Exploring patterns of sustainability stimuli of project managers
- Marnewick, Carl, Silvius, Gilbert, Schipper, Ron
- Authors: Marnewick, Carl , Silvius, Gilbert , Schipper, Ron
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Sustainability , Stimulus patterns , Project manager
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/397872 , uj:33093 , Citation: Marnewick, C., Silvius, G. & Schipper, R. 2019. Exploring patterns of sustainability stimuli of project managers. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5016; doi:10.3390/su11185016
- Description: Abstract: 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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- Authors: Marnewick, Carl , Silvius, Gilbert , Schipper, Ron
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Sustainability , Stimulus patterns , Project manager
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/397872 , uj:33093 , Citation: Marnewick, C., Silvius, G. & Schipper, R. 2019. Exploring patterns of sustainability stimuli of project managers. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5016; doi:10.3390/su11185016
- Description: Abstract: 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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Exploring responsible project management education
- Silvius, Gilbert, Schipper, Ron
- Authors: Silvius, Gilbert , Schipper, Ron
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Project management , Responsible management education , Sustainability
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/289539 , uj:31416 , Citation: Silvius, G. & Schipper, R. 2019. Exploring responsible project management education. Educ. Sci. 2019, 9, 2; doi:10.3390/educsci9010002.
- Description: Abstract: 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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- Authors: Silvius, Gilbert , Schipper, Ron
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Project management , Responsible management education , Sustainability
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/289539 , uj:31416 , Citation: Silvius, G. & Schipper, R. 2019. Exploring responsible project management education. Educ. Sci. 2019, 9, 2; doi:10.3390/educsci9010002.
- Description: Abstract: 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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