Module Title

Course Content & Concepts

Objectives and Rationale

Duration

1. The Individual In A Dynamic Environment

·1 Individual Strengths and Weaknesses Analysis

·2 Work Pressure as a ‘Stressor’

·3 Dealing With Work Pressure

·4 Time Management and ‘Accounting Throughput’

·5 Pragmatic Assertiveness: Improving Your Ability To Question and Challenge

By the end of the specific learning activities delegates will be able to:

·1 develop an awareness for their own strengths and weaknesses

·2 Develop a strategy for maintaining their strengths while developing their weak areas.

·3 Determine factors within their work environments that are stressors

·4 Manage their workload in such a way that they reduce the negative effects of their associated stressor.

·5 Manage their time effectively, contributing to individual success and organisational improvement.

·6 Put forward their points without generating negative reaction from others

·7 Manage their interaction with colleagues and managers, in such a way that they get their desired results

2 days

2.Organisational Analysis An Internal View

·1 Definition of Organisation

·2 Organisational Objectives,

·3 The Collegium

·4 Organisational Tasks

·5 Division Of Work/Labour

·6 Delegation of Role, Task, Power, Authority in a project management and general organisational setting

·7 Responsibility for task performance in an organisation-wide context and project setting.

·8 Organisational Accountability: internal and External

·9 Internal accountability: Worker accountability to team managers and project leaders

·10 Authority

·11 Two facets of authority

·12 The second facet of authority

·13 Traditional authority

·14 Legitimate authority

·15 Professional authority

·16 Power

By the end of the specific learning activities delegates will be able to:

·1 Demonstrate an understanding of the organisation, as an entity, as opposed to other groups.

·2 Demonstrate an understanding of the different levels and types of organisations and objectives

·3 Formulate project objectives

·4 Demonstrate an understanding of the meaning of collegiality within a project management and general organisational setting

·5 Demonstrate an understanding of an organisation or its subsystem’s need to meet the expectations of the external environment

·6 Demonstrate an awareness of the consequences of failure to meet the organisations external accountability

·7 Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of delegation

·8 Demonstrate the competence in managing the delegation process effectively

1 Day

3. Organisational Analysis : A Strategic View

·1 External Organisational accountability

·2 Accountability to owners/sponsors

·3 Accountability to clients/users/customers

·4 Accountability to Creditors

·5 Accountability to Sector or Industry

·6 Accountability to the State – Government, generally; Regulatory Authorities (eg. Office of Fair Trading, Competition Commission, Trading Standards, Sector Regulators, City Regulators

By the end of the specific learning activities delegates will be able to:

·1 View external accountability as the expectations of the organisation by different agencies

·2 Demonstrate their understanding of the requirement of different external agents

·3 Assess the consequence to the organisation of its failure to meet the requirements of particular agencies

·4 Determine the ways in which an organisation might meet its varying accountability requirements.

1 day

4. Internal and External Organisational Analysis: A Strategic View

·7 Organisational Internal Analysis:

·8 Organisational Strengths and Weaknesses Analysis

·9 Organisational External Analysis: Opportunities and Threats Analysis

·10 Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) Analysis

·11 External Global Analysis; Local, National, Global Analyses of PEST Factors or LONGPEST Analysis

·12 Political, Economic, Social, Technological, European, Legal Analysis or PESTEL Analysis

By the end of the specific learning activities delegates will be able to:

·1 Assess the organisation’s strengths and weaknesses

·2 Determine the opportunities that are available to the organisation and how it might best take advantage of it

·3 Analyse the threats that the organisation faces and how they might be circumvented.

·4 Conduct an effective SWOT analysis, taking account of the political, economic, social, and technological factors into account

·5 Analyse their organisation using PEST, PESTEL and LONGPEST factors into account.

1 Day

5. Information Management: Data Gathering and Analysis

·14 Questionnaire, Interview and Scalar Checklist Design

·15 Information Gathering: Documentary Analysis, Conversation Analysis and Interviewing,

·16 Levels of Participant Observation

·17 The Complete Participant As Observer: Making ‘Detached Observations’

·18 Information Processing: Data Analysis and Interpretation

·19 Encouraging Lateral Thinking: Brainstorming, Forced Associations, Metaphors, Analogies

By the end of the specific learning activities delegates will be able to:

·1 Design a research project, taking account of important issues

·2 Choose sources of information appropriate for the type of research being conducted

·3 Assess the value of secondary sources of information as a prelude to the conduct of primary research

·4 Choose the methodology that best suits the type of investigation being conducted & appropriate to the research objectives

·5 Choose the most appropriate data elicitation techniques, in relation to the sampling frame, sampling unit, sample size & time span, among other factors.

·6 Advise others of the situations in which participant observation, conversation analysis, documentary analysis, focus groups, interviews & questionnaires, respectively, are appropriate.

·7 Design interviews & questionnaires that will elicit information appropriate to the research objectives

·8 Design structured & unstructured questions, determining the conditions under which they should be used

·9 Design questionnaires & interview schedules, with a mixture of open-ended & closed-ended questions, avoiding forced-choice in the latter

·10 Employ appropriate data analysis techniques, based on the type & volume of data available

·11 Use SPSS and, or, Excel software packages in analysing data

·12 Identifying ‘trends’ & ‘patterns’ in information, in an effort to arrive at conclusions

·13 Produce effective reports, adhering to conventional styles, presenting evidence from the data, & exploiting visual representations

·14 Make research proposals, taking pertinent factors into account

·15 Manage research projects, from inception to reporting

·16 Identify appropriate roles in research project management & produce realistic costing

·17 Design a research project that incorporates a high ethical standard

3 days

6. Project Totality: A Systems View of Project Management

·1 Planning – conceptualisation, analysis, proposal, justification, agreement

·2 Doing – start-up, execution, completion, hand over

·3 Checking – review

·4 Acting – feedback

·5 Development of a Project Life Cycle, Project Brief and Proposal

·6 The Management of Change

·7 The Systems Approach to Project Management

·8 The requirements of successful Project Management

·9 Balancing Costs and Benefits

·10 Managing the Planning Process

·11 Critical Incident Analysis

·12 Project Control Mechanism

·13 The Value Chain: Adding Value To Processes, Products and Processes

·14 Project Decision-making

·15 Project Coordination: The 5 Bases of Co-ordination

·16 Developing a CATWOE Focus of project management

By the end of the specific learning activities delegates will be able to

·1 Determine and develop a project life cycle

·2 Determine the activities and problems associated with each stage of the project life cycle

·3 Be able to conduct an effective cost benefit analysis

·4 Determine the cost effectiveness of a project or a stage in its life cycle

·5 Demonstrate an understanding of the system’s approach to project management

·6 View project management in a holistic manner

·1 Draw on the concept of ‘equifinality’ in managing the different project stages

·2 Establish an effective planning mechanism that will facilitate effective project implementation

·3 Will determine the most effective control mechanism to employ in project management

·4 Solicit evaluate and communicate information effectively for the enhancement of project decision making

·5 Be aware of the five bases of coordination and determine which is appropriate for a particular situation

·1 Determine the factors, which contribute to workers’ resistance to change

·2 Suggest the efforts, which an organisation might employ to reduce workers’ resistance to change

·3 Demonstrate their awareness of change management and human resource implications

·4 Distinguish between change strategies and approaches to change

·5 Illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy

·6 Manage latent and manifest resistance to change

·7 Determine the situations when a particular approach might be appropriate

·8 Determine the most effective ways of communicating change decisions to workers

·9 Illustrate the advantages and drawbacks of group involvement in decisions related to change

·10 Design measures, which will ensure change institutionalisation

·11 Demonstrate leadership in the implementation of change, whilst avoiding whilst avoiding Human and Organisational Casualties

4 days

7. Project Management: Approaches and Methodologies

· An introduction to Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method (SSADM)

· Feasibility Study

· Project Definition and Profile

· Deciding on analytical and Project Approach

· Analytical Toolkit

· Project methodologies – iterative through to Waterfall

· Joint Application Design (JAD)

· Process Re-Engineering

· RUP

· Rapid Application Development (RAD)

· Process Mapping/Modelling

· CASE

· Facilitation/Workshop

· Data Modelling

· Strategy

· Creativity Reviewing

· The bigger picture

· Objectivity

· Testing techniques

· Prototyping

· Cause and effect analysis

· Root cause analysis

By the end of the specific learning activities delegates will be able to:

·7 Determine the value of information in project methodology

·8 Demonstrate their understanding of different project methodologies, determining their benefits and pitfalls for particular types projects

·9 Determine the most appropriate methodology for individual situations

3 days

8. Motivating Workers in a project setting

·1 Directing Or Leading

·2 The Concept of Motivation

·3 Theories of Motivation

·4 Equitable Reward Systems

·5 Designing An Effective Motivation Strategy

·6 The collectivist Vs the individualist perspective of motivation

·7 Common trends in Motivation theories

9 By the conclusion of the specific learning & development activities, delegates will be able to:

10 Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of motives and their value in organisational and subsystem effectiveness

11 Distinguish between the different sets of motivation theories, notably content, process and reinforcement

12 Demonstrate their ability to translate motivation theory into practice

13 Evaluate the appropriateness of the application of particular theoretical aspects of motivation to specific situations

14 Demonstrate their ability to formulate a comprehensive motivation strategy

15 Critically appraise existing motivation strategy within their organisations, identifying and addressing gaps

16 Formulate a workable motivation strategy

·17 Follows the common trends in the popular motivation theories.

·18 Demonstrate their appreciation of the need for a variance in intrinsic and extrinsic values if motivation.

·19 Demonstrate how popular motivation theories have contributed to our understanding of worker behaviour.

·20 locate performance related pay, productivity bonuses and other remuneration inducement within existing motivation theory.

·21 Illustrate how the contingency approach to motivation might be applied to different situations.

·22 Indicate the part that training and development play in worker motivation.

·23 Manage the process of motivation, taking account of socio cultural and economic differences.

·24 Manage the motivation process, taking account of the differences in preferences and expectation of workers.

·25 Apply the ‘equity’ theory to work situation from a ‘differentiation perspective’, rather than an ‘equality perspective’.

2 days

9. Organisational Design: Structuring and Restructuring Organisations 1

·1 An introduction to organisational design: Approaches to organisational design - classical, neo-classical and contingency approaches.

·2 Organisational structure: internal and external relationships. Vertical and horizontal relationships.

·3 Lines of authority and accountability. The functional structure.

·1 At the end of the specified learning activities, delegates will be able to:

·2 have an awareness of the fundamental issues associated with organisational design and their implications for effective organisational functioning;

·3 demonstrate their ability to design an appropriate organisational structure that takes account of contingent internal and external environmental factors.

1 day

10. Organisational Design: Structuring and Restructuring Organisations 2

·1 The divisional structure and its internal relationships. Basis of divisionalisation. The divisional structure compared with the functional structure on the basis of communication, co-ordination, autonomy, control and flexibility.

·2 The organisation of the matrix structure Decision-making and communication patterns in functional, divisional and matrix structures compared.

·3 At the end of se specified learning activities, delegates will be able to demonstrate their appreciation and understanding of how organisations, and particularly managers, might control, modify or re-engineer their work environment through a study of management/leadership styles, control systems, organisational development and learning

1 day

11. REVIEW AND FINAL ASSESSMENT

1 day

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