Abstract
The purpose of this research was to plan an approach to a project framework that integrated a model for sustainability and CSR, with the process groups of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) standard, in its application to the training of a group of students in Project Design, Management, and Evaluation. The integration was justified by the scarce explicit references to sustainability and CSR found in traditional project management guidelines, norms, and standards. The new framework was used to structure a Sustainability Management Plan, which made it possible to incorporate sustainability criteria throughout the life cycle of the training project. The training proposal in Project Design, Management, and Evaluation was chosen, among several alternatives, by a multi-criteria selection process (fuzzy AHP) in the context of project scope management. The results reveal a great heterogeneity among the models and the lack of a base of key indicators in sustainability and CSR measurement tools as well as of explicit references to sustainability in project management standards. It is therefore necessary to develop a Sustainability Management Plan that can be introduced in the Project Management Plan and thus influence the strategic and operational guidelines of the Institution.
Highlights
The planning was based on a sustainability model and implemented in a standard approach with a process focus, which facilitated the identification of equivalencies with the process groups of the 6th edition of the PMBOK® project management standard
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to the present and to past situations, issuing periodic reports on its actions, while sustainability refers to the future evolution and durability of its actions over time
It is possible to obtain an equivalence matrix between a standard approach based on continuous improvement and integrating the performance indicators for sustainability, with the process groups of the PMBOK Guide 6th edition (+3)
Summary
Since the emergence of the concept of sustainability in 1987 and as a result of the report “Our Common Future,” which defined sustainable development as that which “guarantees the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” [1], there has been a multitude of definitions, uses, and nuances of the term, influenced by the policies and social and academic movements that took place during the last third of the 20th century [2]. In spite of all these meanings, the origin of sustainability should be placed at first in the environmental context [3] as a response to the impacts derived from the intensive use of natural resources in productive activities. Sustainability 2021, 13, 10880 of natural resources in productive activities. The term took on an economic dimension from the business point of view, making growth compatible with the environment, creating value for different stakeholders [4]
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