Influence - Human Resource - Lecture Slides, Slides of Human Resource Management

Human Resource is an integral part of Management Science. In these Lecture Slides of HRM, following key concepts are discussed : Influence, Authority, Legitimate, Hierarchical, Right, Projects, Later Work, Perceived Ability, Discretionary Funds, Pay

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2012/2013

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Thamhain and Wilemon’s Ways to
Have Influence on Projects
1. Authority: the legitimate hierarchical right to issue
orders
2. Assignment: the project manager's perceived
ability to influence a worker's later work
assignments
3. Budget: the project manager's perceived ability to
authorize others' use of discretionary funds
4. Promotion: the ability to improve a worker's
position
5. Money: the ability to increase a worker's pay and
benefits
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Thamhain and Wilemon’s Ways to

Have Influence on Projects

  1. Authority: the legitimate hierarchical right to issue orders
  2. Assignment: the project manager's perceived ability to influence a worker's later work assignments
  3. Budget: the project manager's perceived ability to authorize others' use of discretionary funds
  4. Promotion: the ability to improve a worker's position
  5. Money: the ability to increase a worker's pay and benefits 21

Thamhain and Wilemon’s Ways to

Have Influence on Projects

(continued)

  1. Penalty: the project manager's ability to cause punishment
  2. Work challenge: the ability to assign work that capitalizes on a worker's enjoyment of doing a particular task
  3. Expertise: the project manager's perceived special knowledge that others deem important
  4. Friendship: the ability to establish friendly personal relationships between the project manager and others 22

Power

Power is the potential ability to influence behavior to get people to do things they would not otherwise do  Types of power include:  Coercive  Legitimate  Expert  Reward  Referent

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Covey and Improving Effectiveness

 Project managers can apply Covey’s 7 habits to improve effectiveness on projects  Be proactive  Begin with the end in mind  Put first things first  Think win/win  Seek first to understand, then to be understood  Synergize  Sharpen the saw

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Human Resource Planning

 Involves identifying and documenting project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships  Outputs include:  Project organizational charts  Staffing management plan  Responsibility assignment matrixes  Resource histograms

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Figure 9-3: Sample Organizational

Chart for a Large IT Project

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Responsibility Assignment Matrices

 A responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) is a matrix that maps the work of the project as described in the WBS to the people responsible for performing the work as described in the OBS  Can be created in different ways to meet unique project needs

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