Global Project Management Trends

Alvarez-Dionisi, Luis Emilio; Turner, J. Rodney; Mittra, Mitali

doi:10.4018/ijitpm.2016070104

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“…This relationship between sustainability and project management is one of the most important global project management trends today [36] that is being addressed in a growing number of studies and publications [37,38]. From the emerging literature on this topic, two types of relationship between sustainability and project management appeared [39,40]: the sustainability of the project's product, the deliverable that the project realizes and the sustainability of the process of delivering and managing the project.…”

Section: Sustainability In Project Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Responsible Project Management Education

Silvius

Schipper²

2018

Education Sciences

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As projects are evolving from tactical level 'tasks' to societally-relevant 'instruments of change', the theories, methods, and practices of project management need to evolve, too. Academic programs on project management, logically, should be frontrunners in this development, which calls for societally-relevant and 'responsible' project management education. Following the model of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education, some first ideas on what Responsible Project Management Education should entail developed. The study presented in this article uses meta-synthesis to explore the meaning and characteristics of responsible project management education. The study concludes nine characteristics that provide a conceptual starting point for more empirical research on the topic.

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Section: Sustainability In Project Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Responsible Project Management Education

Silvius

Schipper²

2018

Education Sciences

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“…'Green' or 'sustainable' project management is one of the most important global project management trends today [1,2]. As organizations are making the transition to more sustainable products, services, resources, practices and business processes [3], also the process of project management is affected [4].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Patterns of Sustainability Stimuli of Project Managers

2019

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Sustainable project management is becoming important and the sustainability concepts of people, the planet and profit needs to be incorporated into any type of project. This article focuses on the behavior of the project manager per se and the stimuli patterns that motivate them to adhere to sustainable project management. Three stimuli patterns are used i.e., intrinsically motivated, pragmatic and task driven. To determine which of these patterns influence a project manager, a quantitative pair-wise comparison was used. Twelve statements were used in a pair-wise comparison resulting in a combination of 66 questions. A sample of 101 project managers was analyzed to determine the stimuli patterns. The results indicate that the most prevalent stimulus pattern is the intrinsically motivated pattern with the other two patterns equally important. The results are consistent across gender, age and types of projects as well as industries. It can be concluded that for this study, project managers incorporate sustainability because they feel that it is something they should do. The motivation to consider sustainability is dominated by their behavioral beliefs and the characteristics of the project, or the opinion of others, do not play a large role. This research contributes to the larger body of knowledge with regards to sustainable project management and specifically to the human behavior of project managers. This research addresses the gap that currently exists in current literature where the focus is on the product's sustainability and sustainable processes.

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“…Several authors (For example Silvius et al, 2012;Marcelino-Sádaba et al, 2015;Silvius, 2015;Huemann & Silvius, 2017) suggest that consideration of sustainability should be integrated into the processes and practices of project management, and sustainability is considered a new 'school of thought' in project management (Silvius, 2017). This approach, often labelled 'Sustainable Project Management' (SPM), is gaining traction in studies and publications (Silvius & Schipper, 2014;Aarseth et al, 2017;Armenia et al, 2019;Sabini et al, 2019), and SPM is identified as one of the most important global project management trends today (Alvarez-Dionisi et al, 2016).…”

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Factors That Stimulate Project Managers to Consider Sustainability; Exploring the Stimulus Patterns of Canadian Project Managers

Poon¹,

Silvius²

2019

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As sustainability is being integrated into corporate strategies, the discussions on sustainability have moved from whether it should be addressed in strategy, to how it should be integrated into business practices. And as projects are a vehicle for the implementation of organizational strategies, it is suggested that consideration of sustainability should be integrated into the processes and practices of project management. A pivotal role in this integration is foreseen for the project manager. The project manager has a central position in the project, which provides the opportunity to influence many aspects of the project. However, an opportunity to act is be enough, as many factors or circumstances influence the actual behavior of the project manager with regards to sustainability. In a European study into the factors that stimulate project managers to address sustainability, three distinct stimulus patterns were revealed. As national or societal culture is known to influence sustainability behavior, the study reported in this paper focuses on exploring the factors that stimulate Canadian project managers to consider sustainability in their projects. Similar to the European study, this study revealed three distinct stimulus patterns, that were characterized as ‘Intrinsically motivated’, ‘Pragmatic’ and ‘Normative driven’. The findings of the study confirm the patterns of the earlier study to a large extent. Two of the three patterns of the studies showed similar characteristics. The third pattern of the studies showed partial similarity and partial difference, with the European project managers tending more towards the opportunities for implementation of sustainability, and the Canadian project managers putting more value on the alignment of personal and organizational values.

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Global Project Management Trends

Cited by 32 publications

References 12 publications

Exploring Responsible Project Management Education

Exploring Responsible Project Management Education

Exploring Patterns of Sustainability Stimuli of Project Managers

Factors That Stimulate Project Managers to Consider Sustainability; Exploring the Stimulus Patterns of Canadian Project Managers

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