Rickaby, M;
Glass, J;
Mills, G;
McCarthy, S;
(2017)
Exploring alignment of personal values in a complex, multi-organisation construction project environment.
In: Chan, PW and Neilson, CJ, (eds.)
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference 2017.
(pp. pp. 94-103).
Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM)
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Abstract
The inherent complexity in construction projects is often attributed to their nature as a Temporary Multi Organisation (TMO), and as part of this, the heterogeneity of stakeholders in a TMO team is bound to influence project outcomes, including the increasingly important dimension of sustainability performance. According to values theory (pioneered by Schwartz and others), personal values are a determinant and predictor of attitudes and behaviours. Scholars who have applied this have begun to characterise the link between personal values and pro-environmental behaviours, but the mechanism through which personal values guide behaviour at the organisational/TMO level is not well understood. Here, a case study TMO (a major rail infrastructure project in the UK with a higher than expected sustainability performance) was used as an empirical setting, to explore this problem. The Schwartz Values Survey was used to derive insights on the role of individuals' values, group values, and their relationship to project performance in a TMO setting (n=176). A number of initial findings were derived, including an important point of tension around Schwartz's Self-Direction values category, which warrants further investigation in the context of pro-environmental behaviours on site.
Type: | Proceedings paper |
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Title: | Exploring alignment of personal values in a complex, multi-organisation construction project environment |
Event: | ARCOM 2017, 33rd Annual Conference of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 4-6 September 2017, Cambridge, UK |
ISBN-13: | 9780995546318 |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/archive/2017-Indexed-... |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This is the published version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | sustainability, Temporary Multi Organisation (TMO), personal values |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett Sch of Const and Proj Mgt |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10053302 |
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