vietnam market economy

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1. Abstract

According to the impact of market economy, requirements of the project

implementation also change from the appointment of contractors to the tender, from the

traditional management method to many advanced and flexible management methods.However, Vietnamese engineers actually lack their understanding and experience of the

project management, not meet the current requirements. The author has overview of the

situation of the project management and teaching project management in Vietnam in this

research. The author comes to the following conclusion that the project management is still

very much limited and underdeveloped. Thus, the teaching of project management should

be researched more to make specific and reasonable proposals.

2. Introduction

PM has been a popular concept all over the world, but the new one in VN. In the global

integration trend, VN must accept the rules of market economy. PM, especially in

construction is the basis to improve the competitiveness for enterprises in the dynamic

market economy. New concepts about PM can assist VNese engineers, architects and

managers to finish the project on time, on cost and high quality.


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In VN nowadays, construction industry has developed significantly. The most notably

is the increasing in size (scale?) of construction projects, the strict demand of project

techniques, the complicated and continuously changing interactions among interested

stakeholders and the more rigorous (higher?) requirement of VN authorities. In term ofconstruction projects, PM has still just been the cooperation of designs, bidders and

contractors into a general process (progress?). It causes lots of difficulties for VNese

bidders to participate in big (important, major, key?) projects.

VN is lack of PM human resources, who have thorough knowledge in this field.

Therefore, PM has been put into the curriculum of some major universities as well as some

public training centers. Nonetheless, the outcomes are still limited. In future, PM will

always have to deal with unpredictable risks such as inflation, energy shortages, the globalchanges, new technologies and natural disasters so there is the essential requirement to

understand and use effectively the PM technology. Teaching PM at this moment requests

the higher level of not only the methods but its objectives as well.

3. Current status of PM and teaching PM courses in Vietnam

3.1. Current status of PM in VN

The period before 1986, all the projects had came from capital budget, conducting in

traditional method: the governmental clients with their dependent partner representatives.Designers and contractors were appointed before construction stage, without tender. There

were totally no supervision and PM. The impacts were judged by specified objectives

whether it met the proposed plan or not. The criteria such as project costs, risks and quality

management ... have been hardly (rarely?) raised.

Since the Renovation (1986), PM has developed in all field, especially construction

industry. However, the current experience and knowledge advanced project management of

VNese engineers do not meet the age requirements. The sharp example is the fact that most

of major projects are managed by foreign enterprises. Another is that some big projects

managing by VNese has some weaknesses, shortcomings and errors, leading to the impact

that the international investors and governments doubt at manageable abilities of VNese.


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Currently on the PM market, there are a lot of well-known foreign companies such as

Delta Company of America, CDW of the Netherlands, Japan's Nippon Koei have

managed key projects such as Ten Road, Heineken Beer Factory, Bai Chay Bridge They

tend to take up the major proportion of PM market for large and complex projects,requiring high technology and quality. The VN PM companies or functional organisations

focus on the domestic market of state investment, where foreign companies are not allowed

to participate in. Most of the local parties (companies) operate in this narrow market and

have no conditions to cope with new challenges in PM field. As a consequence, these

organisations cannot improve their skills, accumulated the experience and enhance their

competitiveness with foreign rivals when they participate in large projects.

The number of projects has increased, together with the development of constructionindustry. The high requirements of PM skills are required to be raised to a new step. The

foreign companies have advantages in terms of experience, technology, capital continued to

dominate over domestic companies. After Vietnam joined the WTO (2006), domestic

companies have lost their market share to foreign companies, so they have to deal with

other local as well as foreign enterprises at the same time and this issue has discouraged

them.

Another key point is that the manage skills is strengthened and accumulated whiledealing with real troubles. Major projects in VN are mostly undertaken by foreigners. In

general, although being aware of the foreign companies advantages, domestic companies

still apply passively available management methods instead of researching and using new

ones. As a result, it causes a major obstacle to these companies in their process of

expanding the scope of activities because the larger project scale is, the wider scope of

activities is. They would be confused in establishing their monitor and control systems.

Furthermore, there is not enough integration among the domestic companies to compete

with foreigners. Thus, the gap between local and foreign organisations has been more

widen.


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3.2. Current status of teaching PM courses in Vietnam

There is totally no teaching and training PM solely in Vietnam (they mix with other

program). The specialised engineers implement project work without intensive training. It

makes PM work difficult due to lacking of the excellent human resources. Some

Vietnamese well-trained in foreign countries has came back to VN, but they try to find a

job at foreign companies due to higher salary and better work conditions. University of

Transportation has established the project management department but not yet graduated

students. There are some short training courses with limited results. This shortfall at VN

makes the teaching and learning PM demands become essential and imperative. VN

government has legislated that Pmers need the certification that they already study in PM

courses, organised by the licensed training organisation.

Here are some other university teaching PM and construction PM:

1/ University of Civil Engineering (Hanoi): teaching PM at the Faculty of civil and

industrial for under and post graduated students, and some extra short course for

certification.- i hc Kin trc H Ni: Khoa xy dng dn dng v cng nghip v Khoa qun l

th c dy mn qun l d n cho sinh vin trnh i hc v cao hc.

- Hc vin cn b qun l - B Xy dng: thng xuyn t chc cc kha o to ngn

ngy v qun l d n cho cn b cng chc cng nh theo yu cu bn ngoi.


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- i hc Giao thng Vn ti H Ni: c B mn d n v qun l d n thuc Khoa

cng trnh, o to chuyn ngnh qun l d n vi thi gian hc l 5 nm v cp bng k

s qun l d n. y c th coi l ni duy nht ca Vit Nam hin nay o to chuyn

ngnh qun l d n, ch khng phi ch dy n l mt mn hc qun l d n nh nhngni khc.

- i hc Bch khoa thnh ph H Ch Minh: dy mn qun l d n ti Khoa xy

dng cc trnh i hc v cao hc.

- Cc c s o to khc: c rt nhiu c s o to nh nc, t nhn v quc t c t

chc cc kha o to ngn ngy v qun l d n xy dng, cng vi vic cp chng

nhn hc qua kha hc qun l d n. Ngoi ra cc trng i hc nc ngoi cng c

kt hp vi trong nc t chc o to v cp bng qun l d n cho sinh vin ngi VitNam c tham gia hc tp. Thng thng cc kha hc kt hp ny s c mt thi gian hc

ti Vit Nam v mt thi gian hc ti nc ngoi.

4. Kt Lun

Qun l d n Vit Nam bt u c nhng bc pht trin mi, tuy nhin cha t

hiu qu cao. Cc d n ln, quan trng hu ht do cc cng ty nc ngoi m nhm.

Cc b phn qun l d n trong nc khng c kh nng cnh tranh vi cc cng ty

nc ngoi v nhiu mt: kinh nghim, cng ngh, ngun vn v cn bc l nhiu yukm, hn ch, nht l trong cc d n ln, i hi cht lng cao.

Nhn thc c tm quan trng ca qun l d n, vic ging dy mn hc qun l d

n c quan tm. Mt s trng hc v c s o to ti Vit Nam t chc cc

kha o to v ngnh qun l d n v qun l xy dng. Nhng t c hiu qu

mong i, vic ging dy qun l d n cn phi c nhng i mi trong phng php,

ra mc tiu mi p ng i hi ca th trng. Trng i hc Kin trc H Ni cng

ang n lc i mi cng tc ging dy ni chung v ging dy mn hc qun l ni ring

c tt hn, hiu qu hn. Trong s c gng c ti nghin cu khoa hc cp trng

Nng cao hiu qu ging dy mn hc qun l d n cho sinh vin chuyn ngnh qun l

th ti trng i hc Kin trc H Ni ang c tin hnh v d kin hon thnh

trong nm 2010.


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