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How Standard are Standards

其他書名	An Examination of Language Emphasis in Project Management Standards
出版	Project Management Institute, 2007
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fB7_ngEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Professional standards provide practitioners with a common knowledge that enables them to communicate more effectively about their profession. But those project managers who work globally often encounter significant communications problems with their peers because of the numerous project management standards that practitioners working around the world use as their primary knowledge source, standards that often emphasize different or conflicting professional competencies. This article examines a study exploring the differences in terminology and keyword emphasis used in the project management standards from five countries (Australia, Japan, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom), differences that affect how project managers define and practice project management. In doing so, it discusses four initiatives that are being implemented worldwide to establish an international standard for project management. It also overviews how national culture affects the way a project manager's interprets and applies practice standards. It then outlines the research study, detailing its methodology, analyzing its results, and identifying the keywords--from the five examined standards--which corresponded to the study's 48 topics and 18 categories. Accompanying this article is an appendix which lists the 150 keywords most emphasized in each of the five standards.