| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R12466/01 |
| Title: |
Learning & Business Performance In Project Based Organisations |
| Principal Investigator: |
Morris, Professor P |
| Other Investigators: |
|
| Researcher Co-Investigators: |
|
| Project Partners: |
|
| Department: |
Manchester Civil and Construction Eng |
| Organisation: |
UMIST |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
26 March 2001 |
Ends: |
31 December 2001 |
Value (£): |
153,390
|
| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Manufact. Business Strategy |
|
|
| EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications: |
| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
Chemicals |
| Construction |
Electronics |
| Financial Services |
Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology |
| Energy |
|
|
| Related Grants: |
|
| Panel History: |
|
|
Summary on Grant Application Form |
|
The research begins by developing a model based organisational learning using insights derived from the literature in organisational learning and the Investigators' consulting and research experience in this field. This model incorporates measures relating learning both to project performance, project management performance and business performance. The model also explicitly refers to different types of projects and the way these characteristics affect these performance measures. The model is then progressively tested in the industrial partners project. The emerging Best Practice model is explicitly tested against contingency factors that affect different learning needs. Enterprise-wide learning characteristics that influence project-based learning are investigated. Aspects of team learning and the use of IT to facilitate turning knowledge into learning are examined. There is a strong process orientation with particular emphasis on the value, and nature, of gate reviews as opportunities for learning. The research is especially interested in questions about learning is captured, how it relates to performance, how lessons are articulated, how they are communicated, and how people are encouraged to learn and to relate their learning performance. At the end of the field period a revised Best Practice model is formulated. This is then tested through a questionnaire to be distributed via the Association for Project Management. There is finally considerable emphasis on dissemination of the resultant Best Practice model.
|
|
Key Findings |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
|
Potential use in non-academic contexts |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
|
Impacts |
|
| Description |
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk |
| Summary |
|
| Date Materialised |
|
|
|
|
Sectors submitted by the Researcher |
|
This information can now be found on Gateway to Research (GtR) http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk
|
| Project URL: |
|
| Further Information: |
|
| Organisation Website: |
|