De Gruyter Handbook of Responsible Project Management

Published by De Gruyter 2023

De Gruyter Handbook of Responsible Project Management

Edited by: Beverly L. Pasian and Nigel L. Williams

In the series De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics and Finance

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110724783

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About this book

The narrative about the project management profession is dominated by discussions of “success” and “failure” along with the need to improve the competence of project managers. As a result, the community is engaged in a fruitless search for a combination of tools, techniques and practices that will result in desired outcomes for funders. While the profession has made recent attempts to incorporate environmental and social responsibility, these areas are still framed within the existing discourses of project delivery. The De Gruyter Handbook of Responsible Project Management seeks to rethink project management by integrating contributions from the emerging responsible Management domain.

This handbook will explore the nature and extent of project professionals’ responsibility at different levels – individual, team, organizational and societal – along with the implications for education, research and practice. The De Gruyter Handbook of Responsible Project Management offers cutting-edge insights into the fi eld of project management. It is an essential reference for scholars and practitioners.

Summarizes and structures an emerging research field and makes it available to a broader scientific audience.
Editors are leading figures in Responsible Project Management.
Aligned with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Author information

Beverly Pasian’s career is one of a project management practitioner and researcher. For more than 30 years, she has managed, taught, and conducted research in the public sector around the world. She has dozens of courses, papers, and presentations to her credit along with master’s degrees (in education and business), a doctorate in project management (2011) and a doctorate in business administration (2023), as well as expert and leadership participation in the IEEE and IPMA are ongoing. One of the best decisions of her professional life was to pivot her focus from project management maturity to smart cities. Investigating the role of projects in maximizing quality of life in smart cities is the most responsible step she wants to take as a researcher with the ultimate goal of working directly with companies and cities to do the same.

Dr Nigel L. Williams, PMP is the Reader in Project Management in the Organizations and Systems Management Subject Group at the University of Portsmouth. Before he joined academia, he worked for 15 years as a manager and business consultant for companies in the Caribbean region. Nigel is one of the founders of the ‘Responsible Project Management’ website and is a co-author of the RPM manifesto. The site is at https://www.responsiblepm.com/

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction Beverly Pasian and Nigel Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section 1: Responsible Individuals
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
1 Morality and Spirituality: Essential to Responsible Project Management Darren Dalcher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2 Walking the Road to a Diverse and Inclusive Project Team Loredana Abramo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
3 Decent Work and Sustainable Human Capital Management in Responsible Project Management Krishanthi Vithana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Section 2: Responsible Project Practice
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
4 Governance, Policy, and Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
5 Leadership Development Through Responsible Conversations Shirley Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
6 The Ambivalent Role of Professional Bodies for RPM Reinhard Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
7 Responsible Reporting in Project Management Alexia Nalewaik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
8 Responsible Project Organizing Nigel Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
9 Public Health-Care Management Nigel Williams and Beverly Pasian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
10 Lessons Learnt from Irresponsibility in Project Management Rich Maltzman and Luigi Morsa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
11 Responsible Project Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Greg Usher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
12 Responsible Leadership in Megaprojects Ganesh Devkar and Shankar Sankaran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
13 Responsible Value Chain Vladimir Obradović and Marija Todorović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Section 3: Responsible Communities
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
14 Responsible Project Management for Communities Protection of Culture Ghasan Almaamari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
15 Project Management in Humanitarian Aid Organizations: The Case of Nongovernmental Start-Ups José Ramón Otegi-Olaso, Leticia Fuentes-Ardeo and José Ricardo López-Robles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
16 Responsible Project Management: Hunger and Poverty Alleviation John Lannon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
17 Project Governance in a Post-Conflict Setting Gamlath, G. R. M. and Yogarajah Nanthagopan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
18 Why Isn’t the Climate Changing Our Research? Nigel Williams and Beverly Pasian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Section 4: Responsible Research and Education
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
19 Ethical Research Questions in Responsible Project Management Ramesh Vahidi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
20 Competencies for Responsible Project Management Karen Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
21 Responsible Forms of Project Management Education Herbert Daly, Nicole Ferdinand, Karen Thompson and Nigel Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
List of Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers, postgraduate students and practitioners of project management
Pages
- Front matter: 15
- Main content: 477
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Tables: 61
Keywords: Responsible project management; project management; project accountability; societal value; project stakeholders

eBook

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110724783

Hardcover

Published: January 30, 2023
ISBN: 9783110724288