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The document discusses culture and project management. It defines organizational culture as shared beliefs, attitudes, and values that influence behaviors. A project manager must be aware of cultural issues and consider decision-making processes, communication styles, and vocabulary differences between team members. Team challenges can include conflicting priorities and communication styles across cultures. Effectively dealing with conflict is important for project success, and managers should understand different conflict resolution approaches like avoidance, accommodation, competition, compromise and collaboration.

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Chapter 6

The document discusses culture and project management. It defines organizational culture as shared beliefs, attitudes, and values that influence behaviors. A project manager must be aware of cultural issues and consider decision-making processes, communication styles, and vocabulary differences between team members. Team challenges can include conflicting priorities and communication styles across cultures. Effectively dealing with conflict is important for project success, and managers should understand different conflict resolution approaches like avoidance, accommodation, competition, compromise and collaboration.

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Culture and Project

Management

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Culture and Project
Management
• Definition of Organizational Culture
• Project Manager’s Checklist
• Team Challenges
• Dealing with conflict

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Organizational Culture
• Shared beliefs, attitudes, values
• Behaviors that arise from the beliefs, attitudes and
values
• May be obvious or subtle

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Project Manager’s Checklist
• Decision-making—who makes the decision and what
processes are followed
• Communication
• Formality
• Medium
• Complexity
• Vocabulary and format— “Image”

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Team Challenges
• Individual identity
• Verbal and emotional expressiveness
• Relationship expectations
• Style of communication
• Language
• Personal priorities, values and beliefs
• Time orientation

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Dealing with Conflict
• Conflict is not a bad thing
• Problem-solving is a key activity for successful teams
• Understanding your own preferred approach and those
of your team helps in productive conflict resolution

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Five basic approaches to
conflict resolution
• Avoidance
• Accommodation
• Competition
• Compromise
• Collaboration

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Culture and Project
Management
• Organizational Culture means shared beliefs, attitudes
and values, along with related behaviors
• Project Managers need to be aware of cultural issues
• Team Members can also face challenges in cross-
cultural relationships
• Effectively dealing with conflict is a success factor for
projects—every project team must resolve differences
and make decisions

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