Project assignment and project performance evaluation have
traditionally been addressed as two separate research issues. In
this paper, we have presented a new performance-based approach
for integrating these two important issues by using the expected
contribution value of the projects and the expected performance
score specified by the project managers. This approach provides
project-based organizations with a proactive and transparent
mechanism for managing the assignment of new projects to
project managers and for evaluating the performance efficiency
of the completed projects and their responsible project managers.
The use of the expected contribution values of the projects to the
organizational objectives in both the project assignment process
and the project performance evaluation process would facilitate
objective-focused management of the projects. With the opportunity
of specifying a performance score for getting a project, the
project managers are encouraged to take proactive attitudes
towards their preferred projects in the project assignment process
and subsequently take responsibility for their preferred projects in
the performance evaluation process.