Main description:

Shadow Working in Project Management aims at contributing to our knowledge of all things unconscious and irrational in our behaviour. It takes the form of an empirical research, and therefore addresses mostly the tools and techniques available to get in touch with Shadow aspects of self and collective, to recognize how it manifests, how it can lead to conflict, and ways to address it.

From that perspective, it advances on to question the underlying beliefs of current management practices. It explores as well the inherent need for control in projects, being those of a professional nature, or other ventures. It challenges the strength of the concept of the "rational man" and its protagonism.

Joana Bertholo's work explores the role and nature of the Shadow in the context of projects and their management, with an emphasis on techniques to address it. Despite being directed to managers and dedicated to the analyses of the managerial discourse, the tools and processes it proposes have universal relevance, based on the fact that the Shadow is everywhere, within everyone, from the individual to the global scale.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Professor Dr Louis Klein

PART ONE: THE LEARNING JOURNEY

Introduction

Chapter 1 - The Learning Journey

PART TWO: THE SHADOW OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Chapter 2 - The Shadow of Management Studies - A Literature Review

Chapter 3 - The Shadow of Project Management

Chapter 4 - Integrating the Shadow of Project Management

PART THREE - CONCLUSIVE THOUGHTS

Chapter 5 - Main Shadow-spheres found in project management culture

Chapter 6 - Account on a personal crisis: was Shadow-work worth the hard-work?

Chapter 7 - Conclusive thoughts

Index