Pub Date : 2021-09-07DOI: 10.25219/epoj.2021.00112
F. Pargar, J. Kujala
The focus of this paper is on analyzing the value creation dynamics in the project implementation phase. By value creation, we mean the activities, processes, and strategies that the project team uses to increase benefits and/or reduce costs in the project. By synthesizing the literature on project management and system dynamics, we developed a simulation model with various structures underlying project dynamics. We considered four structures that influence project realized value: project team features, project characteristics, project controls and value creation processes, and project remedial actions due to ripple effects. The resulting model can systematically examine the interplay of value creation processes: work progression, rework, redesign and innovation, and rescheduling. We used the model to explain how the project team’s capability, motivation, and speed of making the best-for-project decisions ensure that the value creation goals are met. We simulate various scenarios that show the significance of the processes and their influencing structures on the realized value. The results present how endogenous and exogenous drivers of system behavior unfold over time and provide a richer understanding of the effect of various model structures such as project complexity and uncertainty on value creation.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-28DOI: 10.25219/epoj.2021.00111
G. Dewulf
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Pub Date : 2021-08-20DOI: 10.25219/epoj.2021.00110
J. Kaminsky
Socially sustainable infrastructure eliminates unfreedoms that reduce human choice and agency. These unfreedoms include the lack of clean energy, clean water, clean air, sanitation, mobility, information, or safe shelter, which collectively impact billions of people today, and the lack of a stable climate, which impacts everyone on earth and everyone who will be born in the coming decades. The built environment can be collaboratively built and collaboratively used to solve collective problems like these; in this sense, construction is a feminist project of creation. In this paper, I argue that the goal of all engineering projects and organizations must be a built environment that provides every person on the planet a greater ability to lead a life they value, recognizing that the diversity of those chosen lives is both the enabler and the outcome of what we pursue.
{"title":"The Social Sustainability of Infrastructure: Constructing for Justice","authors":"J. Kaminsky","doi":"10.25219/epoj.2021.00110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25219/epoj.2021.00110","url":null,"abstract":"Socially sustainable infrastructure eliminates unfreedoms that reduce human choice and agency. These unfreedoms include the lack of clean energy, clean water, clean air, sanitation, mobility, information, or safe shelter, which collectively impact billions of people today, and the lack of a stable climate, which impacts everyone on earth and everyone who will be born in the coming decades. The built environment can be collaboratively built and collaboratively used to solve collective problems like these; in this sense, construction is a feminist project of creation. In this paper, I argue that the goal of all engineering projects and organizations must be a built environment that provides every person on the planet a greater ability to lead a life they value, recognizing that the diversity of those chosen lives is both the enabler and the outcome of what we pursue.","PeriodicalId":14606,"journal":{"name":"issue 2","volume":"130 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89309156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-25DOI: 10.25219/epoj.2021.00109
Lindsey Walker, B. Franz
Workplace collaboration depends on communication and is critical in building design. For large, highly diverse teams, such as those found in architecture and engineering (A/E) who work under timebased deadlines, homophily—or the tendency to seek interactions with others of similar backgrounds and values—can play a role in how individuals communicate. Homophily is potentially damaging to teams that must coordinate information from a diverse membership, since communication may become less likely to occur across disciplines. Therefore, this research examines the extent to which a sampled A/E team exhibits homophily in their information exchanges across multiple communication media, when under the moderating effect of two different levels of time pressure. The study uses a social network analysis of the communication patterns in an 18-member studio team working for a national A/E firm located in the southeastern United States. The results show some evidence of homophily as a predictor of information exchanges when controlling for the hierarchical ties within the studio team and the physical distance between its members in the office. In a low time pressure work environment, face-to-face communication was more likely when members were of the same gender. This effect was not present when the team was under high time pressure, where face-to-face interactions were instead more likely between members of the same discipline. Homophily in phone communication was found in the generational similarity of team members, regardless of time pressure. There was little evidence that homophily was a predictor of email communication. These results have implications for the design of studio workplaces that support information-rich interactions, the assignment of individual designers to project teams that are more likely to interact with co-workers from different backgrounds, and organizational policy regarding the use of specific communication media based on the project schedule and time pressure.
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Covid-19 took us by surprise, sending us home to do home office; it forced companies, with no option to reply, to adapt and take action on a vital issue for the existence of life on our planet: To transform themselves into human and conscious companies. Emerging as a consequence, the need for a new type of leadership; so, companies are now at the centre of a paradigm shift that leaves them very vulnerable. If they focus only on facing the challenges, running the risk of not seeing the great opportunities -that the situation due to Covid-19 has revealed - that they will allow them to evolve and innovate from the management of human talent, developing innovative work methods that could substantially increase their productivity. Businesses are facing great challenges to survive, some are emerging victorious, but a large number of them have not been able to adapt and respond quickly enough. The key factors that are making the difference between a company that is getting ahead and another that is not, are its leaders. They are the ones that will determine the survival, growth or extinction of companies in the immediate future. This business context in which leaders play a starring role, opens up a range of work modalities.
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We live in a world where climate change, sustainability, human rights, cultural inclusion, and new technologies are on the agenda alongside traditional economic factors. We, therefore, need leaders who have that holistic outreach. They only get that if we change the traditional leadership education to reflect the new reality, we live in.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.35198/01-2021-002-0004
{"title":"Undergraduate Education of General Medicine Students in Addictology: Study protocol of a Pilot Research in the Czech and Slovak Republic","authors":"","doi":"10.35198/01-2021-002-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35198/01-2021-002-0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14606,"journal":{"name":"issue 2","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75808757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.35198/01-2021-002-0003
{"title":"Client’s Characterization in the Community Treatment Approach: Methodological Foundations and Evidence","authors":"","doi":"10.35198/01-2021-002-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35198/01-2021-002-0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14606,"journal":{"name":"issue 2","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76030824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.35198/01-2021-002-0006
{"title":"Validation of the Czech Modified Yale Food Addiction Scale in a Representative Sample of Adolescents: Connections with Body Mass Index and Impulsivity","authors":"","doi":"10.35198/01-2021-002-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35198/01-2021-002-0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14606,"journal":{"name":"issue 2","volume":"148 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76748217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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