Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1972. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographic references (leaves 203-207). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis (M.S.M.)--Regis University, Denver, Colo., 2007. / Title from PDF p. 9 (viewed on May 25, 2007). Includes bibliographical references.

This project investigates some aspects of why a minority of ICT project management professionals in the Chinese ICT sector are female. It investigates differences between sexes in their perceived image and knowledge of ICT work, and the relationship between their career paths and gender roles. A literature review identified that little research on women in ICT in China had been carried out prior to this project. The literature on women in traditional male industries (e.g. ICT, engineer, civil engineer) in western countries yielded certain insights and transferable research methods. A pilot interview survey of four parents, six tutors, six students and eight ICT practitioners was undertaken to develop the main semi-structured interview survey instruments. The main survey yielded responses from thirty students and thirty ICT practitioners. The data interpretation and analysis method adopted grounded theory since, as mentioned above; there little relevant research has been carried out on the topic in China. The results are presented in a consistent way to make the data more comparable. Conclusions are drawn based on findings arising from the body of work and academia as a whole. There were found to be some differences between sexes in certain aspects of their views of ICT (project management) work and aspiration to career choice and advancement. The ICT sector has as a working environment is characterised by conflict (androgynous and male-dominant working style), competence, and keeping abreast of developing ICT technologies, which are thought to be more suitable to men. Gender division actually exists, and family responsibilities hold women back in their career advancement in the ICT sector in China.

The study originated from an independent evaluation of a Local Education Authority (LEA) project on multicultural education undertaken by a team of four teachers in two schools; a predominantly white, co-educational rural grammar school and a multi-racial, co-educational urban secondary modern. The thesis examines some key aspects of the conceptualisation, establishment, management and operationalisation of the project. The concepts of multicultural and antiracist education and the related research literature on their initiation in schools are considered. The procedures for the recruitment and selection of the project team are also examined along with the selection of the project schools, their organisation and ethos. The study focuses on the work of the team and their attempt to facilitate and initiate change at departmental and whole-school levels. The difficulty of the team's task and the complexity of racism are highlighted through a senior teacher's life history which examines his perspectives on 'race' and education. The research findings question the adoption of low-key multicultural approaches suggesting that they might marginalise the ability to address the issue of racism in schools and thus be counter-productive. Variables are also identified, in particular the occupational culture of teachers, which might have restricted the team's access to departments, the facilitation of collaborative teaching strategies and the implementation of whole-school policy. It is suggested that a team approach needs to be planned, executed and continually re-evaluated according to clear goals and shared objectives. It is also suggested that it might be advantageous for a team to possess subject-specific expertise and an ability to relate it to racism in the departmental curriculum. Moreover, throughout the process of change the issue of racism needs to remain explicit and, whenever possible, involve the black community in the decision-making process.

iv ABSTRACT This research study was the first to investigate the nature of time-use behaviour of the South African Clinical Research Associates (CRA’s) and Clinical Trial Managers (CTM’s). The study determined the relative polychronicity of project members in clinical trials in South Africa and identified possible non-alignment in the approaches and expectations between managers of clinical research projects and that of their project staff members. The study assumed that the clinical trial project environment is monochronic by nature. Information about a possible mismatch in expected temporal orientation of project staff and real temporal orientation of project staff would constitute grounds for adaptation of project management execution guidelines and staff selection processes for CRA’s and Managers of clinical trials. Quantitative data were collected through the Inventory of Polychronic Values measuring instrument from a sample of the total registered membership base of the South African Clinical Research Association by means of a web based questionnaire. The study analysed the relationships between the following three constructs of relevance: 1. CRA’s own personal preferences for time-use, and 2. CRA’s perceptions of what time-use behaviour their direct managers expect from them, and 3. Managers’ expectations for the time-use behaviour of CRA’s. CRA’s were found to be relatively monochronic in their work behaviour towards time-use and Managers to be more polychronic than CRA’s. Within each group a range of timeuse opinions and preferences were found. Within the constraints of sample size, Cultural Heritage and Age were the only demographic variables found to exert significant influence on the dependent variables in this study. A good alignment was found between the CRA’s perceptions of the time-use behaviours expected from them and the Managers’ expectations for time-use behaviour. The results of this study relate to complementary role differentiation between monochronic and polychronic people in project execution and management.

Academic research is increasingly conducted by teams rather than by individual investigators. Researchers show more interest in studying the effectiveness of such teams. Evidence shows that team science leads to publications which have higher impact ratings and more patents. However, teams conducting academic research are facing various difficulties that prevent them from being successful. This thesis examines factors influencing the effectiveness of academic research project teams and explores how team role theory can help. Data collection was conducted in the University of Ottawa in the form of 5 standardized open-ended interviews with two academic research project teams and complemented by a validated questionnaire. Both teams were in the field of health science while team A had 13 – 20 members and team B had 6 members. We adopted a multi-method qualitative-dominant comparative research design and considered each team as a unit of analysis. We inductively generated codes and used the input-process-output (IPO) theory and the team role experience and orientation (TREO) theory as overarching deductive models to analyze data. Findings show that the IPO and TREO theories are helpful in studying the effectiveness of academic research project teams. The findings suggest that further research on academic research project teams using the IPO and the TREO theories is necessary, especially on the topic of team role complementarity. They also suggest that project management training on topics such as project planning and risk management can enhance academic research project teams’ effectiveness.

Thesis (MTech (Business Administration))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2005 / Project risk management is concemed with identifying, assessing and responding to uncertainties which could impact project outcomes. These impacts might be positive or negative, although the tendency in business has been to focus on the negative - or downside - risks, Le., those risks which could be potentially detrimental to project outcomes. Risk management requires an investment in time, effort and cost. For this reason, it has to be efficient if it is going to make business-sense. If it can be shown that risk management plays a positive role in supporting successful project delivery, then the case for investing in risk management will be validated. This study focuses on two projects within Old Mutual, to investigate the link between risk management and project success. Both projects had been approved by the company's Strategic Investment Committee (SICOM), which required that they conform to various governance criteria, including that their risks be managed according to a specified process. One of the projects - CRAFT - was deemed by its stakehoiders to have delivered successfully, while the other - SSA - was perceived to have had mixed results. As a precursor to the study, an extensive review of the current literature on project risk management was undertaken. The literature was found to be largely consistent in its definition of project risk management, and to be concerned mainly with developing the processes and techniques for improving risk management in the live project environment. Based on the literature, it was possible to develop an analytical framework for use as a generic tool in evaluating the role which effective risk management practice could have on project success.

Stories have always been present in the life of people as a part of their culture, it is a rather ancient narrative technique. The message delivered in a form of a story is specifically appealing to listeners, which makes it a powerful communication tool. The thesis explores storytelling practices in project management by answering the question: “How project managers use storytelling in new business process implementation in ICT projects?” The choice of the topic was driven by the gap in the literature and the choice of context was chosen by the level of maturity of project management in ICT industry. Within the framework of interpretivist research paradigm, the data was collected by interviewing ten project managers of new business process implementation in ICT projects. The thesis findings suggest that storytelling in implementation of new business processes in ICT projects is used in formal and informal forums in written and verbal format. Project managers use storytelling to pursue several goals: making sense of ICT projects, human resource management, promoting adaptation to new business processes, knowledge management and attracting new customers and investments into ICT projects. Storytelling in ICT projects is also limited by storytelling conditions, such as organizational culture, extent of change, governance structure. Storytelling in projects is subject to challenges, such as logistics and timeliness of practices. From the practical point of view, the thesis explores storytelling as an effective communication tool that can be used for multiple goals in project management. It allows adding storytelling to the requirement list of new soft competences of project managers. The thesis has bridged a literature gap between storytelling and project management, which opens new theoretical perspective of interpreting the reality in projects and creates space for further research.

Orientador: Ariovaldo Denis Granja / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T04:56:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliva_CarolinaAsensio_M.pdf: 2146381 bytes, checksum: f58bd1032ae5265e3d04c8a5e650aa48 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Tradicionalmente, a entrega de empreendimentos da construção civil com maior valor agregado por meio da elaboração do projeto esbarra nas restrições estabelecidas pelos investidores (construtoras, incorporadoras), além das dificuldades impostas por um processo de desenvolvimento do produto altamente fragmentado e onde os interesses individuais das partes dificultam a possibilidade de colaboração mútua entre todos os envolvidos. Somando-se a isso, objetivos, meios e restrições mudam naturalmente durante a definição do projeto até que todos estejam alinhados e mutuamente consistentes entre si. Essas características fazem com que a aplicação do Target Value Design (TVD), - uma prática de gestão que busca fazer das restrições de custos do cliente indutores de criatividade de projeto - uma importante ferramenta para incentivar mudanças. Diante disso, o objetivo desta pesquisa é desenvolver uma proposta de integração do TVD na gestão do processo de projeto em empreendimentos da construção civil voltados para habitação no Brasil. O método de pesquisa pode ser dividido em duas etapas: estudo de caso exploratório, realizado em construtora e em escritório de arquitetura, e a segunda etapa que reúne dois estudos de caso em duas construtoras. A proposta utiliza os princípios do TVD, e os divide em três níveis de colaboração entre os agentes envolvidos na gestão do processo de projeto. A aplicação da proposta demanda um diagnóstico inicial, para que as empresas elaborarem um plano de ação a fim de propor mudanças no modelo tradicional. A contribuição deste trabalho é discutir as restrições de custo como parâmetro indutor de criatividade e maior entrega de valor para o usuário final, em ambientes pouco colaborativos / Abstract: Traditionally, the product delivery with higher benefits, has restrictions imposed by the investors (building companies, main contractors), in addition to the difficulties imposed by a highly fragmented product development process, where individual interests difficult the possibility for collaboration between all involved. Furthermore, objectives, means and restrictions change naturally during design definition until everything is aligned e consistent between one another. These characteristics point out the Target Value Design (TVD) ¿ a management practice that seeks to turn the client's cost restrictions into inputs for design creativity ¿ an important tool to incentive changes. The objective of this research is to develop a proposal for TVD integration, in the design process management for construction housing products in Brazil. The research method has two phases: an exploratory case study, carried out in both in a construction company and an architecture's office. The second phase gathers two case studies in two construction companies. This proposal uses TVD principles, divided into three levels of collaboration of the actors involved in the design process management. This application demands an initial diagnosis, so the companies can elaborate an action plan for offer initial changes in the traditional model. The research's contribution is to discuss the cost restrictions as trigger for creativity and higher value products for final users, in a non-collaborative environment / Mestrado / Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade / Mestra em Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade

M.Comm. / This study consists of two parts. There is a theory part and a research part. The first part of the theory encompasses effectiveness and efficiency of project management within the telecommunication company. The theory focuses on project management in general and the management tasks of the project manager that can improve the effectiveness and efficiency. This part focuses on projects versus operations, the flow of power, organisational structure, projects versus functional management, delegation, project life cycle, formal and informal project management, the use of computers, quotations, quality, the project manager and the law. The second part of the theory focuses on management tasks of the project manager such as attributes and skills, the task of the project manager, project planning, co-operation, meetings, leadership, communication, conflicts, co-ordination and motivation. The research is focused on the effectiveness and efficiency of project management within the telecommunication company. The final part gives suggestions to solve all the problems that are present in the company.