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Cultural influences in engineering projects / Morgan E. Henrie.

By:

Henrie, Morgan E [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Industrial, systems, and innovation engineering collectionPublisher: New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Momentum Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781606504833

Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

658.402 23

LOC classification:

HD66 .H453 2015

Online resources:

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Available additional physical forms:

Also available in print.

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.

Abstract: 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.

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

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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.