Desire to do their best for the project
Desire to do their best for the project
‘People are motivated by a desire to do their best for the project’.
You have two members of your project team that do not seem to be working effectively; first there is Tom who is a new graduate with very limited work experience who comes to work late, goes early and spends much of his day talking and surfing the Internet; Tom has not responded to your suggestions he gets down to work.
Secondly, there is Harriet who is an experienced project manager who has previously shown considerable levels of skill and ability to work hard, but she has shown no interest in this project and continuously called in sick or claimed she has ‘family issues’. You have attempted to ask her to focus on the project in hand but without any improvement being shown.
Critically discuss the role of motivation in project management utilising appropriate theoretical models to identify how project staff can be motivated. Include in your answer a discussion of the way motivation develops and the role of leadership and communication in this process. The focus of your answer must be on your own organisation (or one that you have worked within) and ways that you might deal with Tom and Harriet.
You will need to take the following into account when completing your assignment.
• Establishment of relevant theory (e.g. what do we mean by leadership, how can leaders be classified, what is the relationship between leader and team and project in theoretical terms?).
• Allocation of credit and sources used; (have I included references and citations to the material I have used?);
• Clarity of argument and relevance to the project management context
• Overall report presentation including spelling and grammar;
• Adherence to nominated word limit.
1) Executive summary – not included in the 2,750 words counts
2) Theoretical models and their application to company XX (company of writer’s choice)
3) Conclusion
