Team-based Project Management
Published on 4. December 1997
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8144-0364-8 (ISBN)
Description
This text is a team-building guide specifically aimed at project managers, and it aims to give them the skills they need to create high-performing project teams. The skills covered in the book include how to: understand the basics of human behaviour and motivation; turn a group of people into a functioning project team; lead the team effectively and help manage decision making; develop the team's level of sophisitication and abilities; promote innovation and creativity; deal with problem team members; and resolve conflicts.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 184 mm
Weight
645 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8144-0364-8 (9780814403648)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Part 1 Project management concepts: introduction; a brief review of some project management concepts. Part 2 Teams and behaviour in organizations: behaviour in organizations; chaos, fractals, and project teams; teams, herds, and gaggles of nerds. Part 3 Team development: turning a group into a true team; managing team development. Part 4 Project teams and teamwork issues: managing decision-making in a project team; promoting innovation in the team; take your meetings out of the doldrumns. Part 5 Improving your team: how to improve team performance; dealing with a team member whose performance is unsatisfactory; managing conflict in project teams; managing team capacity issues.