Contents, Concepts and Issues
General Project Management Issues
1. Concept of Project Management
2. Project Sustainability
3. Developing a Project
4. Project Planning
5. Team management & problem solving
6. Project management methodologies, tools and techniques
7. Some problem solving techniques
8. Project control
9. Project Purchasing
10. Pre-feasibility and feasibility studies
11. Scoping, strategy setting and final agreement
12. Project structure and managing meetings
13. Process and event based methodologies, software packages, flow charts, imagineering
14. Mind Mapping, fish bone method, ‘Is and Is Not’ and Brain Storming
15. Tracking timing and costs, contingencies
16. Working with suppliers and sub-contractors
Risk and Financial Risk Management in Advanced Project Management
17. Defining risk – generally, and in a project management setting
18. Relating risk management to projects and project management
19. Financial risk management and project management
20. Risk exposure in a project setting
21. Project risk and ‘Market Dynamics’
22. Liquidity in project management
23. Operating risk and financial liability
24. Fraud risk and project management
25. Link settlement risk with ‘survival imperative’
26. Project management strategy and risk management
27. Currency derivatives market and ‘project sustainability’
Motivating Workers in Advanced Project Management
28. Directing Or Leading in a project setting
29. The Concept of Motivation
30. Applying Content Theories of Motivation to Project Settings
31. Taylor’s Money-Motivator as a reward strategy
32. Motivator-Hygiene Factor: Using Herzberg’s ideas as a basis for an effective ‘Employee Relations Strategy’
33. Applying Equity Theory: Recognising Inequity
34. Goal-Setting Theory: Performance Management Application
35. Expectancy Theory: What does Valence holds for project management targets?
36. Improving Project Sustainability Through an Equitable Reward System
37. Reinforcement Theories:
38. Reinforcement Theory
39. Motivation & Contingency Theory: Accounting for Situational Variables
40. Is Performance Related Pay (PRP) applicable to a Project Management Setting?
41. Designing An Effective Motivation Strategy: Accounting for Internal and External Project Dynamics
42. Introducing Talent Management: Creating and Equitable Solution
43. The extent to which salary or wages inducement motivate workers