TITLE:
The Effectiveness of a Project Manager for Risk Management in a Career Education Project
AUTHORS:
Kazutsune Moriya
KEYWORDS:
Risk Management, Risk Mitigation, Proactive Risk Countermeasures, Career Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.8,
May
6,
2014
ABSTRACT: As a framework for
the effort to develop perspectives for work and promote autonomous career
development among young people, schools at all levels—from elementary schools
to universities—are introducing and conducting career education. One result of
these efforts has been that career education, which is supposed to be conducted
systematically while maintaining a certain level of quality, is currently not
functioning well. More specifically, the wide range of career education
curricula and the fact that the method of execution is completely up to each
teacher has led to inconsistent quality and a range of risks. To help address
this, and given that career education itself constitutes a project towards
achieving the education goals, this paper argues that using a project manager
in career education—a role that has been entirely left up to each teacher to
fill or provide—is effective in managing the risks involved in career education
projects and proactively providing countermeasures to offset these risks.