Obsessive Passion, Competence, and Performance in a Project Management Context

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This research develops and tests hypotheses on the role of project leaders’ obsessive passion for project goals. The results support that challenging goals are attained to a greater extent if the project leader scores high on obsessive passion. Such obsessive passion, in turn, is a result of the project leader’s competence and the team’s competence. Hypothesis 1 states that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between project leaders’ level of competence and their experience of obsessive passion for the project. Hypothesis 2 states that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between project teams’ level of competence and the project leaders’ experience of obsessive passion for the project. Hypothesis 3 states that project leaders’ obsessive passion and the level of goal challenge in the project interact in ways such that project leaders with high obsessive passion in projects with high goal challenges will reach goal attainment than project leaders with high obsessive passion working in projects with low goal challenges. The methods used in this research are sample and data collection. Questionnaires were emailed to 324 projects leaders leading the projects of working toward regional development in Sweden. In total, 134 completed questionnaires were returned, reflecting a response rate of 41.4%. For the survey questionnaires, “5-point Likert scales” are used to rate several of the variables, the type of Likert Scale being used in this research is “Likert Scale Summated Rating”. After the rating of team members’ and project leaders’ competence (competence variable), Cronbach’s alpha was used. Cronbach’s alpha is the most commonly used measure of reliability. It is expressed as a number between 0 and 1. It is mandatory that assessors and researchers should estimate this quantity to add validity and accuracy to the interpretation of their data. There is

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