Project Management: The Managerial Process (Irwin/McGraw Hill Series in Operations and Decision Sciences.) - Hardcover

Erik-w-larson-clifford-f-gray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0072347864 ISBN 13: 9780072347869

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1999

Synopsis

Project Management is a text with cases; it is suitable for a course in project management and for professionals who seek a project management handbook. This text addresses the major questions and issues the authors have encountered while teaching and consulting with practicing project managers in domestic and foreign countries. The text is very contemporary and up-to-date. This application-oriented text provides a road map for managing any type of project--for example, information technology, R & D, engineering design, construction, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing. The text helps the reader discover the strategic role of projects in contemporary organizations, how projects are prioritized, what tools and techniques can be used to plan and schedule projects, what organization and managerial styles will improve chances of project success, how project managers orchestrate the complex network of relationships, factors that contribute to the development of a hi! ! gh performing project team, the project system which will help gain some measure of control, how project managers prepare for a new international project in a foreign culture, and finally how senior management can develop a supportive organizational culture for implementing projects. Gray and Larson present a balanced view of the technical and socio/cultural dimensions of managing projects.

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About the Author

Professor Gray is professor emeritus of management at the College of Business, Oregon State University. He continues to teach undergraduate and graduate project management courses overseas and in the United States; he has personally taught more than 100 executive development seminars and workshops. His research and consulting interest have been divided equally between operations management and project management; he has published numerous articles in these areas, plus a text on project management. He has also conducted research with colleagues in the International Project Management Association. Cliff has been a member of the Project Management Institute since 1976 and was one of the founders of the Portland, Oregon, chapter. He has been the president of Project Management International, Inc. (training and consulting firm specializing in project management) since 1977. He received his BA in economics and management from Millikin University, MBA from Indiana Un! ! iversity, and doctorate in operations management from the College of Business, University of Oregon.

Erik Larson is professor and chairman of the department of management, marketing, and international business at the College of Business, Oregon State University. He teaches executive, graduate, and undergraduate courses on project management, organizational behavior, and leadership. His research and consulting activities focus on project management. He has published numerous articles on matrix management, product development, and project partnering. He has been a member of the Portland, Oregon, chapter of the Project Management Institute since 1984. In 1995 he worked as a Fulbright scholar with faculty at the Krakow Academy of Economics on modernizing Polish business education. He received a BA in psychology from Claremont McKenna College and a Ph.D. in management from State University of New York at Buffalo.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072347864
• ISBN 13: 9780072347869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512