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