Human Resources And Project Management

The success of a project is ultimately the responsibility of the project manager and how well they can lead and organize their team. Leadership involves influencing people to achieve a common goal or shared objectives (Northhouse, 2007). Assigning the correct leadership style to a project may have a direct impact on a project success. Authoritarian, democratic, transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire are some of the leadership styles a project manager may have. Some of these may be more effective than others at completing projects on time. Morgan (2012) used

During the group work in the course it was apparent that a few traits stood out that would help a leader effectively lead the team. First, the leader must understand the project and be able to communicate that to the team members to improve commitment and ensure quality. Second, the team should have common goals as we set forth in our team charter. This provides measurable metrics which will help identify if the team is effective. Third, accountability is a priority from the very beginning. Everyone needs to know their part and the consequences if they are unable to meet the expectations set out by the group. Lastly, the leader must be able to create an environment of open communication to enable team members to give and receive feedback that will enhance the quality of the project.

Excellent, high quality patient care is much more than a saying used in many healthcare organizations. Translating these words into actions by every employee can be a daunting task. A culture of excellence must be initiated, and instilled into the core of a healthcare organization. Mission statements, visions, short term goals, and long term goals are useful objectives that facilitate a culture of excellence. As healthcare continues to evolve and increase in complexity each day, continuous reflection regarding organizational outcomes and patient outcomes should be performed.

Leadership skills are utmost important for today’s mangers as the Project is entirely dependent on them , because without a good leader, a project is unlikely to be completed successfully. These skills are

The first academic journal that I viewed was Leadership Styles of Effective Project Managers: Techniques and Traits to Lead High Performance Teams by Melissa DuBois, John Hanlon, Jodi Koch, Betty Nyatuga, and Nathan Kerr. A summary of the article, the authors analyze the important qualities of leadership and determine their positive impact, which can benefit project managers in any industry and, therefore, increase project success. They identified two leadership styles: Situational leadership and Transactional leadership. A few of these leadership traits include: team building, setting clear relations and roles between project members, openness, self-confidence, organization, and clearly defining project successes, revaluating when necessary. The traits of organization, managerial competence, emotional competence, openness to experiences, communication, inspiration, investigative, enterprising and entrepreneurialism, demonstrated the highest correlation with project success. These leadership styles and traits were examined and analyzed to determine the extent they contribute to the construction, execution, and closure of the project. The methods for locating and identifying resources, for this project, involved accessing electronic databases provided by the libraries at Drexel University. Each team member conducted a literature

The key to being a successful leader is tobbe diverse and trusting. As a leader, it is crucial to have a diverse perspective and understanding of both your followers and the ultimate goal of you company or organization. A leader cannot easily motivate a group to participate if there is not an understanding of each individual’s perspective and background. When this aspect is ignored the team member feels excluded from the project and loses motivation. It is also important to have a diverse perspective towards the goal or mission of the team because other important factors that may matter to the public could be ignored when the leader is too focused on one factor of the project. In order to actually be a leader, one must also have trust in its team. A leader cannot lead without any followers, therefore, the leader must trust its followers when it comes to taking care of specific task for the project.

The area of team leadership attracts a lot of attention in the modern world because of the need to assemble and deploy diverse teams for the completion of projects. The future of many corporations relies more and more on the kind of team leadership they have for their projects. This paper explores a number of facets that constitute effective team leadership.

As a group, we have learned that collaboration and responsibility sharing is important for the success of project teams. It is far too much for any one person bear the burden of by themselves. The work of a project Lead is intense, never complete, and deals with immense levels of detail. The personal qualities of reliability and

The project leader needs to understand strategies to promote success within the project team. They are responsible to ensure that the team works together and

As a part of my Graduate course, the subject on Project Leadership has so far helped me to gain a lot knowledge on many aspects of leadership concepts along with making me understand the classification of Leaders and introducing me to various successful approaches/tools needed for an aspiring leader to be effective and efficient.

The personality of the project leader is important and is critical to the project. The project leaders leadership will dictate if the project will be successful. The team has to believe in the manager and for this to happen the manager has to follow though with what they say they will do.

As most of us are aware the Fiedler’s contingency theory of leadership effectiveness is based on studies of group effectiveness, and relationships between leaders and organizational performance. Understanding teams and how to communicate while working on projects is a major dilemma when first starting a project. It is important for managers in the field to have the skills needed to successfully form and manage a team (Senaratne, S., & Gunawardane, S., 2015). Managers has to have an understanding of the difference between creating a group and successfully forming a team. Research shows that groups are created to share information and are mostly held accountable for their individual actions whereas a team tends to share one thought and are accountable and graded on the end result as a team (Robbins & Judges., 2003).

Leadership is multifaceted. There are some individuals that are great visionaries who excel at exciting change in people. Too often though, these same people lack the discipline or patience to deal with the day-to-day grind of managing. Likewise, there are other individuals who are very well organized and methodical but lack the ability to inspire others. The SBA also states that “managers are very good at maintaining the status quo and adding stability and order to our culture” while “leaders are very good at stirring people 's emotions [and] raising their expectations” (SBA 2009). Having the capability to maintain project stability while empowering those involved toward effective project completion, are invaluable traits to any successful project manager. By reinforcing these abilities effectively overtime, the project manager can better recognize the need to manage interfaces and sustain social networks throughout the term of production.

To work in the Human Resource management field you must maintain and improve the company by planning, implementing, and evaluating employee relations and human resource policies, programs, and practices. It is a challenging and yet rewarding field to work in. However, just like every business field, people who work in the human resource department face many challenges when it comes to discrimination.

This is a case study about a project failure due to inefficient human resource management planning. This paper begins with a brief background of the case followed by identifying the issues needing attention. There will be a discussion on who was responsible for the failure and whether or not the appropriate direction was justified. There will be a brief summary of what I felt would be a better plan followed by any lessons learned I gained from this case study.