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CHAPTER 11

MANAGING PROJECT
MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL

AND THEIR COMPETENCIES

IN THE PROJECT-ORIENTED

COMPANY

Martina Huemann
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria

Martina Huemann holds a Ph.D. in project management and a
master’s degree in business administration from the Vienna University
of Economics and Business Administration. She also studied business
administration and economics at the University Lund, Sweden, and
the Economic University Prague, Czech Republic.
Currently she is assistant professor in the Project Management
Group of the Vienna University of Economics and Business
Administration and since 2003 a visiting fellow of the University of
Technology Sydney. She is a board member of Project Management
Austria and the IPMA Research Board and the IIPMA Award Board.
Dr. Huemann is also a trainer and consultant at Roland Gareis
Consulting.
In her research she concentrates on human resources management in
project-oriented organizations, management auditing of projects and

programs, and maturity of project-oriented individuals, organizations,
and nations. Martina has project management experience in organiza-
tional development, research, and marketing projects.

In any organization, personnel and their professional management are of strategic
importance and contribute to the organizational success (Huselid, 1995). Human
resources management is considered to create competitive advantage in organizations
(Amit and Belcourt, 1999).
To perceive an organization as a project-oriented company or project-oriented
business unit is a social construction. Project-oriented organizations are organiza-
tions that, according to Gareis (1990, 2005), perceive themselves as being project-
oriented, define “management by projects” as their organizational strategy, apply
projects and programs for the performance of complex processes, manage a project
portfolio of different internal and external project types, and have specific permanent
organizations such as a project portfolio group or a project management office to provide

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