Project Human Resource Management

The most important resource for a project is people. How to effectively manage the project's human resources becomes a key factor in project success or failure. The project's Human Resource Management Knowledge Area includes four activities: Planning human resource management, setting up a project team, building a project team, and managing a project team.

I. Planning Human Resource Management

Planning human resource management is the process of identifying and recording project roles, responsibilities, required skills, reporting relationships, and preparing staffing management plans. The main role of this process is to establish the project roles and responsibilities, the project organization diagram, and the staffing management plan that includes the personnel recruitment and demobilization schedule.

Planning Human Resource Management: inputs, tools and technologies and outputs

Plan the data flow chart of Human Resource Management

 

1.1 Organizational theory

Organization theory describes the behavior of individuals, teams, and organizational units. The effective use of general knowledge in organizational theory can save the time, cost, and manpower investment for preparing human resource management plans, and improve the planning efficiency. In different organizational structures, people may have different performances and performance, which may show different communication characteristics. It is very important to realize this. In addition, you can flexibly use the leadership style based on organizational theories to adapt to changes in team maturity during the project lifecycle.

2. Build a project team

Building a project team is a process of identifying the availability of human resources and building a team for project activities. The main role of this process is to instruct the team to select and assign their responsibilities to form a successful team.

Build a project team: input, tools, technology, and output

Data Flow chart for building a project team

Iii. Construction Project Team

Building a project team is a process to improve the working ability, promote the interaction of team members, improve the overall atmosphere of the team, and improve the project performance. The main role of this process is to improve team collaboration, enhance interpersonal skills, motivate team members, reduce staff turnover, and improve overall project performance.

Construction Project Team: inputs, tools and technologies and outputs

Data Flow Diagram of the Construction Project Team

3.1 personnel evaluation tools

The personnel evaluation tool allows the project manager and the project team to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the members. These tools help the project manager evaluate the preferences and aspirations of team members, how team members process and organize information, how team members make decisions, and how they like to deal with people.

Various tools are available, such as attitude surveys, detail evaluations, structured interviews, capability tests, and focus group discussions. These tools facilitate understanding, trust, loyalty, and communication among team members, and continuously improve the team's effectiveness throughout the project.

4. Manage the project team

Managing a project team is a process that tracks the performance of team members, provides feedback, solves problems, and manages team changes to optimize project performance. The main role of this process is to influence team behavior, manage conflicts, solve problems, and evaluate the performance of team members.

Manage Project Teams: inputs, tools and technologies and outputs

Manage the data flow chart of the project team

Project Human Resource Management