Download or read book The Impact of Cross Cultural Factors on Heavy Engineering Projects written by Edward G. Ochieng and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing in today's environment provides many challenges and project teams are frequently confronted with situations which challenge the traditional ways projects have been managed. Project success is dependent upon the effective management of people and at the heart of this process is client leadership. Terms such as responsive project manager, issue resolution and value criteria are increasing in popularity, however, dealing with the mutual inconsistency these three terms provides a challenge to most of today's multinational construction organizations. In spite of recent extensive research, there has been little consideration given to how to classify success factors that influence cross-cultural project team performance. The reported research employed both in-depth interviews and postal questionnaires methodologies to capture the relevant experiences of senior managers in Kenya and the UK. The results were grouped under three major headings: (i) monitoring project team performance; (ii) achieving team goals; and (iii) maintaining team affiliations. The project leaders agreed that successful cross-cultural project team performance can be achieved by creating an effective integrated cross-cultural construction team. The findings accentuates a need for future research into project success factors to investigate the experiences of virtual project leaders and the difficulties faced in realizing effective project team performance.
Download or read book From Manufacture to Mindfacture A Relational Viable Systems Theory written by Lavanderos, Leonardo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most powerful tools available to an organization is its ability to create, maintain, and share knowledge and information vital to the success of the organization. From Manufacture to Mindfacture: A Relational Viable Systems Theory explores the concept of the organizational structure through the lens of the viable systems approach. Focusing particularly on human interaction and collaboration within a business setting, this research-based publication is ideally designed for use by business managers, social theorists, upper-level students, and researchers.
Download or read book Post Keynesian Empirical Research and the Debate on Financial Market Development written by Chaiechi, Taha and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current research often highlights the importance of financial markets as well as financial system development. However, the current literature in this field still fails to adequately explain the relationship between financial market and macroeconomic development. Post-Keynesian Empirical Research and the Debate on Financial Market Development integrates the concept of financial intermediaries with Post-Keynesian macroeconomic modeling to discuss the relationship between financial markets and systems and macroeconomic development. Discussing key macroeconomic variables such as investment, savings, and productivity growth, this timely resource is essential for students, academicians, as well as finance and economics professionals interested in uncovering the latest research in this field.
Download or read book Asian Business and Management Practices Trends and Global Considerations written by Ura, Dasho Karma and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a rapidly rising force in the global market, Asian countries hold opportunities for growth and development. However, in order to successfully gain entry into this new part of the market, it will first be necessary to understand the motives and background behind Asian economies. Asian Business and Management Practices: Trends and Global Considerations analyzes the various strategies found in the Asian economic market. Showcasing a broad range of countries in Southeast Asia in addition to China and India, this publication is a broad, widely encompassing resource for academics, PhD students, experts, policymakers, and government officials interested in understanding the background and applications behind business success in Asia.
Download or read book Developing Business Strategies and Identifying Risk Factors in Modern Organizations written by Tavana, Madjid and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As there is a vast amount of information to consider when offering quality services, organizations have developed techniques for identifying risk factors to be taken into consideration when constructing effective business strategies. Developing Business Strategies and Identifying Risk Factors in Modern Organizations presents new methodologies currently being utilized to formulate and solve strategic issues in order to escape the jeopardy of possible business risks. By highlighting a multitude of sciences and their influences on modern organizations; this book is an essential reference for decision makers and researchers in business, industry, government, and academia.
Download or read book International Cross Listing of Chinese Firms written by Liu, Lixian and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many nations are still struggling from the global financial crisis and regaining their financial security, investors are considering alternative options for investing their money; and the secure financial sector is China appears as a viable option. International Cross-Listing of Chinese Firms examines the successful techniques and strategies that Chinese companies are using within their financial practices. It highlights the foreign-based multinational enterprise theories related to the major international stock markets. By providing the latest theories and research, this book will be beneficial for business practitioners, researchers, and managers interested in the relationship between cross-listing and firm valuation of Chinese firms.
Download or read book Culture and Project Management written by Omar Zein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural diversity within many major projects require those managing them to adapt their project management approach to be in harmony with the preferences and behaviours of stakeholders from these cultures; failure to do so can lead to misunderstandings about the project’s purpose and structure; significant difficulties in implementation and in some cases, to conflict or litigation. Omar Zein's Culture and Project Management explores the cultural impact on projects and their management, providing the reader with an understanding of the main elements of cross-cultural theory within the project context. These include our perception of context, achievement, power and group dynamics; and how we approach ambiguity and time. He then identifies key aspects of project management where cultural sensitivity is essential (for example, planning, risk management, project communication and leadership) and offers a structured plan for developing what he calls 'cultural tuning' within a project environment. The book draws on the author’s research, his professional experience of working on transnational projects and his own background. His review of the different theories alongside examples and stories of their practical application, offers project managers a new and extraordinarily rich perspective into the likely dynamics of their projects. Making appropriate adaptations to standard processes, choosing what, how and through whom you communicate with stakeholders may be signal elements in the success or failure of your projects; Culture and Project Management will show where to start.
Download or read book Cultural Influences in Engineering Projects written by Morgan E. Henrie and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Influences in Engineering Projects will focus on a dual objective of discussing culture within the project environment and how project managers can leverage development of a unique project culture to foster a higher probability of project success.
Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Team Working and Collaborative Processes written by Eduardo Salas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art psychological perspective on team working and collaborative organizational processes This handbook makes a unique contribution to organizational psychology and HRM by providing comprehensive international coverage of the contemporary field of team working and collaborative organizational processes. It provides critical reviews of key topics related to teams including design, diversity, leadership, trust processes and performance measurement, drawing on the work of leading thinkers including Linda Argote, Neal Ashkanasy, Robert Kraut, Floor Rink and Daan van Knippenberg.
Download or read book Cross Cultural Design Methods Practice and Impact written by P.L.Patrick Rau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two LNCS volume set 9180-9181 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, in Los Angeles, CA, USA in August 2015, jointly with 15 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the HCII 2015 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4843 submissions. These papers of the two volume set address as follows: LNCS 9180, Cross-Cultural Design: Methods, Practice and Impact (Part I), addressing the following major topics: cross-cultural product design, cross-cultural design methods and case studies, design, innovation, social development and sustainability and LNCS 9181, Cross-Cultural Design: Applications in Mobile Interaction, Education, Health, Transport and Cultural Heritage (Part II), addressing the following major topics: cultural aspects of social media and mobile services, culture for transport and travel, culture for design and design for culture and culture for health, learning and games.
Download or read book Talking Past Each Other written by Konelio Tone and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Konelio Tone PhD Thesis Title: Talking Past Each Other : The Impact of Cross-cultural Communication on Construction Project Management in Samoa. Effective communication has been identified as a key factor in the management of relationships in international projects. Lack of communication has been cited as one of the key reasons for the failure of change projects to meet their objectives. Communication problems have also been highlighted as one of the most significant emerging contemporary challenges facing construction project managers in an increasingly international market. Most research in the construction field has either used a purely quantitative approach or a qualitative preliminary phase just to explore a topic before focusing on a quantitative method. Dr Tone has applied a mixed methods strategy to develop a framework useful to approach communication within a crosscultural project environment. This iterative framework has a useful application to small island nations, developing countries and rural communities where multinational, multicultural and interdisciplinary teams are involved in managing projects. Dr Tone s work has provided an insight to a better understanding of project management within a foreign context . Principal Supervisor: Professor Martin Skitmore Associate Supervisor: Dr Max Quanchi External Associate Supervisor: Professor Lau Asofou Soo.
Download or read book Cross Cultural Management written by David C. Thomas and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-Cultural Management: An Introduction offers students a hands-on approach to cross-cultural management that they can apply to a wide variety of organizational contexts. Rather than focusing on specific countries, authors David C. Thomas and Kerr Inkson highlight the interactions of people from different cultures in organizational settings to provide students with practical applications of concepts in international management. Real-world examples and case studies help students understand and integrate differences between attitudes, values, beliefs, and assumptions so that they can thrive as managers.
Download or read book Cross Cultural Analysis written by Michael Minkov and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive and statistically significant analysis of the predictive powers of each cross-cultural model, based on nation-level variables from a range of large-scale database sources such as the World Values Survey, the Pew Research Center, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the UN Statistics Division, UNDP, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, TIMSS, OECD PISA. Tables with scores for all culture-level dimensions in all major cross-cultural analyses (involving 20 countries or more) that have been published so far in academic journals or books. The book will be an invaluable resource to masters and PhD students taking advanced courses in cross-cultural research and analysis in Management, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, and related programs. It will also be a must-have reference for academics studying cross-cultural dimensions and differences across the social and behavioral sciences.
Download or read book Industrial Engineering Management Science and Applications 2015 written by Mitsuo Gen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 1085 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a complete record of presentations made at Industrial Engineering, Management Science and Applications 2015 (ICIMSA 2015), and provides the reader with a snapshot of current knowledge and state-of-the-art results in industrial engineering, management science and applications. The goal of ICIMSA is to provide an excellent international forum for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to share cutting-edge developments in the field and to exchange and distribute the latest research and theories from the international community. The conference is held every year, making it an ideal platform for people to share their views and experiences in industrial engineering, management science and applications related fields.
Download or read book The Effect of Cross cultural Differences on Rational Decision Making in Construction Projects written by Dmitry Tatarinov and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering 2015 DaEng 2015 written by Jemal H. Abawajy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings gather outstanding research papers presented at the Second International Conference on Data Engineering 2015 (DaEng-2015) and offer a consolidated overview of the latest developments in databases, information retrieval, data mining and knowledge management. The conference brought together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to address key challenges in these fields, discuss advanced data engineering concepts and form new collaborations. The topics covered include but are not limited to: • Data engineering • Big data • Data and knowledge visualization • Data management • Data mining and warehousing • Data privacy & security • Database theory • Heterogeneous databases • Knowledge discovery in databases • Mobile, grid and cloud computing • Knowledge management • Parallel and distributed data • Temporal data • Web data, services and information engineering • Decision support systems • E-Business engineering and management • E-commerce and e-learning • Geographical information systems • Information management • Information quality and strategy • Information retrieval, integration and visualization • Information security • Information systems and technologies
Download or read book Effective Multicultural Teams Theory and Practice written by Claire B. Halverson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multicultural and multinational teams have become an important strategic and structural element of organizational work in our globalized world today. These teams are demonstrating their importance from the factory floors to the boardrooms of contemporary organizations. The emergence of multicultural teams is evident across a variety of organizations in the private, public, and civil society sectors. These developments have led to an increasing interest in the theory and practice of multicultural teams. Management educational and training programs are giving increasing attention to these developments. At the same time, there is emerging interest in research about and study of multicultural teams. This book emerged from our teaching, research, and consulting with multic- tural and diverse teams in multiple sectors over the last several years. In particular, we have developed and refined our ideas about the concepts in this book from teaching an advanced course called Effective Multicultural Teams in the Graduate Program at the School for International Training (SIT) in Vermont. We have learned from the rich background of students who are from, and have worked in, six con- nents, and who are, or plan to be, working in the public, educational, not-for-profit, and for-profit sectors. Additionally, we have engaged with a variety of teams through our consulting and training, providing consultation to teams in a variety of sectors and continents as they struggled to become more effective.
