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Experiencing Responsibility in the Context of Project
Management. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 192
The notion of responsibility evokes the meaning
associated with the
event or the expectation of having to respond or to
give account for
something, justifying one’s actions or omissions.
Experiencing
responsibility, one feels a compulsion to do or not
to do something,
which influences actions, attitudes and performances.
Responsibility
plays an increasingly important role in our daily
life at work. That
role is particularly evident in project management,
as its
surveillance-based management techniques, such as
project
planning and control tools, functionalise
responsibility through
disciplinary processes, as an attempt to control what
happens in a
project. The assumption underpinning those techniques
is that
holding people to account for the completion of their
tasks (the
passive form of responsibility), will influence those
people into
taking active responsibility for how they are
expected to perform.
Drawing on real experiences of participating in
management change
projects, this book demonstrates how more complex
work dynamics
emerge, associated with the diverse emotional
responses to the
experience of responsibility, such as shame, guilt or
pride.
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