Interpersonal and Group Behavior

Catalog description

A human relations-based course that identifies the significant challenges that managing individuals on project teams represents. MANGT 535 Interpersonal and Group Behavior (3) Project management has been labeled by Fortune magazine as the number one career choice for the coming decade. Increasingly, organizations are adopting project management techniques and structures within their business framework. Project management offers the twin advantages of allowing organizations to create products and processes efficiently, through optimal use of resources, and rapidly, in order to respond to rapid time-to-market demands. This course serves as an important linkage between the technical demands of project management and the behavioral challenges that await project teams in the form of interpersonal behavior and group interactions. The role of the instructor in this course is to promote student learning of a wide variety of behavioral knowledge and skills required for successful project management. These include understanding the impact of interpersonal behavior and team-based performance on project success as well as recognizing the impact of issues such as motivation and negotiation skills for managing projects.