Judi Neal, Alan Harpham

The Spirit of Project Management (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the role that spirituality plays in project management. It is an extremely important factor that is almost always overlooked, but when tapped into, it can make the difference between effectiveness and ineffectiveness. With a greater understanding of the role of spirituality in project management, project leaders will be able to engage their team members' passion and purpose, unleash their creativity, and help them solve difficult problems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351881623
• Artikelnr.: 47955307

Autorenporträt

Dr Judi Neal is Director of the Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. The Center supports research, education, and business outreach for those interested in faith and spirituality in the workplace. Judi is President of Edgewalkers International, a consultancy committed to helping leaders, teams and organizations to be on their leading edge. She is the author of Edgewalkers: People and Organizations that Take Risks, Build Bridges and Break New Ground and The Handbook for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace. She was the founder of the International Center for Spirit at Work, and a co-founder of the Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest Group at the Academy of Management. Judi has consulted to organizations such as Pfizer, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Jackson Newspapers, and numerous others, and has spoken about spirituality in the workplace internationally. She is considered one of the pioneers and experts in the field and has been quoted in The London Sunday Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Tokyo Shimbum, and has appeared frequently on television and radio in the U.S. Alan Harpham is a management consultant focused on change management, programme management, project management and executive coaching. He is Chairman of The APM Group, Chairman of Workplace Matters Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire and a previous Board Member of The International Center for Spirit at Work. He is also on the selection committee of the International Faith and Spirit at Work Awards. He is Chairman of Cranfield University's Science & Engineering Research Ethics Committee and the SPD Research Ethics Committee (medical). Alan was co-owner and a founding director of P5 - the Power of Projects. He is also a former trustee of several charitable organisations including MODEM, and The Friends of the Bedford Child Development Centre. He was a founding member of the Jury for the IPMA International Project Management Awards and continued as such until 2006. Alan Harpham is also a former Managing Director and senior consultant of Nichols Associates (now part of The Nichols Group), one of the UK's leading consultancies in project and change management. Before that he was the Director of Cranfield University's MSc in Project Management.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Part I The Context for Spirituality and Project Management: Back ground of project management in a spiritual context
Background on faith and spirituality in the workplace
The virtues of spirituality and project management
The importance of spirituality in project management. Part II Integrating Spirituality and Project Management: Self and spirituality in project management
Teams and spirituality in project management
The organisation and spirituality in project management
The planet and spirituality in project management
The history and the future of project management
Appendices
References
Index.