...insufficient expertise can be a result of workplace failures and improper hiring process. Therefore, it is important to invest efforts into human resources planning. The present paper provides an example of the human resource plan for ABC Company, which specializes in providing management and subcontract workers on various projects globally. Specifically, the plan consists of organizational structure, description of competitors, work culture, factors needed for success, communication, compensation of employees, recruitment, performance management, and training. These areas should provide comprehensive information about the significance and purposes of the human resource plan in international organizations. Human Resource Management for ABC Company Human Resources (HR) plan is a strategic and systematic method of managing people in a way that maximizes their contribution to company’s goals. It involves all management decisions that impact the nature of the relationship between the company and its personnel, the human resources. These decisions are generally made by senior management that can delegate some of the responsibilities to HR managers in creating corresponding plans. The purpose of the present paper is to provide a comprehensive HR plan for ABC Company that provides subcontract workers on various...
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...extra savings will fuel additional growth and expansion to the company, as we are able to fund more research and projects to improve our workplace. Financial Sunshine How has GenRays been doing financially? As you can see from the chart below, our total sales have been climbing. We passed $6M in sales in the final quarter of last year—up from just over $4M in sales the prior year. 8 One new project that you will read about in this newsletter is the possible implementation of a new HRIS system with payroll functions. We are hoping that the HRIS side of this new system will impact your work life at GenRays very positively, allowing you to create a career track for yourself that aligns with your own goals. It will allow for more transparency in hiring, as all employees will be able to see and apply for open positions as they wish. It will also allow management to ensure that applicants for new jobs are well-qualified. The payroll side will ensure that your paychecks and expense reports are processed more or less automatically, which will make it faster and easier for you to be reimbursed or to make changes to your auto-pay options. We have hired a new project manager to lead up this initiative and make recommendations about whether we can move forward and how to go about it. The PM will meet with employees, vendors, and management to identify important parts of the project and make sure we meet our goals. I know you will make our new PM feel welcome and that you will provide your honest...
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...Project management Approaches While estimating a project, the first step is to derive the size of the project so as to guide in estimation of other parameters, such as cost, schedule, and effort. With an accurate estimation of the size of your project done, you can carry out estimation of the required effort. This conversion from project size to total project effort is done after you have defined the project development lifecycle and development process that your team should follow to specify, design, develop and test the software. Estimation of the effort required in a project requires a project manager to identify and derive, and them put together all the activities that will build up the project as per the estimated size. There are various ways to derive effort from size: Use the organization’s historical data: An ideal path is to utilize your organization's documented information to decide the amount of exertion past projects of the same size has taken. This data obviously does not guarantee the performance of equal measure, but it sure provide a baseline of the possibilities. Review available records and determine the effort applied to achieve similar activities. You can interview the people who were there in case of lack of some records. This, of course, assumes a few things (a) your association has been archiving real records on recent activities and that you will follow a comparatively similar development lifecycle, utilize a comparable advancement strategy, utilize...
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...HRIS Project Charter Template |[pic] | 5.13.12 Table of Contents Project Title ........................................................................................................................ 3 Purpose .......................................................................................................... 3 Description ..................................................................................................... 3 Objective ........................................................................................................ 3 Success Criteria or Expected Benefits .............................................................. 4 Funding ........................................................................................................... 4 Major Deliverables .......................................................................................... 5 Acceptance Criteria ......................................................................................... 6 Milestone Schedule ........................................................................................ 6 Approval Requirements ................................................................................. 6 Project Manager ............................................................................................ 6 Authorized by ................................................................................................ 6 ...
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...Stress in Projects Using Coaching Leadership Tools. This article is about How to manage stress for project manager using coaching skills. As a project manager there a lot of pressure they need to handle. They need to deal with a client and their workers. Stress is an adaptive response to a situation that is perceived as challenging or threatening to a person’s wellbeing (McShane and Glinow,2013). Every project manager has to go through stress in trying to get the project to turn out successfully, handle tough team members and get the project done. And it isn’t easy (Chan,2013). As you know project manager also human being who sometimes cannot control their feeling and problem and it will make them very stressful. If the stress is left unattended it will make the stress worse and the stress will change to more difficult feeling which stressor and job burnout. According to Mc Shane (2013) stressor is a any environmental conditions that place a physical or emotional demand on a person and job burnout is a the process of emotional exhaustion, cynicism and reduced personal accomplishment that resulted from prolonged exposure to stressor. There many consequences from stress and for sure it will affect the project progress because many work will be pending and the performance of work not meet the customer expectation. As a project manager, they should know how to handle their stress and make sure their stress not affect the project progress. When making a project it involves...
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...Determination: Analyse of the conduct of the interview: In general, what is your view of how the interview was conducted? Generally the interview was reasonably professional if a little rushed. The good points were: Inez begins well by reviewing the company’s business objectives which she has a grasp of from previous contacts with the company. There seems to be a good understanding on business matters between Inez and Gerry. She ensures that she has a firm understanding of many of the facts that she gathered. E.g. “Now, I understand one of the general objectives of the new information system is to be able to extract reports and inquiries on demand from any browser on a PC, laptop, Blackberry or PDA”. She pauses to jot some details of those facts down The bad points were: Inez seems to have her eye on the clock and she avoids going into detail on some of the new areas of business that Gerry wants in the new system e.g. the company’s proposed environmental specialist division, is not analysed by Inez. She also does not analyse sufficiently the Safety System. At times she does not seem to be listening to Gerry. Gerry talks about the environmental area more than once, but she does not to pick up on it sufficiently. However, to be fair to Inez, at the end of the interview she does say that in their next meeting she intended to look at some of the tasks in more detail. Did Inez elicit the information you would expect from a first interview? Yes in terms of identifying the main...
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...businesses structure. This provides a greater exposure to the necessary elements required in order to maintain the continued operations of a successful construction company. During my employment I have been able to cover sections including estimating, contracts administration, cost reporting, document control and involvement in developing tender packages. Experiencing this variety of works has enabled me to realize the area of work I wish to move into once I complete my degree and Rimfire’s cadet program. Without exposure to these categories I would not have been able to make an informed choice on my future career ambitions post graduation. This future ambition involves continuing down the path of contracts administrator and onto Project Manager. In summarizing the reflection detailed in the attached report, receiving practical industry experience is an invaluable learning curve to a fulltime university student. Making...
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...duration of a project. It is a significant part of the planning process of a project. Estimating is a best guess and it is well thought out based on using various estimating techniques as well as all available resources related to a project. Barbara’s company successfully won a competitive bid. As the Project Manager on the project as well she was not part of the bidding process, but she had extensive knowledge and experience about estimating projects. Barbara immediately believed that the estimating technique used by the estimating group was inaccurate and would cause the project to have a late delivery. Thus she consulted with someone who had worked on a similar project to determine the best estimating technique to utilize for this project. Analysis Process In Barbara’s company, project managers are not involved in the bidding and estimating processes of some projects. Like her, some project managers are assigned once the company is awarded a contract. It is the Proposal Department of the company, and especially its estimating group, which is responsible for estimating from the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) all the work for a project. Overall, the estimating group process flow for each work package or deliverable is described in Figure 1. In this case, Barbara however, did not take for granted the provided estimate for this project. She noticed the Analogy estimating based upon previous projects, that a work package that is located on the critical path of the project was underestimated...
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...1. What do you think the construction project manager should have done when the Director of Security stopped attending the project meetings? Tracked him down and explained that absence was not an option. Elevated it to Fred if it continued for another week. Frank has to figure out how to get coverage – that is why he is the director of security 2. Do you think it is an effective communications tool to send the construction project meeting minutes to the ALF steering team and the President? Support your answer. It is necessary, but only effective if people react to it – Kyle should have realized long ago, that that was not the case and followed up verbally. 3. How much time has to be made up for the original, baseline schedule to be met? 14 days 4. Develop an action plan and draw a Gantt chart for the Parking Lot phase of the project as originally planned by Kyle. Answer Fred's questions. The parking lot plans were not in the original plans because Kyle thought they would not impact the overall completion date If the approval does not come through until May 1, then the completion will be delayed to June 12. We can afford to wait until May 4. 5. What information does Fred need to make a decision about building a hair salon? The potential income, what it will cost to change the plans to accommodate it and how it will affect the schedule. Individual part 2. Do problems 25, 26, and 27 on pages 265-66. (2 point each) 25. A project in its 26th week has an actual cost of...
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...cause of the failure risk associated with the construction of the Empire State Building. Fault tree Analysis will be used to find the out the causes of the failures. The second risk is the possibility of water leakage in the building. Fault tree analysis is used to illustrate the likely problem and the root cause of the problem. Sources of construction project risk: The project manager will use the budget which was based on the historical data for similar project. Timeline of any project is very critical. Completing a project within the budget and schedule has always been the goal of a project manager, so for that reason the project manager will set the completion date with the callobration of the stakeholders of the project. The project manager will performing a realistic assessment of the project duration and sequence at the early stage or planning stage of the project. This schedule will be monitored throughout the design and construction. The project manager and the construction contractor will address any disruption that might popup during the design and construction of the project. • Timeline • Costs •...
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...Running head: APPLIED RESEARCH “Applied Research Technologies, Inc.” Phyllis A. Clayton Professor: Dr. Hakim B. Allah Project Management Leadership BUS 518 July 21, 2012 “Applied Research Technologies, Inc.” 1. Determine the leadership style that Peter Vyas exhibited as he considered the group’s proposal and provide examples of his behavior. Of the four leadership styles, participative, consultative, delegative, and directive, discussed in Lewis’ book Project Leadership, Peter Vyas exhibited a participative leadership style. The manner and approach Peter Vyas used when providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating his team exhibited traits of a participative leader. This particular style of leadership involves the inclusion of one or more employees in the decision making process when determining what to do and how to do it. One example of Vyas participative leadership style was him listening to his team and backing their recommendation to develop a “small-scale oxidation system that enabled waste-water disinfection in small batches” (Custom Book, 2011, p. 6). Once Vyas decided to go forth with the project, he convinced other business units to assist by allowing members of their departments to become team members. Throughout this case were examples of Vyas participative leadership as demonstrated in statements like “The team decided to refocus a second-generation product on specialized applications in Western countries where funding was...
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...Span to develop new banking software for C-S. The contract has a one year timeline, and for $6 million. Due to unseen challenges in the development of the software, Span has struggled to meet the milestones of the contract. C-S’s IT Outsourcing Director Leon Ther has been monitoring Span’s progress and quality of the deliverables. Requirements for the software on both the user and system sides have grown more complicated unexpectedly. These changes in requirements are a driving force behind the slip of schedule and escaping defects. C-S has changed their project management which has added to the sign off process on milestone achievements. C-S and Span has reached a point of conflict in their contract. C-S has demanded the code for the software, has claimed a low level in Span’s quality on deliverables. Span has reached the point where they feel requirements have grown and that C-S’s project management has slowed the project down. The three areas of the contract that I feel Span should use as negotiating points are; ‘Communications Reporting’, ‘Requirements Change’, and ‘Internal Escalation Procedure for Dispute’. Once the notice that C-S may have given some data to an Indian Company, I quickly selected ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ over Communication Reporting. The response from Ther was mixed, he denies any IPR violations, denies any change in requirements, but does agree that Internal Escalation Procedures could be better followed and applied. In order to try to save the...
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...Carly is the project manager for a very important project due the 1st of the year. The project manager for this project needs to demonstrate leadership skills, and the ability to take control of their team and get the job done by the deadline. The next few pages will give insight on Carly, her team and the events that may occur during the timeline of this project. A Bad Project Manager Carly lacks the skills of a Project Manager in the leadership ability area and developing communication skills with people. Her control factor as a responsible Project Manager seems to lack. The admitting of defeat is never an easy thing to do. If Carly were to come and admit that she was not able to carry out this project it would mean maybe in her mind that Morris is smarter than she is and a better candidate for her job. As with most people it is so much easier to place blame someplace other than on yourself. While using Morris as a distraction as to not getting her job done she has placed blame on Morris who is not the root cause of the delay of the project. The lack of attention to the project deadline and its delay gives proof of the lack of ability on the part of Carly. As Project Manager one of the main things you want to do is to stay within the allotted timeframe given by the customer to keep them happy. There is no demonstration of control showing the progress of the project to the planned or projected status at various times throughout the duration of the project (Gido, & Clements)...
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...Allen and 30 year old project manager. The writer will analyze the three core skills, Analyze the way in which Tim Aston, the young project manager, was exercising his skills, write about the support Time received from his company, and give feedback based on the information in the case study. The three core skills that played a major role in the reluctant workers case study are Leadership, Team building, and Organizational skills. Tim Alston a 30 year old new project manager to his company; his team was not willing to give him the proper respect he should have been given. The team had been with the company for 20 years or more and was reluctant to change. In order for a project to run efficiently, the project manager must have good leadership skills. As the leader Tim should have been able to negotiate and use influences along with discipline to get the job don effectively. Tim team did not show the same commitment to the project as Tim. They refused to set aside personal things when the team had to perform a major testing for the customer; however before scheduling a testing Tim should have verified the team availability. When Tim went to his manager to discuss how reluctant his team was to change, the manager suggested he do some reading on human behavior. “The program manager must be a social architect; that is, he must understand how the organization works and how to work with the organization. Organizational skills are particularly important during project formation and startup...
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...(IT) Project Manager According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics website (newsletter) they do not keep specific information on project manager’s earnings. However, what they do indicate is that project managers salaries are based on the level of education and experience and can differ based on their regional locations. (DeVincenzo, 2006) I would suspect that a survey conducted by the Project Management Institute (PMI) in 2006, would hold true for most jobs nationally. They found that experience is a determining factor regarding salaries and most entry level positions provided a lower earning scale for the full time project managers which gave a median annual salary of $96,000, including salary and bonuses. As a nationwide median and not specific to my location it still indicates that at least 50% make more than $96,000 and the other 50% make less. (DeVincenzo, 2006) Further research regarding IT Project Managers seems to reveal some question regarding earnings and certification, do IT Project Manager need additional education and certification in order to make more money and leapfrog to higher paying positions? According to a study done by CIO.com they believe certifications is the only way an IT PM will first, get hired and second, be considered for the higher salary ranges. The survey found that more and more CIO’s believe that certifications are important and valuable for a project manager to obtain. They also found companies seeking project managers, added...
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