Case-based
Your work is characterized by not always following the rules and general more accepting new changes. Where are you most likely to be from in the world?
The Western part.
In project management, which culture tends to have a high level of successful teamwork capabilities?
Individualism or collectivism?
Collectivism
What is the lifecycle of Project Management?
Initiation, planning, execution and closure.
As a project manager, you develop a project road map in the initiation phase outlining the steps for completion of the project. What cultural value is this an example of?
Uncertainty Avoidance
Name 3 countries high in individualism?
United States, UK, Canada, Italy, Australia, New Zealand or Netherlands.
___% of all Project Management Offices (PMOs) close within just three years.
50
As a program manager, you are looking to start a new product development project. In order for the project to be as efficient as possible to maximize use of cultural strengths to aid successful project completion, you have decided to have 2 different project managers for initiation and for implementation project phases. You have 2 options for a project manager: A Canadian and a Greek.
Which one will you chose to lead initiation phase and which one will you choose to lead implementation?
Initiation: Canadian
Implementation: Greek
What are the five dimensions of national culture identified by Hofstede?
Individualism, power distance, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, and the Confucian dynamic.
Name the project manager who supervised the building of the St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome?
Michelangelo
If you were the project manager for a team with high uncertainty avoidance culture, should you or should you not have ‘laws and controls’ in place?
Yes (because in a high uncertainty avoidance culture, they use laws and controls to reduce uncertainty).
Is a team based work environment more likely to succeed in Asia or the United States?
Asia (due to high collectivism, America’s culture elevates the individual).
What percentage of project management specialists hold a certificate?
56%
Your approach to working on a project is characterized by careful, scrupulous planning done several weeks in advance. You also tend to spend a very considerable amount of your time on developing risk management strategies. Which project phase (implementation or initiation) will be you included in as the project manager?
Project implementation (where strict control, planning and risk management are needed – based on high uncertainty avoidance dimension).
What part of a project cycle is Feminity beneficial?
Initiation stage
What is it that no one wants; yet no one wants to lose either?
A law suit in project management.