Managing Cultural Complexity in Global Projects

This study aims at the analysis of the lexicon in English of the two professional areas, telecommunications and finance, affected by the crises of the recent years: the 90s dot-com bubble and the present-day Credit Crunch. Both crises share a common context of wealth and cultural complexity, being the root for the coinage of innovative specialised terms and collocations. Our study is specifically aimed at unveiling the lexical coverage of both crises, in terms of technolects and their context, evolving in several phases. First, two corpora of specialised, semi-specialised and general texts from the domains’ digital periodicals will be characterized according to lexical relevance and terminological volume, to see the extent in which they are lexically connected or diverge when experiencing a critical situation like a crisis. Finally, clarifying how far these two disciplines have related during the last critical years will hopefully provide some clues for the lexical ethnography of two institutionalised ways of thinking.

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Embedding Work Culture in Building Information Modelling (BIM) for Enhancing Collaboration in Global Projects

International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling ◽

10.4018/ij3dim.2013040102 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 16-29 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Maszura Abdul Ghafar ◽

Rahinah Ibrahim ◽

Zalina Shari ◽

Farzad Pour Rahimian

Keyword(s):

Developed Countries ◽

Knowledge Flows ◽

Working Environment ◽

Work Culture ◽

Building Information Modelling ◽

Information Modelling ◽

Building Information ◽

Global Projects ◽

Building Project ◽

Local Work

Building Information Modelling is further globalising Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) professional partnerships. However, little is known on the effect of cultural and human factors on BIM enabled visualisation applications. This desktop study examined the extant literature on factors relating to application of BIM enabled visualisation technologies as a process that can improve, leverage and conduct visual communication for coordination during implementation of global projects. It identifies BIM enabled visualisation having the capability in facilitating knowledge flows in complex discontinuous working environment of a property development’s life cycle, and supports designers’ understanding in its early working phases. This paper presents the development of a theoretical proposition for embedding local work culture etiquette in BIM enabled visualisation application for augmenting dynamic knowledge transfer among discontinuous members in a building project. The result is expected to benefit rapidly developing countries, e.g. Malaysia, in enabling successful partnerships with counterparts from developed countries.

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Integration of BIM Work Culture for Improving Global Project Collaboration Productivity

Contemporary Strategies and Approaches in 3-D Information Modeling - Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5625-1.ch006 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 136-157

Author(s):

Maszura Abdul Ghafar ◽

Rahinah Ibrahim ◽

Zalina Shari ◽

Farzad Pour Rahimian

Keyword(s):

Developed Countries ◽

Knowledge Flows ◽

Working Environment ◽

Work Culture ◽

Building Information ◽

Global Projects ◽

Building Project ◽

Visualization Application ◽

Global Project ◽

Local Work

Building information modelling is further globalizing architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professional partnerships. However, little is known on the effect of cultural and human factors on BIM-enabled visualization applications. This desktop study examined the extant literature on factors relating to application of BIM-enabled visualization technologies as a process that can improve, leverage, and conduct visual communication for coordination during implementation of global projects. It identifies BIM-enabled visualization having the capability in facilitating knowledge flows in complex discontinuous working environment of a property development's life cycle, and supports designers' understanding in its early working phases. This chapter presents the development of a theoretical proposition for embedding local work culture etiquette in BIM-enabled visualization application for augmenting dynamic knowledge transfer among discontinuous members in a building project. The result is expected to benefit rapidly developing countries (e.g., Malaysia) in enabling successful partnerships with counterparts from developed countries.

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Trabalho digno expressando valores universais e respeitando diversidade cultural: Proposições para a intervenção

Psychologica ◽

10.14195/1647-8606_62-1_12 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

pp. 233-250

Author(s):

Nuno Rebelo Dos Santos

Keyword(s):

Human Values ◽

International Labour Organization ◽

Research Subject ◽

Social Phenomenon ◽

Decent Work ◽

Research Subjects ◽

Cultural Complexity ◽

Working Lives ◽

United Nations Agency ◽

Work Intervention

Decent work is a comprehensive concept expressing people’s aspirations for their working lives. This concept has had great legitimacy since it was proposed by the International Labour Organization, the United Nations agency for labour issues, which is the well-established institutional world forum for cooperation. Furthermore, decent work has joined various research subjects in labour-related disciplines, gaining a central role as a research subject and intervention compass. This paper aims to discuss the consequences of societies’ cultural complexity for decent work intervention. After highlighting previous research subjects in labour-related disciplines that are closely related to the decent work dimensions, the consequences of cultural complexity for intervention are pointed out. The tension between universal human values, cultural diversity and culture as an evolving social phenomenon is the trigger for proposing a balance expressed in several propositions concerning culture-sensitive intervention in decent work.

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The Smart Systems' Role In the Infrastructure's Integrated Management For Housing Projects

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning ◽

10.36041/iqjap.v19i2.518 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 72-87

Author(s):

Marwa Mohmmed Alzidi ◽

Safaa Aldeen Hussein Al-Samarae

Keyword(s):

Communication Systems ◽

Integrated Management ◽

Research Problem ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Infrastructure Management ◽

Smart Systems ◽

Housing Projects ◽

Global Projects ◽

Network Technologies

Many contemporary economic and social drivers have enabled the introduction of sensor network technologies, computing and communication systems in urban infrastructure and contemporary housing projects with the aim of achieving integration between infrastructure management. As a result, the current study deals with a topic that has not been dealt with through previous studies, theses and theses in an accurate and required manner. Therefore, the aim of the research was to clarify the role of smart systems in achieving integrated management by building a comprehensive theoretical framework to be a research problem (the need for a comprehensive theoretical framework on the role of smart systems in achieving integrated management of infrastructure infrastructure related to housing projects). This goal is achieved by adopting a descriptive analytical approach that includes several stages, the first of which is the analysis of multiple studies and the extraction of the main vocabulary represented in (the basic elements of infrastructure intelligence, planning, design, monitoring and observation of Smart infrastructure). Second, applying these vocabulary to a number of global projects, then discussing the results of the practical study, and presented final conclusions , to be a knowledge base that can be used and applied to future projects.

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DOMINANT OR DIFFERENT? GENDER ISSUES IN COMPUTER SUPPORTED LEARNING

Online Learning ◽

10.24059/olj.v7i1.1860 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cathy Gunn

Keyword(s):

Educational Opportunity ◽

Technology Literacy ◽

Dominant Male ◽

Interaction Style ◽

Cultural Complexity ◽

Interaction Styles ◽

And Performance ◽

Electronic Channels ◽

Better Than

A significant increase in the use of computer-supported learning (CSL) within schools and universities across the world gives rise to concern about gender-related differences in performance and interaction style in these environments. Research has shown that initial perceptions of CSL environments as democratic and offering equal opportunities to all students were flawed because interactions that take place through electronic channels lose none of the socio-cultural complexity or gender imbalance that exists within society. Much of the recent literature states that women are disadvantaged because of inferior levels of access and technology literacy and dominant male behavior. However, the assumption that difference implies disadvantage is challenged by evidence that variable factors such as professed confidence and apparently dominant interaction styles do not necessarily lead to better educational opportunity and performance. This paper contains a summary of gender-related issues identified by international research and academic practice together with supportive case study examples. The conclusion is that women often perform better than men despite the observable differences in interaction style.

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