Title: Megatrends and ethics in future project management - how project leaders can benefit from their potential

Authors: Agnes Wittrich

Addresses: Faculty of Management, Comenius University in Bratislava, Odbojárov 10, 82005, Bratislava 25, Slovakia

Abstract: The article is a call for project professionals to recognise the potential of emerging megatrends for the further development of project management. It inspires project leaders to educate their ethical beliefs and organisations to provide the appropriate environment to enable formation of ethical sensitivity. The systematic literature review is applied as method for this theoretical study to show how the potential of megatrends, digitisation and ethical conduct can be used for the progress of the discipline. Outgoing from the review insights, the features of the future project management are captured. The impact degree of megatrends on project management processes may differ, but they form the framework which supports the formation of reliable predictions on the direction in which this discipline is moving.

Keywords: project management; digitalisation; megatrends; future; ethical conduct; project leader; ethical awareness; digital ethics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLC.2024.137498

International Journal of Learning and Change, 2024 Vol.16 No.2/3, pp.307 - 326

Received: 07 Aug 2022
Accepted: 12 Apr 2023
Published online: 21 Mar 2024 *

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