The perception of difficulty in project‐work planning and its impact on resource sharing
通过实验室实验，研究了项目经理的任务自我效能感和对工作计划难度的感知如何影响其资源共享行为，发现工作计划难度显著影响共享行为，且受自我效能感调节。
Abstract Managers both competent and willing to share resources can be critical to the performance of the multi‐project settings increasingly common to modern organizations. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from the psychological ownership literature, we examine the impact of project manager (PM) task self‐efficacy and perceptions of project work‐planning difficulty on resource sharing behaviors. In this study we use a laboratory experiment involving practicing PMs to elicit work assignments for their subordinate team‐members across a series of predefined projects. We control for the difficulty of these assignment tasks and follow‐up by inquiring into the willingness of the PMs to share human resources that they’ve assigned to work in these projects. The results from the experiment involving 161 professional PMs suggest that difficulty in project work‐planning in general has a significant impact on sharing behaviors. Consistent with the implications of psychological ownership theory, this relationship is significantly moderated by project managers’ task self‐efficacy. Theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.