Top Management Abrogation: Project Failure Root Cause

2015 ◽  
pp. 1342-1343
Keyword(s):  
Top Management ◽  
Project Failure ◽  
Root Cause

Who cares about ethical practices at workplace? A taxonomy of employees’ unethical conduct from top management perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jatinder Kumar Jha ◽  
Manjari Singh
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Unethical Conduct ◽  
Unethical Behaviour ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Unethical Practices

Purpose The purpose of the study is to explore the various kind of prevailing unethical practices at workplace along with identification of factors triggering such unethical practices. Growing incidences of indulgence of employees in unethical acts in various organisation and negative consequences associated with it for the organisation such as erosion of reputation because of advance digital media coverage, shareholder value and others made compulsive to study the root cause of unethical behaviour at the workplace. Design/methodology/approach This study extracts meaning from the experiences of top managers working in nine Indian organisations to understand the challenges faced by individuals at the workplace using the Gioia methodology. A total of 33 top management team (TMT) members were interviewed in detail to capture their experience in regard to various challenges that impose a threat to ethical conduct in the organisation. Findings The authors identified four categories of unethical behaviour, namely, pro-self, lack of autonomy, pro-organisation, systemic and negligence. Further, the authors have developed a taxonomy suggesting strategies to control unethical conduct at the workplace. Besides, the current study unravels the triggers behind different categories of unethical conduct, such as bottom-line mentality, rent-seeking behaviour of government officials, fluid ethical study culture and others. Originality/value Various types of unethical behaviour have been identified and frameworks to address such unethical practices are suggested in the paper. TMTs views have been captured to understand the root cause of unethical practices and strategies for addressing them have been discussed in the paper.

scholarly journals Diagnosing the Causes of Failure in the Construction Sector Using Root Cause Analysis Technique

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Faiq M. S. Al-Zwainy ◽  
Ibrahim A. Mohammed ◽  
Ibrahim F. Varouqa
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Project Failure ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Monitoring Process ◽  
Process Group

The aim of this study is identifying and diagnosing the causes of construction project failure by using different project management process groups. These groups were initiation process group, planning process group, design process group, contract process group, executing and monitoring process group, and close process group. Also, the relative importance of the causes of construction project failure was investigated. Three techniques were used in this study: Ishikawa diagrams, Pareto diagrams, and 5-why techniques. The results were generally identified and diagnosed thirty-five causes of the construction project failure; however, only twenty-three of the causes were the most important. The majority of causes (thirteen causes) were obtained by using executing and monitoring project management process group. Seven causes were obtained by using contract project management process group. In addition, fewer causes (only three causes) were obtained by using initiation project management process group.

ERP Project Success Perception by the Adopters

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemyslaw Lech
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Time Budget ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Enterprise System ◽  
System Implementation ◽  
Project Failure ◽  
Business Outcome ◽  
Failure Factors

The purpose of this paper is to determine how the context of the deviations from the planned budget and/or schedule affect the success perception of the project in the eyes of the project management and top management of an adopting organization on a basis of three Enterprise System implementation projects, none of which has met the time-budget criterion. The projects are evaluated against the lists of project failure factors commonly cited in the literature. The results of the study show that deviation from the initially planned schedule and/or budget does not affect the success perception, providing that the project was properly managed and its business outcome is achieved.

scholarly journals E-Government Information Systems (IS) Project Failure in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Nyansiro ◽  
Joel S. Mtebe ◽  
Mussa M. Kissaka
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Gap Analysis ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
Project Failure ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Synthesis Design ◽  
Project Failures ◽  
System Requirements

E-government information systems (IS) projects experience numerous challenges that can lead to total or partial failure. The project failure factors have been identified and studied by numerous researchers, but the root causes of such failures are not well-articulated. In this study, literature on e-government IS project failures in developing-world contexts is reviewed through the application of qualitative meta-synthesis, design–reality gap analysis, and root cause analysis. In the process, 18 causal factors and 181 root causes are identified as responsible for e-government IS project failures. The most prevalent of the 18 causal factors are found to be inadequate system requirements engineering (with 22 root causes), inadequate project management (19 root causes), and missing or incomplete features (16 root causes). These findings can be of use to future researchers, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to identify methods of avoiding e-government IS failures, particularly in developing-world contexts.

scholarly journals An Empirical Case Study and Approach on TQM in a Stipulated Construction Firm

2021 ◽  
Vol 1197 (1) ◽  
pp. 012037
Author(s):  
P. Mohan Anjani Kumar ◽  
Ashwin Raut
Keyword(s):  
Market Competition ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Construction Firms ◽  
Construction Company ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Construction Firm

Abstract In comparison to other sectors such as manufacturing and service, the construction sector is perceived to impose a low value on performance. TQM is implemented by very few construction companies in this world, and the top-down technique is widely used. To incorporate TQM in a company, top management must contribute to a “bottom-up” strategy by creating a “Quality Circle.” According to this study, the first and most important criteria for introducing TQM in construction firms is top management involvement, other obstacles that companies must overcome include a lack of education, lack of confidence, lack of common trust, a lack of skilled staff, market competition, weak strategies and requirements, bad behavior, the availability of experienced field managers, and so on. In this approach, one case study is analyzed to show how Total Quality Management (TQM) is efficiently applied by using a “bottom-up” approach and creating a PMO in an Indian construction company. After some study of the Pareto graph, and identifying root causes using Root Cause analysis, experience is applied in the provided studied construction firm to apply TQM. Following that, a method for applying TQM in a building company is suggested.

Application Of Electron Microscopy To Automotive Finish Defect Analysis

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-259
Author(s):  
Martin J. Mahon ◽  
Patrick W. Keating ◽  
John T. McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
Polymeric Materials ◽  
Plant Management ◽  
Defect Analysis ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Cutting Out ◽  
Foreign Materials ◽  
Automotive Finish

Coatings are applied to appliances, instruments and automobiles for a variety of reasons including corrosion protection and enhancement of market value. Automobile finishes are a highly complex blend of polymeric materials which have a definite impact on the eventual ability of a car to sell. Consumers report that the gloss of the finish is one of the major items they look for in an automobile.With the finish being such an important part of the automobile, there is a zero tolerance for paint defects by auto assembly plant management. Owing to the increased complexity of the paint matrix and its inability to be “forgiving” when foreign materials are introduced into a newly applied finish, the analysis of paint defects has taken on unparalleled importance. Scanning electron microscopy with its attendant x-ray analysis capability is the premier method of examining defects and attempting to identify their root cause.Defects are normally examined by cutting out a coupon sized portion of the autobody and viewing in an SEM at various angles.

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