Cultural influences in engineering projects / Morgan E. Henrie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henrie, Morgan E., author.

Series:

Industrial, systems, and innovation engineering collection.

Industrial, systems, and innovation engineering collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate culture.

Teams in the workplace.

Engineering--Management.

Engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Momentum Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Culture can be a significant contributor to, or hindrance to, a team's success. Research has clearly established that failing to have a cohesive team culture creates a severe challenge to any team effort. Culture is also something that everyone brings with them to the team. Yet, developing an understanding of what the team culture is, what constitutes a cohesive team culture, and how to modify it such that it enhances the probability of team success is a challenge to team leaders. Cultural team challenges exist within holistic, that is, teams from a single nation, or multinational teams. Cultural Influences in Engineering Projects provides team leaders and interested individuals a cohesive source of information, ideas, and approaches on how to understand, analyze, develop cultural transition plans, and methods which can improve or modify a team's culture toward success. Cultural Influences in Engineering Projects also includes an extensive literature review reference set which provides the reader a ready source where they can continue to expand their cultural knowledge base and ultimately improve their probability of successfully managing holistic and multinational teams.

Contents:

1. Introduction to projects, project management, and project managers

2. Introduction to culture: what is it and why is culture involved in projects?

3. A review of culture in project literature

4. Project teams: the subculture within the organization

5. Developing and maintaining an effective project team culture

6. Cross-cultural project teams and cultural influences

References

Bibliography

About the author

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78684-342-0

1-60650-483-5

OCLC:

898746191

Publisher Number:

10.5643/9781606504833