Project ethics /
How relevant is ethics to project management? The book - which aims to demystify the field of ethics for project managers and managers in general - takes both a critical and a practical look at project management in terms of success criteria, and ethical opportunities and risks. The goal is to help...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Gower,
©2013.
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Colección: | Advances in project management.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Project Ethics; Book Overview; 1 The Critical Path of Project Ethics; What is Ethics?; The Discipline of Project Management; The Critical Path; Project Ethics; How Ethics is Not 'Just Ethics'; Four Theories; The Nature of Ethical Issues; Business, Engineering and Self-Actualisation; Guides, Books of Knowledge and Ethical Codes; Project Ethics in Practice: Icelandic Survey; Conduct, Demeanour and Management; 2 Outcome-Oriented Ethics: Virtue Ethics; Virtue Ethics; The Origin of Virtue Ethics; Practical Wisdom.
- What to Do?Being Good at What We Do; The Competent Project Leader; Competence and Commitment; Professionalism; Complying with Virtue; 3 Outcome-Oriented Ethics: Utility Ethics; Utility Ethics; Success and Value; Efficiency and Effectiveness; Utility and Project Management Success; Utility and Project Success; Project Success and Project Management Success; Project Success Criteria and Project Success Factors; Multidimensional Critical Success Factor Frameworks; Reinventing Project Management; 4 Process-Oriented Project Ethics: Duty Ethics; Duty and the Rules of the Game.
- Critical Success Factor FrameworksThe Ironic Sense of Responsibility; The Iron Law of Duty; Minimal and Optimal Responsibilities; Who is to Decide?; Roles and Functions; Fear of Authority; Obligation and Sense of Duty; 5 Process-Oriented Project Ethics: Rights Ethics; Project Management Privileges; Project Rights; Universal Rights; The Social Contract; Claim to Property and Profit; Justice and Opportunity; Appropriate Conduct; Stakeholders and the Project Contract; Sustainability and the Rights of Nature; 6 Project Evaluation and (Ethical) Risks; Conventional Risk Management.
- Holistic Risk ManagementEthical Project Risk Management; The New Field of Project Ethics; Wide Paths and Narrow Paths; Heading Towards the Future along the Critical Path; The Key Agents; Essential Project Elements and Ethical Principles; How to Use the Project Ethics Tool (PET); Two Cases for You to Try Out the PERIA; Conclusions; References; Index.