La gestion des ressources humaines et le succès des projets : le cas des pays en voie de développement
The specialists in the project management are divided between those who defend the importance of human resources practices in the project success and those who remain sceptics about the existence of such a relationship. Our study aims to enrich this debate and try to confirm or invalidate the existence of a relationship between the human resources management (HRM) and the project success.  The realization of a study in the developing countries where the economical, social, cultural and legal conditions are different from the industrialized countries will make it possible to verify whether the relationship between the HRM and the project success would vary or not according to the countries where the project is established.  Our results revealed that although the HRM has a significant relationship to the project success in the developing countries, it has the least strong correlation with this success. This surprising result can be explained essentially by the characteristics of the developing countries which affect the project management and the human resource management. This result could be also explained by the characteristics relating to the HRM in the project context.  In order to better understand the relationship between the HR practices and the project success in the developing countries, future research should pay attention to the characteristics of the HRM in the project context, particularly in the developing countries.
Project success in developing countries Success factors Human resource management Project life cycle Project structure Project activity sectors Characteristics of developing countries