Project Human Resources Management

Course Description

Effective project managers must possess strong skills in organizational planning; team building, and staff management. Students are provided with the tools to help them face the challenges of managing matrix teams and the added complexity of managing a virtual team. Students will also examine motivation, influence, power and effectiveness theories from industrial-organizational psychologists and management theorists to help them understand how and why people work, and the effect of power on project teams. This is an intensive class that will guide the student through the Project Human Resource Management process as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Perform human resource planning functions.
• Explain how to acquire a project team.Create organizational charts.Define roles and responsibilities of the team.Use tools and techniques for human resource planning. Develop project teams.
• Manage project teams.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Overview of Project Human Resource Management

Lesson 2: Human Resource Planning

Lesson 3: Acquiring a Project Team

Lesson 4: Developing a Project Team

Lesson 5: Managing a Project Team