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Sustainability in project management for large engineering projects in Africa
Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/73942 Sustainability in project management for large engineering projects in Africa Bogie, Jill ichelp@gibs.co.za Brooks, Scott UCTD Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2019. The purpose of this study was to explore the inclusion of sustainability in project management for large engineering projects in Africa. The sector in which this is explored is mining. This is an explorative, qualitative study with an interpretivist philosophy employed. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with project managers and project clients. 18 interviews were conducted with participants using an interview guide as an instrument. The findings showed that engagement with local stakeholders is paramount to the inclusion of sustainability and that this holds more importance than environmental considerations for mining projects in Africa. It also revealed the historic, inconsistent expectations around social responsibility between project managers and project clients as a limitation for accountability of social aspects of sustainability. Research limitations were that only large-scale projects were considered for this study and the results may not be directly transferable to smaller projects, the extent to which projects must spend on social endeavours to maximise project was not obtained and the organisational changes required to adjust to these findings need to be explored in more detail. Practical implications are that project management organisations must employ strategies and bring in capabilities to better enable them to attend to social issues pt2020 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA 2020-04-06T09:59:53Z 2020-04-06T09:59:53Z 2020/04/01 2019 Mini Dissertation Brooks, S 2019, Sustainability in project management for large engineering projects in Africa, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73942> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73942 en © 2020 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainability in project management for large engineering projects in Africa |
| title | Sustainability in project management for large engineering projects in Africa |
| title_full | Sustainability in project management for large engineering projects in Africa |
| title_fullStr | Sustainability in project management for large engineering projects in Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainability in project management for large engineering projects in Africa |
| title_short | Sustainability in project management for large engineering projects in Africa |
| title_sort | sustainability in project management for large engineering projects in africa |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73942 |