Project Management - People and Organisations

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• 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.
• the roles of project leader and manager and their required competencies.
• the impacts of organisational dynamics on project success or failure.
• the value of effective teamwork, participative approach and stakeholders’ management in projects.

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.
• Report and present ideas in writing or orally.
• Apply an analytical, reflective and critical approach to problem analysis and resolution.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

• 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

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.

Formative

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

In-class activities

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Short student activities in small groups during the lectures will be followed by questions and answers. Students are strongly encouraged to ask questions and engage throughout the lecture to receive feedback. Hence, plenty of opportunities for receiving feedback from lecturer or their peers.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

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.