Project Team Rewards
Literature Review
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information if behaviour and/or performance should be rewarded
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. It states, “only
desirable behaviour should be rewarded” (PMI 2004:214), and then recommends
rewarding “based on the team’s performance” (PMI 2004:218). Detailed information
about rewarding projects teams and possible difficulties is missing.
Table 10: Project Management Books, Categorised
General project management literature widely ignores rewards and is disappointing
considering the depth and complexity of the reward literature. Table 10 lists 61 researched
textbooks and papers categorised according to its attitude towards rewards. The review
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In the project management literature, authors usually call competence-based rewards behaviour-based
rewards.
Team
Individual
Team & Individual
"It Depends"
No clear
differentiation
Throughout
positive
Kendrick
(2004); Orr
(2004)
Frigenti et al.
(2002); Phillips
et al. (2002)
Barkley & Saylor
(2001); Cappels
(2004); Crawford
(2002)
--
Anderson et al.
(2004); Frame (2002
& 2003); Thomsett
(2002); Tinnirello
(1999); Wysocki
(2003)
Bascially
positive
Heerkens
(2002); Kerzner
(2004)
--
Aguanno (2003);
Burnett (1998); Gibson
& Cohen (2003); Gray
& Larson (2002);
Levine (2002); Rad &
Levine (2003);
Tinnirello (2001)
--
APM (2002); Dobson
(2003); Kerzner
(2001a & 2003a):
Newell & Grashina
(2004)
Throughout
negative
No significant
coverage of
project team
rewards
Table 10: Project Management Literature, Categorised
Reward Target (Whom to reward?)
Berkun (2005); Bower et al. (2002); Bradbary & Garrett (2005); Branconi & Loch (2004); Burgess &
Turner (2000); Charvat (2003); Cooper at al. (2005); Dodin & Elimam (2001); Dunn (2001); Gale
(2004); Gällstedt (2003); GPM (2005); Harbi (1998); Harvard (2000); Howes (2001); Kadefors
(2003); Keegan & Hartog (2004); Kerzner (2001b); Mansfield & Odeh (1991); Martin & Tate (2001);
Naoum (2003); Ng et al. (2004); Parker & Skitmore (2005); Schulte (2004); Schwindt (2005);
Tampoe & Thurloway (1993); Teo et al. (2005); Thamhain (2004); Turner & Müller (2003); Turner &
Simister (2001); Wysocki (2004)
Baker & Baker (2000 & 2003); Leach (2002)
This
table
categorises
61
project
management
papers
and
textbooks.
The
literature
is
categorised
according
to
its
general
attitude towards rewards and its answer to the reward target question (whom to reward).
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