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+title: "Sham project compliance behaviour: Necessarily masking the reality of project work from senior management"
+tags: []
+authors:
+  - Eric John Darling
+  - Stephen Jonathan Whitty
+doi: 10.1108/IJMPB-05-2019-0118
+eprint: https://www.emerald.com/ijmpb/article-pdf/14/2/497/956331/ijmpb-05-2019-0118.pdf
+issn: 1753-8378
+journal: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business
+month: 11
+number: 2
+pages: 497-519
+url: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMPB-05-2019-0118
+volume: 14
+year: 2019
+---
+# Sham project compliance behaviour: Necessarily masking the reality of project work from senior management
+
+## Abstract
+
+### Purpose
+
+The purpose of this paper is to examine a case of sham compliance performance reporting
+through the lens of Goffman's dramaturgy to reveal its dramaturgical structure.
+It makes a methodological contribution to comprehending "lived experience" accounts of project work,
+and adds knowledge concerning the behind-the-scenes motivators to sham behaviour in project work.
+
+### Design/methodology/approach
+
+Using an ethnographic lived experience account,
+an aspect of project work is reconceptualised as a collection of dramaturgical scenes.
+These scenes disclose issues beyond the bounds of the traditional project management discourse,
+and increase knowledge and appreciation of sham and performative behaviour in project work.
+
+### Findings
+
+Sham progress reporting can emerge in an environment where senior management's ignorance of project work
+creates unworkable binds for project staff.
+Moreover, the sham behaviour succeeds at its objective
+because senior management are vulnerable to false impressions.
+This situation raises ethical issues for those involved,
+and creates an overhead in dealing with the reality of project work.
+
+### Research limitations/implications
+
+Limitations to this study are due to the inherent nature of the ethnographic method,
+where it is difficult to recruit willing participants,
+particularly in terms of sham behaviour cases.
+This study has implications for research on sham and performativity behaviour in project work,
+as studies can benefit from the dramaturgical analysis and Goffmanesque scene illustration techniques
+that help give focus to particular aspects of social performance,
+and remove complexity from the narrative.
+
+### Practical implications
+
+The research provides practitioners with a way of discussing superfluous compliance process
+using additional lived experience vocabulary.
+This could reduce the undue pressure to behave unethically,
+and reduce the burden to create the extra impression management work.
+
+### Originality/value
+
+This study brings a voice to sham behaviour in project work.
+Continued ignorance of sham behaviour results in unnecessary work and unprofitable projects.
+Individuals could pay a price in terms of stress and well-being, not discussed.
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