Reflect on the book, If Beale Street Could Talk written by Baldwin. Address these two points in your Discussion Board post:
Interpret the title of the book and explain what it means to you.
If your Beale Street could talk, what would it highlight? What story or stories would it tell a reader as it relates to social determinants of health? You may reflect on past and/or present experiences and encounters.
Sample Solution
Research has shown that an organisationâs culture directly impacts its bottom-line (Kotter & Haskett 1992 cited by Cooper, 2000). In projectised organisations, where the bottom-line is determined via the delivery of successful projects, this phenomenon can be a blessing or a curse (Ikeda, 2006), depending on whether the organisational culture is supportive of project management, or not. An organisational cultural unsupportive of project management, will actually adversely influence traditional, and proven, project management methodologies (PMI, 2013; Axelos, 2017), leading to not only failed projects, but also a number of other issues. The existence of a symbiotic relationship between organisational culture, project management and project success, means that project managers need to adapt to their environmentâs organisational cultural style, if they, and project management itself, are to survive in the projectised organisation. The former has taught the researcher that the management of organisational culture is a more valued skill than project management education. Alas, projectised organisations that do not support project management becomes a victim of its own culture: âThe bottom line for leaders is that if they do not become conscious of the cultures in which they are embedded, those cultures will manage themâ (Schein, 2004:23). Case study research will be used to identify this phenomenon in the researcherâs working environment, collecting both qualitative and quantitative data, to prove the hypothesis that there exists a critical relationship between organisational culture and project management. Secondary data will be collected from the literature study, and real-world case studies, to provide a proposed solution for the mitigation of this problem in the researcherâs working environment. Organisations accomplish strategic and business goals through the delivery of projects to accomplish tasks (Du Plessis & Hoole, 2006a; Swan, Scarbrough & Newell 2010). Projects are pr>
Research has shown that an organisationâs culture directly impacts its bottom-line (Kotter & Haskett 1992 cited by Cooper, 2000). In projectised organisations, where the bottom-line is determined via the delivery of successful projects, this phenomenon can be a blessing or a curse (Ikeda, 2006), depending on whether the organisational culture is supportive of project management, or not. An organisational cultural unsupportive of project management, will actually adversely influence traditional, and proven, project management methodologies (PMI, 2013; Axelos, 2017), leading to not only failed projects, but also a number of other issues. The existence of a symbiotic relationship between organisational culture, project management and project success, means that project managers need to adapt to their environmentâs organisational cultural style, if they, and project management itself, are to survive in the projectised organisation. The former has taught the researcher that the management of organisational culture is a more valued skill than project management education. Alas, projectised organisations that do not support project management becomes a victim of its own culture: âThe bottom line for leaders is that if they do not become conscious of the cultures in which they are embedded, those cultures will manage themâ (Schein, 2004:23). Case study research will be used to identify this phenomenon in the researcherâs working environment, collecting both qualitative and quantitative data, to prove the hypothesis that there exists a critical relationship between organisational culture and project management. Secondary data will be collected from the literature study, and real-world case studies, to provide a proposed solution for the mitigation of this problem in the researcherâs working environment. Organisations accomplish strategic and business goals through the delivery of projects to accomplish tasks (Du Plessis & Hoole, 2006a; Swan, Scarbrough & Newell 2010). Projects are pr>
