Mechanism of How Project Management Professional Certification Influences Employees' Competency and an Empirical Analysis in Support

Abstract

Abstract:

Project management professional certification is an important means for cultivating project management personnel and plays an important role in advancing project management application. It is an important task to explore the mechanism of how professional certification of project management influences the competency of employees and to study the effectiveness of project management professional certification empirically. This paper builds a theoretical model of the impact of professional certification of project management on the competency of employees and clarifies the key constituents of professional certification of project management and competency of employees. The structural equation model is used to analyze the impact of project management professional certification on the competency of practitioners. A questionnaire survey is conducted through sample data from more than 3,000 personnel who participated in project management qualification certification for empirical analysis. The results show that (1) the influence of occupational standards on comprehensive knowledge and management capacity is not significant; (2) occupational standards and organizational structure have a significant influence on the professional quality of employees; (3) the correlation between training process and practitioners' comprehensive knowledge, management ability and personal charisma is significant; (4) the impact of assessment and continuous learning on the comprehensive knowledge, personal charm and professional quality is significant, and (5) comprehensive knowledge will affect the management capability of employees.

Key words: professional certification, project management, competency, structural equation model

Zhang Jinlan, He Jing, Wu Dengsheng, Li Jianping. Mechanism of How Project Management Professional Certification Influences Employees' Competency and an Empirical Analysis in Support[J]. , 2019, 31(4): 138-146.

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