Author : David I. Cleland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (864 download)
Book Synopsis The Cultural Ambience of Project Management--another Look by : David I. Cleland
Download or read book The Cultural Ambience of Project Management--another Look written by David I. Cleland and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project managers effectively increase their chances for successfully realizing projects when they use proven tools and techniques and when they obtain their organization's support. This article examines organizational culture in relation to project management; more specifically, it conceptualizes a model of a supportive project management culture. In doing so, it describes the meaning of culture and the nature of organizational culture; it identifies the factors that researchers and practitioners can analyze when attempting to understand an organization's culture. It then explains four strategies for practicing project management and the influence these strategies have on an organization's culture; it discusses these influences in relation to the cultures of five corporations: Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), General Electric (GE), McDonnell Douglas, Intel, and 3M. It also lists twelve features that influence corporate culture and details ten cultural factors affecting the project manager's role in relation to leading project teams. It describes four ways that organizational culture can affect project team performance as well as the culture common to successful project teams. Accompanying this article are two sidebars: The first compares the key variable characteristics of ineffective and effective project teams; the second outlines the characteristics of successful project teams.