Managing Projects: Building and Leading the Team - Softcover

Boddy, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273651285 ISBN 13: 9780273651284

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2001

Synopsis

Courses in Project Management as part of an MBA or similar post-experience qualification; Post-graduate or post-experience Executive MBA programmes; Change Management; Managing Change; Strategy, E-Business/E-commerce; Technology Management; Innovation Management.This book examines project team management within organisations as it relates to organisational change and effectiveness.    Written from the view that project teams play a critical role in putting changes into effect, this book is ideally suited for those studying project or change management as part of a qualification, or responsible for managing, a change project to be more confident and skilful in understanding the human aspects of change.

About this title

From the Back Cover

 

Managing Projects

deals with all forms of organisational change. It  focuses particularly on project teams, since these play a critical role in implementing such projects effectively. In addition, it is ideally suited to those studying project or change management as part of a qualification, as well as helping those with some responsibility for managing a change project.  The aim throughout is to equip those responsible for building and leading the project team with more confidence and skill in understanding the human aspects of change.

 

This book is suitable for courses in project management at post-experience, MBA and executive MBA level, and for strategic, change, and innovation management courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

 

FEATURES

• Views project management from an organisational behaviour perspective, thus supplementing conventional approaches that stress formal methods and procedures. The focus is on the human aspects of managing projects and their teams.

• The author draws from his own research and practitioner experiences as a basis for the ideas and theories presented, thereby connecting theory and practice.

• Each chapter begins with a short introductory section leading to learning objectives, and concludes with a case study and questions, further reading and references. This provides structured learning and self-assessment opportunities, and encourages readers to engage actively with the subject material.
  
• 'Notepad' application feature integrated throughout the text encourage readers to relate the topic of a section to their own experience, or that of an organisation.

David Boddy is Research Fellow in the Department of Business and Management at the University of Glasgow.

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273651285
• ISBN 13: 9780273651284
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240