After analyzing over seven hundred audit reports, the answers to the two questions were clear. Work was being won by other firms because they were able to price their services very low. However, in order to do so, they were reducing the scope of the audit to the bare minimum required by law. Their audit reports were, at most, three pages long – and that included the cover page and managing partner’s affidavit. In contrast, a performance audit with broader scope could yield a report 30 to 100 pages long. Second question, answered. As for the first question, that turned out to be a combination of audit team skills and scope (Nalewaik, 2013). And yet, the answers to both questions turned out to be more.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.4324/9780429449741-16
N. Busby
{"title":"The Value of Business Change Management in Projects","authors":"N. Busby","doi":"10.4324/9780429449741-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429449741-16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":274575,"journal":{"name":"Managing Projects in a World of People, Strategy and Change","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128782800","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 : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.4324/9780429449741-18
R. Hornby
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People live and act in various groups and are influenced by various formal and informal leaders: parents, teachers, managers, coaches, commanders, and so on. Their personal traits and qualities, their behavior and life style as the dominant parties, have a strong impact on people’s mentality and play a significant role in their personal development. Many factors influence on the psychological environment in the workplace, but the strongest one comes from the manager. The way the manager relates to subordinates affects the whole nature of business communication and largely determines the group morals and the psychological atmosphere in the working environment. If the manager does not project a positive image it automatically transmits into the relations between the team members. The working environment becomes stressful, people become less inclined to cooperate with each other, they feel uncomfortable and morally vulnerable. That's why managers should do everything possible to create an optimal psychological atmosphere in their respective production units.
{"title":"On The Psychological Aspect of Management","authors":"F. Voskoboynikov","doi":"10.4324/9780429449741-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429449741-5","url":null,"abstract":"People live and act in various groups and are influenced by various formal and informal leaders: parents, teachers, managers, coaches, commanders, and so on. Their personal traits and qualities, their behavior and life style as the dominant parties, have a strong impact on people’s mentality and play a significant role in their personal development. Many factors influence on the psychological environment in the workplace, but the strongest one comes from the manager. The way the manager relates to subordinates affects the whole nature of business communication and largely determines the group morals and the psychological atmosphere in the working environment. If the manager does not project a positive image it automatically transmits into the relations between the team members. The working environment becomes stressful, people become less inclined to cooperate with each other, they feel uncomfortable and morally vulnerable. That's why managers should do everything possible to create an optimal psychological atmosphere in their respective production units.","PeriodicalId":274575,"journal":{"name":"Managing Projects in a World of People, Strategy and Change","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116717685","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}
{"title":"The Project Manager and The Ethical Kaleidoscope","authors":"D. Long, Ngaire Hunt","doi":"10.4324/9780429449741-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429449741-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":274575,"journal":{"name":"Managing Projects in a World of People, Strategy and Change","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121526856","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 : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.4324/9780429449741-10
T. Bendell
It may be said that we live in depressing times. Our media is full of failing and failed organisations. From the financial crises to the BBC, from the US IRS or the Veterans Health Administration, to the UK Houses of Parliament, all around us is the evidence that our systems and safeguards are failing to protect the stakeholders from the slings and arrows of outrageous management, and an ever more demanding and volatile environment. Clearly, modern life has an enormous dependence on the integrity of human systems.
可以说，我们生活在一个令人沮丧的时代。我们的媒体充斥着失败和失败的组织。从金融危机到英国广播公司(BBC)，从美国国税局(IRS)或退伍军人健康管理局(Veterans Health Administration)，再到英国国会大厦，我们周围的一切证据都表明，我们的制度和保障措施未能保护利益相关者免受蛮横管理的打击，也未能保护利益相关者免受要求越来越高、越来越不稳定的环境的伤害。显然，现代生活极大地依赖于人类系统的完整性。
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Welcome to another title in the Advances in Project Management series. This volume endeavours to help practitioners by focusing on key areas emphasising capabilities, skills, attitudes, values and competencies that are required in order to successfully deliver projects, especially in increasingly change-ridden environments.
{"title":"Introduction: The Challenge of Change: Identifying New and Improved Theories for Project Management","authors":"D. Dalcher","doi":"10.4324/9780429449741-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429449741-1","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to another title in the Advances in Project Management series. This volume endeavours to help practitioners by focusing on key areas emphasising capabilities, skills, attitudes, values and competencies that are required in order to successfully deliver projects, especially in increasingly change-ridden environments.","PeriodicalId":274575,"journal":{"name":"Managing Projects in a World of People, Strategy and Change","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133437676","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}
{"title":"A Primer on Project Requirements Management","authors":"D. Dalcher","doi":"10.4324/9780429449741-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429449741-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":274575,"journal":{"name":"Managing Projects in a World of People, Strategy and Change","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134006356","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 : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.4324/9780429449741-14
Martin Samphire
{"title":"Project Governance","authors":"Martin Samphire","doi":"10.4324/9780429449741-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429449741-14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":274575,"journal":{"name":"Managing Projects in a World of People, Strategy and Change","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129702035","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 : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.4324/9780429449741-19
D. Dalcher
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