Learning by Experience in the Project-Bases Organization

Rodney Turner, Anne Keegan and L. Crawford

ERIM Report Series Research in Management from Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam

Abstract: This paper describes how project-based organizations use structured experience to aid the learning and development of individuals, and how they capture their experience of projects to feed that back into the improved management of future projects and the experiential learning of individuals. We show that successful project-based organizations ensure their project managers obtain a broad range practical experiences following a spiral staircase career. This takes them through lead design and project team leadership and management roles. These organizations also capture project experience through post completion reviews, and codify them in company procedures which are used as part of the development of new project managers and other professionals.

Keywords: benchmarking; experiential learning; explicit knowledge; project management support networks; tacit knowledge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L2 M M10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-12-19
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