Project Manager Politics and Project

Project Manager Politics and project management should not mix. Agree or Disagree and support your position. I agree that politics and management should not mix. Managers need to be impartial and neutral in order to get the job done in the most efficient and effective way possible. However, because managers are human beings like the rest of us, there is almost no way that they can be completely impartial.

There will always be office politics going on because people have preferences based on who they like and who they do not like. Certainly there will be individuals in the office who will pull their weight much more than other people will.

When this takes place, they are going to be favored by management and therefore possibly disliked by the others who they work with because they are seen as trying to get in good with the boss, when in reality they are just good at their jobs - and often enjoy what they do.

They really should not be treated any differently by management than any other competent employee, but they often are because managers have a difficult time ignoring the fact that the person is clearly better at the job than most of his or her peers. This fact becomes hard to ignore and hard to hide. As much as is possible, though, management should stay out of any office politics and avoid creating any. It breeds bad blood between employees.

While different styles and personalities and opinions are often good in the workplace, too much dissent among the ranks is obviously something that people want to avoid. One of the best ways to avoid that is to ensure that people are treated equally as much and as often is possible. If a manager can separate himself or herself from the politics of the office, he or she can set a good example for the employees.

They will then resent the 'good guy' in the office less than they otherwise would and that will help to keep the office working in harmony - effectively. Strong leadership is not always necessary to successfully complete a project. Agree or disagree and support your conclusion. Strong leadership is very important in a project. Many projects get started well but then they fall apart because the leadership that they have is weak or virtually non-existent.

To finish a project the leadership must be strong - but there are no rules that say that leadership has to come from the original leader. If a person 'drops the ball' when it comes to following through on a project, there is no reason at all that another person cannot step in and take over that project, working with it until it is completed.

Sometimes a manager will get employees all fired up and going on a project and then he or she will be called away through unforeseen circumstances to do something else. That group is then left somewhat lost, and if someone in that group will step up and become the leader the project can continue successfully.

The danger with that, however, is that these kinds of natural leaders are often resented somewhat by their peers and it is possible that taking the reins too strongly will be worse than not taking them at all. There is a delicate balance there between natural leadership abilities and office politics, and the employee who crosses it often finds himself or herself ostracized from the group because of the idea that he or she tried to 'take over' the group.

In truth, though, that take over had to come from somewhere if the project was to be completed on time and correctly. A project can be completed without strong leadership, but with what kind of quality as the result? Projects without strong leaders are not as good. They do not have as much thought put into them, and people do not make enough of an effort to ensure that they are done correctly.

They can make a break a department or a company if they are big projects that are undertaken or presented to others. They need good leaders who will stay around and see them through. What is meant by the term groupthink and identify four symptoms? Groupthink is a term for a collective mindset. It happens when people work together for too long, and it happens when people who are very similar get together. Symptoms include: excessive stereotyping, illusions of morality, self-censorship, and pressure for conformity.

Groupthink can be dangerous because it leads to serious problems within a department or organization and can make completing projects almost impossible. There is no real creativity when it comes to groupthink because everyone is trying to follow the same path. Even when this path veers off into dangerous territory, it is like the members of the group are blinded by anything but themselves and their little pocket of ideas. They do not move forward toward what should be taking place, and they only look at what they see.