecedents and implications of group member tie development

摘要

To examine how certain individual attributes viewed as important to the project contexts may lead to social networking decisions.The objective of this research is to examine the criticality of social dynamics on project team interaction and associated management decisions. In addition to the other well known factors, social dimensions also influence the success of a project. The dynamics of group work: namely, control, confidence, and conscientiousness within project teams, is introduced in this study. The performance of the implicitly social unit of the team as a whole remains the primary factor for organizational assessment. Both individual and group dynamics are considered for examination in this study. A four-month controlled experiment was carried out in all stages of the project. The article studies individual group members in these projects, their decisions to interact with each other, and subsequent project performance. Analysis of the data provided insights into the decisions made both by project team members as well others who influence the outcome of the project. Project managers should facilitate positive interaction coupled with actions to manage trust and relationships. The study suggests that project managers deciding how to staff their teams and what to do when interaction declines that too when teams become more self-managing by initiating and maintaining their own interactions.