Leading and Managing the HR Project

 Continuing from the previous assignment, it is now important to consider your approach to leading and managing your HR project. Tightly structured projects tend to restrict cross-organizational communication. As such, objectives originate at the top of the project, and are subdivided as they are passed down, resulting in little opportunity for creative contributions. Effective leadership and managing of the project can greatly improve communication and team contributions. 

 
Write a five to six (3-5) page paper in which you: 

 Review and understand the types of project manager power

 Identify and briefly discuss a minimum of four (4) outcomes (possible issues) resulting from managing projects and address how you might resolve the issues. Be clear with your rationale. 

 Discuss some increased challenges a project manager may face when leading virtual or global project teams. Recommend a few strategies to deal with the challenges. 

 Identify and explain your overall plan for communication management during the project. The plan must be comprehensive and at a minimum address (1) structure, (2) purpose, (3) method, and (4) timing. 

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Organizing HR Projects

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Organizing HR Projects

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Organizing HR Projects

Strategic planning for this project will require the team to create a long term vision for the organization to have a centralized model of delivering HR services. The five steps of strategic planning for the current project include; project charter, identify and meet stakeholders, identify risks, performing qualitative risk analysis and planning risk response. Project charter is the first step that defines the roles and the duties of the project team. It is also used to highlight the vision and goals of the project and how the team intends to achieve the goals. The second step involves identifying and meeting the stakeholders and these are the people who have an interest in the project including the sponsors, project team members, employees, customers and project managers. The current stakeholders for the project include project team members, project manager, the leadership of the organization and employees. Identification of risks is the third step where project manager will try and identify possible project risks and document sources of the risks, the category of the risk and responses. Risks may include lack of support from the management, stakeholders having a negative attitude towards the project and changes in management. The fourth step will require the project team to perform qualitative risk analysis which is the procedure of ranking risks for additional analysis or assessing their impact on the project. Planning risk response involves initiating a plan that will mitigate the risks to the project objective. This involves identifying the ranked risks and allocating resources and activities to mitigate the risks.

A project vision is used to give the project team a reason for contributing towards the project. It is used to explain the aim of the project, unite the team members, erase confusion and act as an inspiration to the team. A vision and vision statement are isolated but linked concepts. The vision statement is more of a linguistic presentation of the vision. The vision statement for this project is “To establish a centralized model of delivering HR services that will improve service delivery.” The mission statement for the project should be “To implement a cost effective centralized model of delivering HR services that will be able to improve employer- employee relations and best delivery of HR services.”

The project charter is a declaration of scope, objectives and the people who will be partaking the project. The project charter defines the roles and the duties of the project team and also outlines the project goals and objectives. The role of the project manager is also defined and the various stakeholders involved are identified. The charter document will be used as a reference document throughout the project and should summarize points like; the goals and objectives of the project, the roles of each stakeholder in the project and it also acts as a contract between the project sponsor, the project team and key stakeholders. The project charter document is used a selling point to the various stakeholders, it is a reference point throughout the entire period of the project and stakeholders are able to see the return on their investment.

A statement of emphasis for the current project should cover the costs and deadlines, the process for the project, resources needed which will include any facilities that will be used during the project, assignment of tasks and the purpose of the project which is to evaluate a centralized model of delivering HR services.

References

Kelsey John., Winch Graham., Penn A. (2001). Understanding the Project Planning Process: Requirements Capture for the Virtual Construction Site. Kelsey, J. and Winch, G.M. and Penn, A. (2001) Understanding the project planning process: requirements capture for the virtual construction site. Research report. Bartlett Research Papers (15). The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London, London, UK.