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• This report is based on the following requirement -
• ‘People are motivated by a desire to do their best for the project’.
• You have two members of your project team that do not seem to be working effectively; first there is Tom who is a new graduate with very limited work experience who comes to work late, goes early and spends much of his day talking and surfing the Internet; Tom has not responded to your suggestions he gets down to work.
• Secondly, there is Harriet who is an experienced project manager with has previously shown considerable levels of skill and ability to work hard, but she has shown no interest in this project and continuously called in sick or claimed she has ‘family issues’. You have attempted to ask her to focus on the project in hand but without any improvement being shown.
• Critically discuss the role of motivation in project management utilising appropriate theoretical models to identify how project staff can be motivated. Include in your answer a discussion of the way motivation develops and the role of leadership and communication in this process. The focus of your answer must be on your own organisation (or one that you have worked within) and ways that you might deal with Tom and Harriet.

Description

The study shows that applying various methods of motivation, it helps in the project management of any organization (here, Honda, a top company in Japan). However, there are certain critics in the application of the theory in the practical world, still it is very much beneficial and inspiring for both skilled and unskilled (here, Tom and Harriet respectively) workers. Also in this global competitive environment, effective leadership style is necessary to reduce the failure of assigned projects to some organizations. From the effective leadership styles only it is possible to achieve organizational goal productively. Leadership styles affect on the employee performance and productivity. However, for performing these actions a project is made accordingly and a group of people responds in a different way which is not good for an organization’s reputation. Thus leadership style is taken into the course for a better communication process and motivation towards the subordinates to do the best for their project.