Managing Project Communications, Stakeholders and Human Resources
Overview
- Planning for human resource management: identify and document project roles and responsibilities, and create a project organization chart.
- Tools and techniques used to document team member roles, including RACI chart, organization charts, and other tools.
- Assembling the project team: obtain the required skills based on project requirements.
- Developing the project team: measure and improve team members’ skills and team member interactions to ensure a healthy working environment.
- Managing the project team: manage the performance of team members, leadership, constructive feedback, creating an efficient and effective project team.
- Planning the communication process and determining the most appropriate approach for project communication that will satisfy the stakeholders’ information needs.
- Methods for internal, formal, vertical, official, written and oral communication throughout project execution.
- Effective communication; communication models used in project management: appropriate technology and communication methods.
- Identification of stakeholders: understanding the groups or individuals that could have an impact on the project, their involvement and influence.
- Planning stakeholder management: develop management strategies to ensure all stakeholders are involved.
- Managing and controlling stakeholder engagement by using various tools and methods such as the stakeholder register.
- Integrating communication, human resource and stakeholder management into the overall project management framework to ensure overall project success.
Lectures, case studies, exercises and group discussions.
| Tests* | 20% - 40% |
| Assignments/Term Project(s) (min 2) | 20% - 40% |
| Participation | 5% - 10% |
| Final Examination | 20% - 30% |
| 100% |
* A combination of quizzes and/or midterms, with no single assessment in this group worth more than 25% of the final grade.
Notes:
Students must achieve a grade of at least 50% on the combined examination components to pass the course.
Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
Students who successfully complete the course will be able to:
- identify and document project roles and establish reporting relationships;
- describe the communication process and its use in a project context;
- develop a staffing management plan for a project;
- develop a human resource management plan for a project;
- create a RACI (responsible-accountable-consulted-informed) chart;
- use appropriate human resource tools and techniques to develop and manage a project team;
- manage communication processes using various tools and techniques;
- develop a communications management plan that meets stakeholder requirements;
- create a stakeholder register;
- establish sources used to identify and define project communication requirements; and
- integrate the knowledge learned in project communication management, project human resource management and project stakeholder management into the overall management of a complex project.
Singh, Harjit, Mastering Project Human Resource Management: Effectively Organize and Communicate with all Project Stakeholders. Latest Edition (Pearson)
or any alternative text approved by the Business Department
Optional:
Project Management Institute, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Latest Edition, (optional but recommended).
Requisites
Prerequisites
Corequisites
Courses listed here must be completed either prior to or simultaneously with this course:
- No corequisite courses
Equivalencies
Courses listed here are equivalent to this course and cannot be taken for further credit:
- No equivalency courses
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
| Institution | Transfer details for BUSN 3610 |
|---|---|
| Athabasca University (AU) | AU ADMN 3XX (3) |
| Coast Mountain College (CMTN) | CMTN BADM 2XX (3) |
| College of the Rockies (COTR) | COTR MGMT 3XX (3) |
| Coquitlam College (COQU) | No credit |
| Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | KPU SOBU 2XXX (3) |
| Simon Fraser University (SFU) | SFU BUS 2XX (3) |
| Thompson Rivers University (TRU) | TRU MNGT 3XXX (3) |
| University of Northern BC (UNBC) | DOUG BUSN 3610 (3) & DOUG BUSN 3620 (3) & DOUG BUSN 3630 (3) & DOUG BUSN 4640 (3) = UNBC COMM 451 (3) |
| University of Victoria (UVIC) | UVIC COM 2XX (1.5) |
Course Offerings
Winter 2025
| CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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CRN
15593
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Fri | Instructor last name
Kim
Instructor first name
Min Jin
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Course status
Waitlist
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BUSN 3610 001 - This section is restricted to Business Management Diplomas, BBA Management, BSc Health Info Management, and PDD Project Management until Monday, December 02, 2024, at 9:00 am.