Resource Allocation and Motivation Strategies in Project Management

While scheduling, rescheduling or levelling resources in project management plenty of methods were derived in the past. Our approach consists of multiple criteria approach to resource assigning and rewarding based on motivation, monitoring and on resource criticality followed by three basic and one combined decision-making strategies. First, in the article, a model of multiple criteria analysis of variants is derived according to the procedure commonly known in project management praxis, then four new approaches (strategies) are suggested for the project manager. Each of them focuses different parameter: 1. frequency of resource criticality - direct impact on success and strong resource motivation, 2. absolute frequency of resource allocations - hidden impact on success, prevention of risk, and 3. absolute amount of resource work in a project - emphasis on resource cooperation and group motivation. A specific mathematical model supports each of these strategies. Our article links the field of project management and multi-criteria decision making in the context of current practice and proposes its own process and mathematical model for solving the problem.