Project Manager
- 1. Project Manager Responsibilities Functional Responsibilities Organizational Responsibilities Team Responsibilities
- 2. Project Manager Responsibilities Functional Responsibilities: understanding project requirements planning & controlling the project implementing the project completing the project on-time, within budget, according to specifications
- 3. Project Manager Responsibilities Organizational Responsibilities: understanding the organizational context nurturing authority learning how to influence others resolving conflicts understanding the political situation
- 4. Project Manager Responsibilities Team Responsibilities: selecting and developing staff assigning tasks to staff serving as management / staff intermediary effectively communicating with others providing leadership motivating team members building a cohesive team
- 5. Qualities of a Good Project Manager (Page-Jones 1985) . personal integrity . sensitivity . ability to inspire . tenacity . willingness to serve . competence . courage to make decisions . courage to delegate . ability to set & meet objectives . ability to communicate reality . ability to think and be innovative
- 6. Leadership “ Leadership is a matter of intelligence, trustworthiness, humaneness, courage, and sternness.” -- Sun Tzu “ Leadership is solving problems. … Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.” -- General Colin Powell
- 7. Leadership Objective: to get diverse set of actors performing at maximal effectiveness Leadership / Management Styles: autocrat consultative autocrat consensus manager (democratic) shareholder manager (laissez-faire)
- 8. Leadership Styles autocrat managers solicit little or no input from team managers make decisions themselves consultative autocrat intensive information input is elicited managers make all substantive decisions
- 9. Leadership Styles consensus manager (democratic) elicit group discussion allow group to make decision shareholder manager (laissez-faire) little information input or exchange in team team has ultimate authority for final decision poor management
- 10. Motivation Motivators achievement recognition work itself responsibility advancement growth Hygiene Factors company policy & administration supervision salary interpersonal relations working conditions status security
- 11. Motivation Job Characteristics Model (job design theory) -- Hackman & Oldham Jobs are designed with 5 core job dimensions … skill variety task identity task significance autonomy feedback