ENG93000 - Engineering Management for a Sustainable Future

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Engineering Management For Sustainable Future

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Introduction
Sustainable Engineering Management is an essential aspect that ever manager need to have
regardless of the field of specialization (Alias, Zawawi, Yusof and Aris, 2014: p.65).
Considering the environmental management for a sustainable future, there are specific
management skills that the engineering leaders need to have to achieve sustainable
engineering management (Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017: p.98). The first task the engineering
managers need to implement is developing a manageable and a realistic strategy (Chardine-
Baumann and Botta-Genoulaz, 2014: p.140). When an organization has a project, the first
thing is to come up with goals of that project, from there the engineering managers develop
specific strategies outlining the parties and tools that the plan needs to achieve the project
goals. The second task is to go for sustainable partners and vendors. Every organization
expects quality project based on the budget, to make sustainable engineering management
(Gmelin and Seuring, 2014: p.6); the engineers need to seek the help of manageable partners
and sellers. Another important thing apart from the above issues is to do an assessment on the
current state of the project or the organization. After the evaluation, the engineers will be able
to identify the opportunities in the field and the areas that need some improvement (Epstein,
2018: p.89). However, when doing an assessment, they should check on cost savings and the

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overall profit the opportunities will have to the company or the field they are working within
the company. On the other hand, another vital task is to communicate the sustainable
strategies the engineers have to other stakeholders (Giannakis and Papadopoulos, 2016:
p.460). For instance, the employees who should be working on the project, the suppliers and
the sponsors of the project. The i0mportance of communication in achieving sustainable
engineering management is that other people would give out their views concerning various
approaches of managers (Luthra, Garg and Haleem, 2015: p.350). From other stakeholders’
opinions, the managers can get essential tips to improve n their management skills, hence
realizing the goal of a project and the company.
Journal Article 1
According to Alias, Zawawi, Yusof and Aris (2014), the critical success factors are the major
aspects that often determine the performance of the projects. Before initiating any projects, it is
highly recommended for the project managers to gauge the critical success factors of the
concerned projects. Often the decision-making in the project management process is difficult in
nature. Wrong decisions often lead to bad performance of the projects and wrong decisions are
made due to insufficient assessment of the critical success factors related to the projects. The
critical success factors in terms of project management can be considered as the conditions,
characteristics and variables that can have an impact on the quality of the project. Moreover,
project management is very important in terms of engineering projects as the major objectives of
the project is to add value for the nation and the critical success factors are the most reliable