Description
Aims/objectives:
To understand in the context of projects and project-driven enterprises:
- Forms and structures of temporary and longer-term organisations arising in projects and project-based enterprises
- Power, conflict and communication management issues arising in such organisations
- Project leadership and team roles
- Project-based learning and the role of project management support offices/centres of excellence
Learning outcomes:
After taking this module you should be able to:
- Analyse:
- The nature and alternative structures of project-based organisations
- The opportunities and problems arising in the operation of organizations in respect of power, authority, stakeholders, excluded groups (including issues in conflict and communication)
- The development, leadership and functioning of project-based teams
- The processes of creating, diffusing and enlarging project-based knowledge
- Understand, select, develop and apply appropriate strategies, tools, techniques, processes and practices for managing and optimising project-based organisations (including the creation and management of project management support offices and centres of excellence)
- Apply this knowledge to selected case studies
Seminar content may include:
- Structure
- Effective communications and race and gender issues
- Project leadership
- Case studies in leaders’ roles, team formation and conflict
- Excellence in project management
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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