Thu, 21 April 2011
This month we have decided to look at some of the workplace challenges faced by the project management community by taking data from the Arras People Project Management Benchmark Survey and also the results of a discussion we recently hosted over on LinkedIn. Firstly we have a piece that looks at how age impacts the project management practitioners, in terms of outlook and opportunities in the workplace. Is ageism an easy call or is there more that older practitioners can do to open up new opportunities for themselves? We then take on the ever present question of gender and the imbalances reported by practitioners in the project management community. Again we ask if there is real discrimination based upon gender, or is it actually for many caught up in a broader set of circumstances? We then move on to discrimination in the workplace and share the responses from a recent LinkedIn discussion where we invited practitioners from around the world to share with us their personal experiences, both good and bad. The discussion is a real eye opener and we would still welcome further input from the wider community. Project management issues for hiring and workplace effectiveness tackle the person asking our Question of the Month, and we also take a look at Professor Knut Samset's Early Project Appraisal, through the lens of guest book reviewer John Greenwood. Check out the newsletter at http://www.arraspeople.co.uk/project-and-programme-management-resources/project-management-newsletter-from-arras-people/project-management-newsletter-from-arras-people-archive-2011/workplace-challenges-project-management-tipoffs/ |
