Managing Employee Relations

Questions: 1. what you think Project Management is. 2. Make a list of three activities that you do each day or each week which can be regarded as a Project 3. what is Project Success? 4. Do you know of any projects that are successful? Describe one? How is it successful? 5. Is Project Success the same as Project Management? Why? 6. Make a list of three problems of Project Management? 7. Can anyone be a good project manager? Do you think that functional managers would make good project managers? 8. Project managers are usually dedicated and committed to the project. Who should be looking over the shoulder of the project manager to make sure that the work and requests are also in the best interest of the company? Does your answer depend on the priority of the project? Answers: Ans 1. Project management is the task that starts with project initiation and ends with closure of the project (Walker 2015). Project management mainly includes five different tasks and those are initiation of project, planning for project, execution of project, monitoring and controlling the project and closure of project. Ans 2. The three activities are as under: Reading newspaper daily Collecting news related to the current economic status of the country Note down the important news in diary and build the source of information for the research paper Ans 3. Project success is the completion of the project within required time and budget (Sivasubramanian et al. 2015). At the same time, the users accept the result of the project and the project includes minimum scope for change. Along with these, the completion of the project does not affect the corporate culture. Ans 4. The business diversification project of ITC, 2012s London Olympics project and Policy research project done by Dr. Eugene Gholz in 2015. 2012s London Olympics project included the construction of Olympics stadium with 80000 seats at Stratford in East London. The project was done by FTSE-100 construction group Balfour Beatty. The project was completed within the time and budgeted cost and it was worth 6 billion. The project became successful due to the proper planning and execution. At the same time, the monitoring and controlling activities were proper. Ans 5. Project success and project management is not same but both are related. Project success is the result of proper project management. This is because a project becomes successful only when the planning, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of project are done correctly (Verzuh 2015). Ans 6. Three problems of project management are as under: Lack of proper understanding of the project Lack of co-ordination Lack of control Ans 7. Any person can be a project manager if the person includes the following characteristics: The person can develop the plan for project The person can execute the projects plan The person can change the plan as per the requirements A functional manager can be a good project manager if he or she has the above characteristics and he or she can deal the project with credibility, accessibility, priority and visibility (Faria et al. 2015). Ans 8. In order to make sure that the tasks done by the project manager are in the best interest of the company, the owner or the higher authority of the company should looking over the shoulder. The project manager must give the priority to the interests of the client as well as company (Svejvig and Andersen 2015). Reference List Ballantyne-Rice, M., Chopp, K., Evans, L., Ho, V., Hsiung, W.P., Simon, M.A., Wu, K. and Donnelly, T.T., 2016. A Client-Centered Community Engagement Project: Improving the Health and Wellness of Older Adults in an Assisted Living Facility.Journal of Gerontological Nursing. Faria, J.M.P., Arajo, M.M.T.D. and Tereso, A.P., 2015. Project management under uncertainty: a study on solution methods. Fernandes, G., Ward, S. and Arajo, M., 2015. Improving and embedding project management practice in organisationsA qualitative study.International Journal of Project Management,33(5), pp.1052-1067. Gaudenzi, B. and Christopher, M., 2016. Achieving supply chain Leagilitythrough a project management orientation.International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications,19(1), pp.3-18. Heldman, K., 2015.PMP: Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide: Updated for the 2015 Exam. John Wiley Sons. Lee, L., Reinicke, B., Sarkar, R. and Anderson, R., 2015. Learning through Interactions: Improving Project Management through Communities of Practice.Project Management Journal,46(1), pp.40-52. Schwalbe, K., 2015.Information technology project management. Cengage Learning.