Project Management in Action: Managing World Bank Projects - (Diploma-Postgraduate)

Course Contents, Concepts and Issues

Team Dynamics: Introducing Team Leadership

· Groups and Aggregations: Points of Distinction

· The type and permanence of the leadership of a team

· When does a situational leader emerge

· How does the team attempts to replace a situational leader, enhance stability,

· acceptability or renewed or clarified mission or objectives?

· Why does a temporary team more problematic to lead than a permanent team?

· Why does team disbandment have a negative psychological effect on members and

· leader?

· An Aggregation - ‘Togetherness’ or ‘Awareness’?

· Aggregation and Interaction

· Team or Group: A Definition and Distinction

· Team Dynamics

· Team Typologies

· Team Typological Bases

· Command Team

· Committees

· Temporary Committees

· Standing Committees

· Task Forces;

· Boards

· Determining the Optimum Team Size

· Providing Team Incentives

· Encouraging Conflict

· Averting Groupthink

· Avoiding the Risky Shift Syndrome

· Employing Transactional Analysis

· Employing Effective Diversity Management and Discouraging Resonation

· Encouraging Members

· Harmonising Team

· Performance Management

· Solving Interpersonal Problems among Team Members

· Helping Team Members to Channel Their Energies into Task Performance Establishing

· Realistic Goals

· Developing Effective Communication Strategies

· Minimising Technical Language

General Project Management Issues

· Concept of Project Management

· Project Sustainability

· Developing a Project

· Project Planning

· Team Management and Problem Solving

· Project Management Methodologies, Tools and Techniques

· Some Problem Solving Techniques

· Project Control

· Project Purchasing

· Pre-Feasibility and Feasibility Studies

· Scoping, Strategy Setting and Final Agreement

· Project Structure and Managing Meetings

· Process and Event Based Methodologies, Software Packages, Flow Charts, Imagineering

· Mind Mapping, Fish Bone Method, ‘Is and Is Not’ and Brain Storming

· Tracking Timing and Costs, Contingencies

· Working With Suppliers and Sub-Contractors

Risk and Financial Risk Management in Advanced Project Management

· Defining Risk – Generally, and In a Project Management Setting

· Relating Risk Management to Projects and Project Management

· Financial Risk Management and Project Management

· Risk Exposure in a Project Setting

· Project Risk and ‘Market Dynamics’

· Liquidity in Project Management

· Operating Risk and Financial Liability

· Fraud Risk and Project Management

· Link Settlement Risk with ‘Survival Imperative’

· Project Management Strategy and Risk Management

· Currency Derivatives Market and ‘Project Sustainability’

Motivating Workers in Advanced Project Management

· Directing or Leading In a Project Setting

· The Concept of Motivation

· Applying Content Theories of Motivation to Project Settings

· Taylor’s Money-Motivator as a Reward Strategy

· Motivator-Hygiene Factor: Using Herzberg’s Ideas as a Basis for an Effective ‘Employee

· Relations Strategy’

· Applying Equity Theory: Recognising Inequity

· Goal-Setting Theory: Performance Management Application

World Bank’s Focus – A World Free of Poverty

Strategies

· Comprehensive Development Framework

· Country Assistance Strategies

· Poverty Reduction Strategies

· Non-lending Activities

· Debt Relief (HIPC)

· Low Income Countries Under Stress

Country Diversity

· Low Income Countries

· Middle Income Countries

· Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries

Resource Guide to Consulting, Supply and Contracting Opportunities in Projects

Financed by the World Bank

· Resource Guide: Project Cycle

· Resource Guide: Business Opportunities Basic

· Resource Guide: Business Opportunities – Pipeline

· Resource Guide: Business Opportunities – Implementation

· Resource Guide: Procurement Methods

· Resource Guide: Where to Find Information

· Resource Guide: Understanding the Role of Bank Staff

· Publishing Procurement Notices and Contract Awards

Guidelines Selection and Employment of Consultants under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits

and Grants by the World Bank

Procurement of Goods, Works and Non-Consulting Services under IBRD Loans and IDA

credits and Grants by World Bank Borrowers

Managing Litigation: The Court Process Providing, Providing Substantiating Evidence