Project Management Professionalism Report: Analysis and Findings

This report delves into the multifaceted concept of project management professionalism, focusing on its interplay with social responsibility in both administration and procurement contexts. The report begins with an introduction and literature review, examining the controversies surrounding professionalism in public administration, emphasizing the importance of special skills, abilities, and knowledge. It explores the impact of social responsibility on professionalism and job tasks, particularly in procurement within both public and private sectors. The methodology section outlines the research approach used to study the relationships between social responsibility and operational work tasks, including the use of factor analysis. The results highlight the specific job tasks related to social responsibility in procurement. The conclusion emphasizes the significant differences between private and public procurement, which are rooted in social responsibility, and the need for further research to understand the connection between professionalism, social responsibility, administration, and procurement.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................2
Administration, Politics and Social Responsibility................................................................2
Social Responsibility, Professionalism and Tasks.................................................................3
Politics of Public Procurement...............................................................................................3
Methodology..............................................................................................................................3
Results........................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
This report will focus on the discussion about the professionalism as social
responsibility in administration as well as procurement in an organization. It seems difficult
for the public procurement experts to define their job or occupation what they are performing
on their respective field as a profession. Many experts have defined the term profession in
different ways. But most of them have referred the term profession as a base or infrastructure
of science aim with the purpose of service, on the basis of some knowledge which is proved,
which is used to be used in the kind of service of other people apart from what they are
performing (Thai, 2017).
Literature Review
Administration, Politics and Social Responsibility
Controversies has raised about the constitution of professionalism in public
administration, in the context of usage of any special skills, abilities or knowledge which are
basic to perform tasks for that position. It also helps to evaluate the way of approach the
public admiration can be improved as a profession, science, area of study or just a discipline.
It is contradictory to use the methods in order to achieve efficiency like unity of command,
specialization, organization by purpose, process, place or clientele which can be approved or
certified. It has been stated that the public administration on America cannot be fully
instrumental as there will be no identity of those instruments which will be used to accept the
administrative principles to accomplish the efficiencies required. The nature of laws should
be guided by the conduct of public affairs (Green, 2013). The professionals in both the public
and the private administrations are losing sight of administrational values like equality, life,
pursuit of happiness and liberty. According to the classic utilitarian view, the responsibilities
or the accountabilities of public interest as well as social responsibility must provide the
efficiency in production as well as supply of the goods and services, where there will
requirement for good production engineers and not any philosopher-managers. Both social
Darwinism and utilitarianism stay fixed in management thought where acknowledgement and
rewards are firmly positioned to the merit and performance, and the organizations compete
against each other in order to survive in the fast growing evolving industries. The particular
nature of the work finished by the experts as part of their job hugely commands the form and

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shape of the decision making processes linked to social responsibility as a whole (Steinfeld,
McCue and Prier 2017).
Social Responsibility, Professionalism and Tasks
The procurement or acquisition in the context of social responsibility includes both
the private and public sector acquisition by mixing the literature between the viewpoint of
social responsibility and professionalism from the public and private sector. The type of work
may help to point out the sources in order to perform as well as manage social responsibility
in public acquisition along with the private acquisition. The nature and type of works related
to the jobs present in the social responsibility helps to provide awareness into the nature of
work that may establish more professionalism in acquisition (Gelderman, Semeijn & Bouma,
2015).
Politics of Public Procurement
It can be stated that professionalism helps in the relation between the job tasks related
to operations, professionalism and social responsibility. Because of the harmony or rhythm
present in the provision of all services related to the government jobs, it is hard to see the
ways through which jurisdictions of procurement experts can be changed in the way that
could damage the acquisition company. The threats related to traditional politics like
potentially reducing the appropriation of an agency may generate more control and
responsibility from these same experts. Implicit or implied knowledge includes cultural and
political issues along with value orientations are the major aspects in the public sector. The
experts of public procurement need to assure the responsibility by balancing the number of
sources of authority which involves purchasing guidelines, board policies, civil service
regulations and public hearing requirements (Moulaert, 2016).
Methodology
This research points out the social relationships between social responsibility in
public acquisition and the operational work tasks. Experts from public procurement are
expected to contribute to the processes related to strategies by clarifying the meaning of the
good service by adjusting the diverse values of different deeper community cultures and
constituent groups. A set of 75 public acquisition jobs need to be taken in order to study the
relationships between social responsibility work tasks variables and a number of other work
tasks from the researchers (Steinfeld, McCue and Prier 2017).

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Results
The factor analysis technique is used in order to decide the potential sources required
for social responsibility in acquisition. It is hard to come to any conclusion from the mixed
methods approach followed in this research. The idea that social responsibility could be
encased in work tasks which could be measured has implications for both private and public
acquisition (Steinfeld, McCue and Prier 2017).
Conclusion
From the above study, it can be stated that the idea related to social responsibility
could be encased in work tasks which can be measured and possess associations for both the
public and private acquisition. There exists a major difference between the private and public
procurement which is likely to be anchored in the context of social responsibility. Thorough
researches need to be conducted in order to understand the linkage between professionalism
as social responsibility in administration and procurement in an organization.

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