Questions
a) What are the implications of CIC’s approach to staffing project teams? Is the company using project teams as training grounds for talented fast-trackers, or as dumping grounds for poor performers?
b) How would you advise the CEO to correct the problem? Where would you start?
c) Discuss how issues of organizational structure and power played a role in the manner in which project management declined in effectiveness at CIC.
Question 2 Reflect on the assigned readings for the week ( Chapter 6) Identify what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding.
Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:
“Trust can actually encourage disagreement and conflict among team members.” Explain why this could be the case.
Identify the five major methods for resolving conflict. Give an example of how each might be applied in a hypothetical project team conflict episode.