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If we consider project as a temporary organization, based on the Organizational theory we can also consider it as a human community. In this regard and with attention to major sociologists’ confirmation, communication plays very important role in any human community and with the same importance in projects with multicultural context. In this framew...
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... İşletmenin önceki performans endeksleri dikkate alınarak düşük ve yüksek performanslı iki proje takımının iletişim özelliklerinin karşılaştırmasına yönelik gerçekleştirilen bir araştırmada aynı iletişim tarzına sahip bireylerden oluşan takımın performansının, bir birilerinden farklı iletişim tarzlarına sahip bireylerden oluşan takımın performansından daha yüksek olduğu görülmüştür (Sarhadi, 2016). Bu sonuçlar da takımlardaki iletişim biçimlerinin takımların etkinlik ve verimliliğine etki eden faktörlerden birisi olduğunu doğrular niteliktedir. ...
Bu kitapta öncelikle liderlik kavramı üzerinde durularak liderliğin önemi vurgulanmış, klasik ve çağdaş anlamda liderlik yaklaşımlarına kısaca değinilmiştir. Sonrasında ise takım kavramı, etkili takımların sahip olması gereken özellikler, takımlara neden ihtiyaç duyulduğu ve takımın başarısında etkili olan faktörlere değinildikten sonra takım liderliği kavramı ele alınmıştır. Bu çerçevede takım liderliği için en etkili liderlik tarzı olarak fonksiyonel liderlik yaklaşımı önerilmiştir. Fonksiyonel liderlik yaklaşımı ile başarılı takımların ortaya çıkmasında etkili olan durumsal koşullar ve süreçler açıklanarak bir model ortaya konulmuştur.
... For the determination of the success or failure of a project to be feasible, there must be good communication in the team. When the members communicate frequently, trust and consequently the relationship between them are strengthened, which means an increase in their performance (Júnior & Chaves, 2014;Sarhadi, 2016). ...
Communication is crucial. Several authors emphasize the role of the project managers’ communication with teams, and the importance of the project management teams’ on the success of projects. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of the communication styles of the project managers’ on the teams’ motivation and con-sequently on the success of projects. Therefore, the literature was reviewed and exploratory research was developed using a qualitative methodology (content analysis of eight semi-structured interviews). A conceptual framework was developed. The results suggest that communication style and leadership are related and impact teams` motivation and consequently on projects’ success.
... • Designing an appropriate communication strategy based on the communication styles of project stakeholders (Sarhadi, 2016) is a critical step to experiencing a meaningful project. ...
Ethical aspects of stakeholder behavior can have a wide range of implications for other areas of project management. This research critically reviewed project ethics under the philosophical paradigm change from modernism to late modernism, which led to a flexible and realizable ethical framework based on Levinasian and Nietzschean moral psychologies. A qualitative approach was adopted through a multiple-case study to confront the theoretical framework with the empirical world, evaluate its authenticity, and obtain a better understanding of its challenges. Research results showed that stakeholders’ unconscious desire for existential meaning can provide considerable potential for dealing with ethical challenges.
... Previous studies indicated that participation and communication in human relationships are extensively related to each other (Dalcher, 2016;El-Saboni et al., 2009;Sarhadi et al., 2018;Tai et al., 2009;Turkulainen et al., 2015). Based on Habermas's (1984) communicative action theory (Sarhadi, 2016), the power-oriented relationship can be considered a reverse form of consensus-based communication in human relationships. The current research provides empirical evidence on the power-oriented relationship within stakeholder theory and explores the interaction of this agent-based behavior with its structural reasons under the new theoretical perspective. ...
The feasibility process of public construction projects is under the influence of stakeholders, who give direction to public resource allocation. Therefore, the analysis of stakeholders in this process is critical. An inductive qualitative approach was adopted using the grounded theory method to provide a theoretical explanation of stakeholders’ behaviors. Under the insight of structuration theory, the results indicated that the challenges are derived from various interrelated factors, leading to the emergence of improper participation as a macro-structural phenomenon with multilateral interaction with a power-oriented relationship as a micro behavior in the feasibility process at the agency level.
... Therefore, the most promising option for a digital transformation and equipping of the management decision-making process with tools is middle management. Likewise, it should be noted that how promising this transformation is grows exponentially for project work teams [32]. The universal objective is to create a temporary work team to carry out project activities that have a predictable and conditionally predictable result and a recognizable, limited duration. ...
This paper examines a new approach to defining the task of personnel management in the digital age, taking into account the fundamental changes in internal communications stemming from an increasing use of digital platforms such as intranet, blogs, bulletin boards, instant messaging, and social networking sites. Personnel social media presence plays internal communication roles and thus relates to technologies of social profile analysis regarding employee interaction within the digital economy. The research aims at examining the task of personnel management based on data deriving from social media, for instance social networking sites and other social media tools, with the development of a relevant model for personnel management assessment. It could be shown that communication becomes one of the important aspects of personnel management, which consists of, i.e., human resources planning, recruitment, onboarding, assessment of individual work effects, as well as staff training, rewarding and motivating employees. Effective communication is a prerequisite for carrying out the above-mentioned tasks and performing work effectively. This means that the digital management of personnel can be viewed as a complex task, assuming that organizations operate less by using any formal connections and more by instilling in employees such feelings as feeling inspired, technologically advanced, and proud (on the basis of social media analytics). This paper presents theoretical foundations for developing a model for personnel management with consideration of the distinct employee features based on social media data and included in the assessment process. This allows the same approaches to be used for future research and modeling for assessing team effectiveness. In this paper, a methodological and instrumental solution to the current problem of creating the most effective work team in a digital ecosystem is proposed. The tools proposed to make it possible to create the most potentially effective work team based on the automated processing of natural information contained online on social profiles of potential members of the work team. At the same time, the level of communication compatibility acts as the criterion for the potential effectiveness of the work team. This is an innovative solution for the existing method of managing personnel.
... Communication styles refer to the tendency of individuals to communicate using specific patterns or rules [11]. Communication styles are all the characteristics of individual communicative action [10]. Communication styles can be used in daily life activities, such as teaching and learning [17], buying and selling [18], and information sharing. ...
... Communication style has not been discussed among the various factors that have been studied previously. Communication style is determined based on overall character of an individual communicative act [10]. Communication style is also an individual tendency to communicate using specific patterns and rules [11]. ...
Product-review videos can be a promising marketing method. The popularity of using videos as a medium for product reviews is evidenced by the number of channels that are used to provide product reviews on multiple platforms. Reviewers can use various strategies to attract wider audiences and make these audiences loyal to their channels. This study analyzes the effect of the reviewer's communication style on the audience's loyalty to the channels that provide product reviews, especially on the YouTube platform. Communication-style analysis is associated with hedonic and utilitarian motivation theory, which can be used to explain communication style effect on channel loyalty. This study uses a quantitative approach using questionnaire to obtain data. The data in this study are analyzed using covariance-based structural equation modeling in AMOS 21.0. The results show that communication styles (social-oriented and task-oriented), perceived transparency, perceived enjoyment, credibility, and channel engagement affect channel loyalty. Meanwhile, the informativeness factor does not affect channel loyalty. This paper will also discuss the theoretical and practical implications of the study.
... Ding et al. (2017) outlined a social identity approach linking transformational leadership as an underlying factor leading to employee turnover. Sarhadi (2016) further affirmed that a team's communication style has an influence on its performance and work outcomes. Tyssen et al. (2014a) and Aga, Noorderhaven, and Vallejo (2016) suggested that project success is highly influenced by leaders' interpersonal communication, and that employee turnover will increase when communication is inefficient. ...
... It is one of the major communication styles that spur motivation and satisfaction among subordinates (LaBelle, Matthew, & Keith, 2013;Lech, 2016). A supportive communication style basically consists of listening attentively, and making decisions deliberately without using a power differential (Sarhadi, 2016). Leaders who adopt a supportive communication style are concerned about meeting and understanding the needs of team members and adding values to a project team (Park & Lee, 2014). ...
... Although the communication styles of leaders differ with project teams, communication stands as a pillar of project team success (Kuria, 2019;Zulch, 2014a). The diversity of leader communication style still occupies a central place in building a high-performance team (Sarhadi, 2016). Ng et al. (2006) suggested that sharing important information may frequently increase team absorption in their task because it helps them identify themselves as central parts of organizations. ...
This study explores how project managers effectively build trust through their communication styles to keep subordinates engaged and committed in work. We developed a research model for understanding the mediating role of trust from a relational view. The effect of leader communication style and its four facets—assertiveness, clarity, supportiveness, and verbal aggressiveness—on subordinate turnover intention and work engagement is explored. The model is tested based on the data collected from a survey of 200 part-time postgraduates who have been project team members. Results show that assertiveness, clarity, and supportiveness have significantly positive influences on trust, whereas verbal aggressiveness has an adverse effect on it. Trust is positively associated with the work engagement of subordinates and has a negative effect on turnover intention. This study contributes to the theory of leadership by implying that trust is a means through which leaders’ communication styles influence subordinates’ project outcomes.
... Most important identified challenges of R&D project in literature can be summarized as follows: -Not considering creativity and innovation as a significant part of the driving force of research and development project management [8,16] -Presenting the general models without considering the unique nature [13] and features of research and development projects and changing the complexity level of these projects over the project life cycle [17] -Focusing on the development of new products and disregarding the other issues such as human resources management [13] -Having no communications and appropriate recognition of organization on experts and researchers in the field of research and development [18,19] -Having ambiguity in the real value of the projects which are implemented [20] ISSN: 2233-7857 IJFGCN Copyright ⓒ 2020 SERSC -Understanding the required efforts for the management of technology complexities and multidisciplinary subjects in research and development projects [21] -Not selecting an appropriate investment project form research and development projects [22,23] -Having no appropriate resource allocation such as human resources, equipment, research spaces, and budget to the projects under implementation [3] -Paying insufficient attention to fundamental studies due to high risks and low profit margin by companies [24] -Losing the knowledge obtained from research and development projects (especially implicit knowledge) due to the short term nature of these projects and inappropriate conventional mechanisms [12,25,26] -Paying no appropriate attention to quality management in the process of research and development projects [27] -Having the stress between temporary organization and permanent organization due to the lack of power balance [21] -Emphasizing the quantitative methods and ignoring the qualitative aspects and complicated human aspects of the selection process of research and development projects [22,28] -One of the serious challenges in research and development projects is the stress between research and development projects manager and the active scientists in this field. In other words, creative and innovative freedom of scientists is placed in the limitations of time, cost, Etc. ...
One of the most important strategies in order to move toward a knowledge-based economy, decreasing different kinds of managerial and non-managerial challenges that organizations are faced, and also maintaining the current competitive advantages and creating new competitive advantages, is establishment and development of effective R&D departments. Although equipment, financial, and human resources are known among the most important factors in order to evaluate the rate of R&D departments' ability, all of these factors along with procedural and managerial weakness cannot provide value for corporation. In order to investigate more about this aspect of R&D projects, case study was adopted as our research method. In this regard, through comparison of theoretical achievements and current R&D process, its challenges by participating and a structural approach were identified and by using experts' comments were prioritized. In subsequent, strategies for dealing with identified challenges through some meetings have been designed and by presenting to experts have been authenticated. At last, based on achieved strategies, R&D project management process of E organization through collaboration with experts has been designed and by joint meeting with organizational stakeholders has been improved and tailored.
... Effective communication management is crucial for the success of construction projects, a critical skill for design professionals (Norouzi, Shabak, Embi, & Khan, 2015) and cornerstone function of project management (Sarhadi, 2016;Wu et al., 2017;Zulch, 2014). Conversely, ineffective communication has been identified as a source of conflict in construction projects (Jaffar et al., 2011;Mitkus & Mitkus, 2014) including communicative ineffectiveness in the form of poor documentation and lack of trackability (Lester, 2017). ...
Abstract Contemporary communication mediums in isolation have reached a technological plateau, proximal communication is no longer limited by spatial or technological constraints. However, integration of communication mediums and their application in pedagogy do not appear to receive the attention they deserve outwith marketing and social psychology research. This is to the determinant of AEC industries where the forefront of proximal communication extends to video conferencing and high latency sharing of open standard models. Underutilisation is not just a missed opportunity; it is the source of many cascading conflicts, trust issues and delivery failures in in AEC projects. Although effective communication will not resolve all problems, those associated with its absence are unnecessarily endemic. Through discussion of the antecedents of trust and the social presence principles that underpin effective communication, this paper proposes the next disruptive innovation in industry should be a paradigm shift in its approach to communication.
... Effective communication management is crucial for the success of construction projects, a critical skill for design professionals [29] and cornerstone function of project management [37,43,45]. Conversely, ineffective communication has been identified as a source of conflict in construction projects [19,27], including communicative ineffectiveness in the form of poor documentation and lack of trackability [23]. ...
As a result of progressive use of BIM in the AEC sector, the amount of diverse project information is increasing rapidly, thus necessitating interoperability of tools, compatibility of data, effective collaboration and sophisticated data management. Media-rich VR and AR environments have been proven to help users better understand design solutions, however, they have not been quite advanced in supporting interoperability and collaboration. Relying on capabilities of openBIM and IFC schema, this study posits that this shortcoming of VR and AR environment could be addressed by use of BIM server concept allowing for concurrent multiuser and low-latency communication between applications. Successful implementation of this concept can ultimately mitigate the need for advanced technical skills for participation in design processes and facilitate the generation of more useful design solutions by early involvement of stakeholders and end-users in decision making. This paper exemplifies a method for integration of BIM data into immersive VR and AR environments, in order to streamline the design process and provide a pared-down agnostic openBIM system with low latency and synchronised concurrent user accessibility that gives the "right information to the right people at the right time". These concepts have been further demonstrated through development of a prototype for openBIM-Tango integrated virtual showroom for offsite manufactured production of self-build housing. The prototype directly includes BIM models and data from IFC format and interactively presents them to users on both VR immersive and AR environments, including Google Tango enabled devices. This paper contributes by offering innovative and practical solutions for integration of openBIM and VR/AR interfaces, which can address interoperability issues of the AEC industry.
