Project Resource Managment

You have fifteen members in your project team. You have called for a project status

meeting without prior notice. There have been too many sidebar conversations and

arguments. As a result, you have achieved nothing substantial from the meeting. To

achieve orderliness in the meeting next time, you should:

• Decrease the number of people in the meeting

• Publish a meeting agenda

• Ensure that you control the channels of communication

• Give incentives to team members for conforming to desired meeting norms

You are managing a critical project with virtual teams located in eight countries. At

times, team members find it difficult to understand and interpret what others are

communicating via tele-conferencing. From a communication management point of

view, this difficulty in transmitting and understanding messages can also be referred to

as:

• Disturbance

• Noise

• Interference

• Breakdown in encode-decode model

Due to a shift in company objectives, your project is expected to terminate before

completion. Team members are scared and disappointed as they learn they will be out

of a project. As the project manager, what should you do in this situation?

• Ignore them, they are no longer your concern.

• Talk to the sponsor to try to reinstate the project.

• Delegate to HR for post project staff assignment.

• Call them for a meeting to discuss team members concerns.

A project manager has to manage conflict in an organization. Which of the following

could be the source of least conflict in an organization?

• Weak matrix structure with multiple managers to report to

• Low position in the organization hierarchy

• Roles that are not well defined

• Work pressure and high stress

In your project, you are in the process of determining the project roles,

responsibilities, and reporting relationships for your team members. Which of the

following would you NOT define/create at the end of this process?

• Project staff assignments

• Roles and responsibilities

• Project organization charts

• Staffing management plan

Your company has a projectized organization structure. As your project nears

completion, you notice that your team members are more interested in trying to find new

positions rather than properly discharging their duties. Their motivation is:

• Safety

• Social

• Psychological

• Self-esteem

In your project, you are in the process of determining the project roles, responsibilities

and reporting relationships for your team members. Which of the following is not used

for this process?

• Activity resource requirements

• Enterprise environmental factors

• Organizational process assets

• Team performance assessments

You are managing the project for setting up an oil rig in the Pacific Ocean. Which of

the following could be a valid constraint when you are doing human resource planning

for your project?

• Weak matrix organization structure

• Unlimited budget, since the project is very critical to meet compliance needs

• Oil price increasing to more than $60 a barrel

• Oil price decreasing below $40 per barrel

To get the work done, the supervisor threatens punishment and strictly supervises

the work. The supervisor believes in:

• Theory Y (McGregor Model)

• Theory X (McGregor Model)

• Maslow`s hierarchy of needs

• Referent power

Your organization has to follow some guidelines and policies while recruiting people.

From your project perspective, these guidelines and policies will be classified as:

• Regulations

• Best practices

• Assumptions

• Constraints