Table 2 Stakeholder interests conflicting with the value-neutral project approach Stakeholder Stakeholder interests TTM - Directors, managers and operational level employees of the different business areas.
In one case (business incubator of Universidade Federal Fluminense (BIUFF)), there were two new visits (2013/2015), due to changes in managers and operational aspects.
The basic information of the interviewees is summarised in Tables 1 and 2. Table 1 indicates that the interviewees cover three main job levels: senior executives; middle managers; and operational staff.
Ms Linda Dorothy Jones, faculty senior projects manager and operational manager, physics department, Imperial College London, for serv higher education.
The plant design process takes place under resource pressure, and there are tensions between the needs of designers of different disciplines, managers, clients, and operational staff.
The valid participants comprised 44%% senior (executive) managers, 40%% middle managers and 16%% operational or junior management.
It can be noted here that, as a Delphi study norm, the second round survey is restricted to the participants of the first round Delphi survey (i.e. among the valid 90).1 In the second round the panel was made up of 52%% senior (executive) managers, 40%% middle managers and 8%% operational or junior management.
Their distinctive attributes justify the need of research towards the development of a specific model of success factors, to support top management and project managers in planning and operational management.
Representatives included three Permanent Secretaries, three Deputy Secretaries, three Departmental Managers, and six operational-level policymakers.
"Unions are unions, and they are trying to scare off the public by saying that things are unsafe when in reality it is untrue," said Vincent De Vroey, general manager for technical and operational matters at the association.
Stakeholders and managers (including policy-makers, commissioners, system developers, corporate and operational managers) were also approached and provided with a participant information sheet and a time for the interview was arranged if they agreed.
