Proceedings (National Conferences of The Society of Project Management)
2010.Spring
Session ID : 1404
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1404 Facilitating collective-collaborative production activities : A case study of a narrative approach
Masako Itoh
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A complex and large size project can be conceptualized as a heterogeneously mixed collective and collaborative production activity. Project managers are required to author a collaborative sense-making drama for employees and their organizations. If we consider a project work place as a drama stage which consists of multiple local stories, the project manager has to be knowledgeable about and skillful at director's behavior like making scenarios, role formations, translating and explaining the roles to performers, and so on. Though the skill is learned from long-term guided participations and informal story-telling activities in workplace, the learning environment has been collapsed. In order to facilitate learning the authoring skill and promote collaborative production activities this study applied a method of narrative approach in which role subjects of mixed organizations told their "Mie (an interpretive landscape of a set of events)" stories each other.
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