TY - GEN
T1 - Optimizing engineering project governance for sustainability
AU - Tuffley, David
AU - Wong, Yuk Kuen
AU - Houghton, Luke
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Organisations are increasingly leveraging improved decision making processes during the establishment of project teams. Beyond the obvious advantages of accessing qualified, cost-effective project staff, the issues of sustainability and governance are addressed when the virtual teaming approach is used. Projects can proceed without people needing to travel to a co-located work-place, thus saving time, effort and expense while creating less environmental pollution. But there is a governance problem; running virtual projects, particularly complex projects involve a greater degree of difficulty than managing co-located projects. What is needed are effective, practical methods for managing virtual projects. This paper introduces a new Reference Model of Organisational Behavior (RMOB) for the Leadership of Complex Virtual Teams which is arguably an effective way to meet the challenges of virtual teaming. This paper also discusses the new issue of sustainable leadership with mention of the proposed Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Management indicators that point towards sustainable governance.
AB - Organisations are increasingly leveraging improved decision making processes during the establishment of project teams. Beyond the obvious advantages of accessing qualified, cost-effective project staff, the issues of sustainability and governance are addressed when the virtual teaming approach is used. Projects can proceed without people needing to travel to a co-located work-place, thus saving time, effort and expense while creating less environmental pollution. But there is a governance problem; running virtual projects, particularly complex projects involve a greater degree of difficulty than managing co-located projects. What is needed are effective, practical methods for managing virtual projects. This paper introduces a new Reference Model of Organisational Behavior (RMOB) for the Leadership of Complex Virtual Teams which is arguably an effective way to meet the challenges of virtual teaming. This paper also discusses the new issue of sustainable leadership with mention of the proposed Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Management indicators that point towards sustainable governance.
KW - Complex Teams
KW - Equity of access
KW - International governance
KW - Leadership
KW - Process assessment model
KW - Process reference model
KW - Sustainability
KW - Virtual Teams
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80555134634&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.361-363.1638
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.361-363.1638
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80555134634
SN - 9783037852682
VL - 361-363
T3 - Advanced Materials Research
SP - 1638
EP - 1650
BT - Natural Resources and Sustainable Development
T2 - 2011 International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development, ICEESD 2011
Y2 - 21 October 2011 through 23 October 2011
ER -