RESEARCHS ABOUT HUMAN RESOURCES IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT: ANALYSIS OF BRAZILIAN ACADEMIC JOURNALS IN THE PERIOD 2005-2017

Abstract

The aim of this article is to describe how the People Management is inserted in the research on
Project Management in the Brazilian academic journals between the years 2005 and 2017. The
data collection began with the search for articles published in Brazilian journals that presented
the terms "People Management" and "Projects", as well as "Human Resources" and "Projects".
The sites of the selected journals were visited and all editions between 2005 and 2017 were
analyzed. The 62 articles that passed the inclusion criteria, including the topic People
Management in research on Project Management, were downloaded and the metadata exported
to an Excel spreadsheet. After this phase the analysis of the metadata of the research corpus and
subsequent critical analysis of the content of the selected articles were performed. The results
point out that the theme of People Management is the central object of analysis in a small
number of articles in the Project Management area, being addressed transversally in many
researches that deal with project maturity, strategy, risk, among others. It is noteworthy that the
main journal that published the topics researched was the journal GeP, followed by the journals
Production, JISTEM and Produção On Line. A relevant aspect found in this research is that
many articles have examined Knowledge Management and Competences, these topics being
presented as determinants of greater productivity or success in Project Management. Another
important point is that many studies have analyzed the allocation of people in a rational
instrumental perspective.