Management & Leadership

Conducting a management project Instructions:

You are required to prepare four short written statements and a brief reflection statement demonstrating your knowledge and understanding of identifying, researching and producing a work-related project and evaluating its impact. You are encouraged to include examples from your work area or from an organisation with which you are familiar.

Your assignment should be between 2,500 to 3,000 words. You should make appropriate use of tables, graphs, diagrams, Gantt charts and flowcharts and you must reference any sources you have used to complete this assignment listing reference journals, books, web sites. Your assignment must include a bibliography.

Part 1: By completing this unit, you should now be able to identify and justify a management project (Learning Outcome 1)

- Determine an area of business activity and identify and justify the aim, scope and objective of the project. Terms of reference should be included and, where applicable, a work based breakdown structure document. Produce a project plan which has a clear rationale with justification, to your project sponsor.

Illustrate your answers with examples from your own workplace where possible.

(Indicative word count: 750 - 800)

Part 2: By completing this unit, you should now be able to conduct research using sources and analyse data and options (Learning Outcome 2)

- Identify the sources of data and information and the research methodology you will use in this project. You are required to analyse the results of your research and fully explain the analytical tools used during the project to arrive at your conclusions.

- You should determine how the option(s) or alternative course(s) of action meets the needs of the project sponsor.

Illustrate your answers with examples from your own workplace where possible.

(Indicative word count: 650 - 700)

Part 3: By completing this unit, you should now be able to make conclusions and recommendations that achieve the project aim (Learning Outcome 3)

- Evaluate the research and explain the decision making process and the decision making model(s) used in determining the final recommendations.

- You should also identify the stages involved in implementing your recommendations to improve your work area.

Illustrate your answers with examples from your own workplace where possible.

(Indicative word count: 700 - 750)

Part 4: By completing this unit, you should now be able to
 make conclusions and recommendations that achieve the project aim (Learning Outcome 3 continued)
 show and review the results of the project (Learning Outcome 4)

- Assess the impact of implementing your recommendations on your area of work and to the organisation as a whole.

- Explain the different types of communication methods available to you in presenting your project recommendations and the relative merits and pitfalls of each method. Determine the most appropriate method of communication for your project recommendations and explain why you consider this method to be most appropriate.

- After producing the results of your project discuss the impact of the project on the work area.

Illustrate your answers with examples from your own workplace where possible.

(Indicative word count: 800 - 850)

Reflective Statement

Describe how you believe the knowledge and understanding you have gained from completing this unit will help you to improve the way in which you develop project plans and control them in the future.

(Indicative word count: 250 - 300)Final Checklist

Before submitting this assignment for assessment check that you have completed the following:

1. Correctly referenced sources used within the assignment.

2. Included a bibliography.

3. Answered all the questions and completed the Reflective Statement.

4. Checked spelling, grammar and punctuation.