Lecture Information technology project management - Chapter 8: Project human resource management

Chapter 8 - Project human resource management. The learning objectives for this chapter include: Explain the importance of good human resource management on projects, including the current state of the global IT workforce and future implications for it; define project human resource management and understand its processes;...

Chapter 8: Project Human Resource  Management adopted from PMI’s PMBOK 2000 and  Textbook : Information Technology Project Management Contents • Importance of Human Resource Management • Project human resource management processes – Organizational planning – Staff acquisition – Team development • Keys to Managing People – motivation: Hierarchy of Needs (Maslow), Motivational and  Hygiene Factors (Herzberg), Theory X and Y (McGregor)  – succeed factors and fail factors  – influence and power: types of power – effectiveness: 7 habits for highly effective persons • Organizational Planning • using software to assist in HRM The Importance of Human  Resource Management • People determine the success and failure of  organizations and projects • Despite the downturn in the economy in 2001,  there is still a shortage of good IT workers  – ITAA calculated that there were over 844,000 openings  for IT jobs in 2000 – 1 in 14 American workers are involved in IT jobs – Although women represent 47 percent of the work  force, they make up only 29 percent of IT jobs Chapter 8 What is Project Human  Resource Management? • Project human resource management  includes the processes required to make the  most effective use of the people involved  with a project.  • Processes include – Organizational planning