In my opinion for the success of project, available good resources and smart PM is not enough. Environment within which project is going should also be considered.PM need to face lots of obstructions in running project. Conditions at different levels of project might be different furthermore can be very easy or can be highly difficult.PM is responsible to tackle such situations considering his team for that particular project. Realizing this environment means understanding the stakeholders and their ability to affect successful output (Wideman, 1990) .In order to have flexible capacity to face environmental complexity and sudden change found on many projects today the following skills are needed by the PM.High degree of self-reference,
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Cultural differences plays vital role in implementation of project so managers are concerned about such multicultural projects to manage them very effectively keeping in mind number of cultural challenges interrupting project work. To achieve project goals and avoid cultural misunderstanding PM should be culturally sensitive and focusing on inventiveness and motivation by adaptable leadership (Amponsah, 2012, P.1&2).Project managers understand the need to give importance in influencing the projects cultural environment for benefit of stakeholders. Project manager should arrange trainings which will improve projects cultural environment. Moreover such trainings will provide strong tool in constructing competency and commitment to project and simultaneously improving team performance as well as final project quality (Widman, 1990, …show more content…
Some factors like lack of trust, respect, effective listening skills and perceptual differences will lead to communication problems. Misinterpretation of design drawing, failure to execute instructions are all because of some type of communication breakdown. Good communication skills of project manager are needed because he or she has responsibility, gray line of authority ,delegation problems, conflicts among employees and complex project organizational structure. Project managers and their team must also develop communication skills to resolve the project conflicts.PM should create such environment which will boost members to have open communication in order to deal with the conflict and obtain team members acceptance to project goals. Conflict have significant impact on the project performance. So PM must possess skill of management of conflicts. There are number of conflicts in an organization. Conflict over project priorities is one of them. In this conflict views of project participants differ over chain of tasks and differences between long term and short term perspectives. So PM should develop the master plan compatible with the long term startegies.Conflict over administration process is another conflict showing that how project will be organized. Hence PM should clarify roles and responsibilities at the beginning of project. There may be conflicts over technical issues as well which
Cultural differences plays vital role in implementation of project so managers are concerned about such multicultural projects to manage them very effectively keeping in mind number of cultural challenges interrupting project work. To achieve project goals and avoid cultural misunderstanding PM should be culturally sensitive and focusing on inventiveness and motivation by adaptable leadership (Amponsah, 2012, P.1&2).Project managers understand the need to give importance in influencing the projects cultural environment for benefit of stakeholders. Project manager should arrange trainings which will improve projects cultural environment. Moreover such trainings will provide strong tool in constructing competency and commitment to project and simultaneously improving team performance as well as final project quality (Widman, 1990, …show more content…
Some factors like lack of trust, respect, effective listening skills and perceptual differences will lead to communication problems. Misinterpretation of design drawing, failure to execute instructions are all because of some type of communication breakdown. Good communication skills of project manager are needed because he or she has responsibility, gray line of authority ,delegation problems, conflicts among employees and complex project organizational structure. Project managers and their team must also develop communication skills to resolve the project conflicts.PM should create such environment which will boost members to have open communication in order to deal with the conflict and obtain team members acceptance to project goals. Conflict have significant impact on the project performance. So PM must possess skill of management of conflicts. There are number of conflicts in an organization. Conflict over project priorities is one of them. In this conflict views of project participants differ over chain of tasks and differences between long term and short term perspectives. So PM should develop the master plan compatible with the long term startegies.Conflict over administration process is another conflict showing that how project will be organized. Hence PM should clarify roles and responsibilities at the beginning of project. There may be conflicts over technical issues as well which