SCHEDULE
Department:
Course:
Number of students
Course leader:
Week
9
9
Day
Mon
Mon
Business Administration
Project management and leadership
in professional organizations – for PhD
students, 7,5 hp
Maximum 30
Björn Trägårdh, 786 1536
Date
Feb 25
Feb 25
Room
B 21?
B 21?
Time
9-12
13-16
Teacher
BT
BEL
Semester:
Spring 2013
Content
Introduction
The project directive and project
organization
Tonnquist chapt. 1, 2, 4
e-mail project directive to BEL no later than noon 28th t of February
10
Mon Mar 4
B 21?
13-16
BEL
Starting a project and project phases
Tonnquist chapt. 1, 3
11
Mon Mar 11
B 21?
9-12
BEL
Stake holder-, risk- and success
analysis
Tonnquist chapt. 3, 6
e-mail stake holder-, risk- and success analysis to BEL no later than 14th of March
12
Mon Mar 18
D 34?
13-16
BEL
Goal directed project management
Tonnquist chapt. 5, 8, 9
e-mail mile stone plan to BEL no later than 21 of March
13
Mon Mar 25
B 41?
9-12
BEL
Project environment
Tonnquist chapt. 14
14
Mon Apr 8
B 21?
9-12
BT
Management, leadership and
employeeship.
Tonnquist chapt. 10.
16
Mon Apr 15
B 34?
9-12
BEL
Project communication
Tonnquist chapt. 7
e-mail communication plan to BEL no later than 18th of March
17
Mon Apr 22
D 34?
9-12
BEL,
Leadership in professional
ML
organizations. Articles: Kozes
(1979), Mintzberg (1981).
17
Mon Apr 29
C 31?
9-12 a
BT
Literature seminars on the articles
C 35?
9-12 b
BEL
of the course
C31?
13-16 c
BT
C35?
13-16 d
BEL
18
Mon May 6
B 34?
9-12
BEL
Project termination, evaluation and
implementation.
Tonnquist chapt. 11, 12, 13
e-mail a) individual reflections on leadership and b) group reports based on interviews with managers
to BT no later than 8th of May
19
Mon May 13
B 34?
9-12
BT
Group presentations of interviews
with managers + discussion of
individual reflections on leadership
e-mail your individual project plan to BT no later than 16th of May
20
Mon May 20
B 34
9-12
BT
Discussion of project plans
+ course evaluation
Lärare:
BT – Björn Trägårdh, Bjorn.Tragardh@handels.gu.se, 786 1536 (kursansvarig)
BEL – Bengt-Erik Larsson, bengt-erik.larsson@handels.gu.se, 0706 391059
(ML – Marianne Leffler, Marianne.Leffler@gu.se 786 1116, GU:s repr.)
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Literature:
Book:
Tonnquist, Bo (2008), Project Management. Sanoma Utbildning.
Tonnquist, Bo (2010), Project Management. Student Learning Guide. Sanoma Utbildning.
Articles on projects:
Engwall, M. (2003) No project is an island: linking project to history and context. Research
Policy 32 (2003), pp 789-808
Lundin R. A. & Söderholm A. (1995) A Theory of the Temporary Organization. Scandinavian
Journal of Management 11(4): 437-455.
Söderlund, J., (2004) On the broadening scope of research on projects: a review and a model for
analysis. International Journal of Project Management. Vol 22 Issue pp 655-667.
De Meyer, A., Loch, C. and Pitch, M. (2002), Managing project Uncertinty: From Variation to
Chaos. MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter 2002, Vol 43, Issue 2, pp. 60-67.
Liu, J., Chen, H., Jiang, J. & Klein, G., Task completion competency and project management
performance: The influence of control and user contribution. International Journal of Project
Management 28 (2010) 220–227.
Lund Jepsen, A. & Eskerod, P., Stakeholder analysis in projects: Challenges in using current
guidelines in the real world. International Journal of Project Management 27 (2009) 335–
343.
Articles on professional organizations:
Kouzes, J. & Mico, P., (1979),. “Domain Theory: An introduction to organizational
behavior in Human Service Organizations”, Journal of Applied Behavioral
Science, Vol. 15, nr. 4, s. 449-469.
Mintzberg, H. (1981), Organization design; fashion or fit? Harvard Business Review, Jan/Feb
1981, Vol. 59, Issue 1 pp 103-116.
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