Project Management - People and Organisations

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Work effectively in project teams as a team member, manager or leader.
• Apply an analytical, reflective and critical approach to problem analysis and resolution.
• Report and present ideas in writing or orally.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the impacts of organisational dynamics on project success or failure.
• the roles of project leader and manager and their required competencies.
• the value of effective teamwork, participative approach and stakeholders’ management in projects.
• traditional and contemporary approaches to the management of organisational aspects of projects.
• the temporary nature, specific dynamics and potential diversities of project environments, characterised as: multinational, multidisciplinary, multi objective and multi stakeholder.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Analyse the effect of projects’ organisation structures, management and leadership in project success.
• Critically analyse projects’ contexts, challenges and dynamics considering the pluralistic nature of projects and project organisations - regardless of their industry.

• Different project organisation structures
• Governance of project management
• Roles and responsibilities in project organisations
• Leadership and management of projects
• Effective teamwork
• Identification of project stakeholders and management of stakeholders
• Effective communication
• Negotiation and conflict resolution
• Organisational challenges of international projects and programmes
• Strategic project management and project success

Teaching and learning methods

The key knowledge and theoretical components will be delivered via lectures and supplemented with directed self-study, class discussions, case studies, team work and short presentations. Practical aspects of the theories will be explored further by inviting guest lectures from industry where possible.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Turner, R. (ed.) (2009). The handbook of project-based management: leading strategic change in organizations. London: McGraw-Hill.

Maylor, H (2010). Project Management. Harlow: Financial Times - Prentice Hall.

Gardiner, P. (2005). Project Management: A Strategic Planning Approach.. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

PMI (2013). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK guide). Newtown Square, Pa.: Project Management Institute.

APM (2012). APM Body of Knowledge.. UK: Association for Project Management..

Pinto, J.K. (2013). Project Management - Achieving Competitive Advantage. Essex: Pearson.

Frame, J.D. (2002). The New Project Management – Tools for an Age of Rapid Change, Complexity and other Business Realities. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Turner, R., Huemann, M., Anbari, F. & Bredillet, C. (2010). Perspectives on Projects. Oxon: Routledge.

Turner, R. (ed.) (2014). Gower handbook of project management. Farnham: Gower.

Shenhar, A.J. & Dvir, D. (2007). Reinventing project management – The diamond approach to successful growth and innovation.. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External