In Human Factors in Project Management, author Zachary Wong—a noted trainer and acclaimed leader of more than 250 project teams—provides a summary of “people-based” management skills and techniques that can be applied when working in a team environment. This comprehensive resource brings together in one book new and current models in team motivation and integrates the most significant concepts in team motivation and behaviors into a single set of principles called “Human Factors.” Wong shows how these factors can be applied to the most challenging issues facing project managers today includingMotivating a diverse workforceFacilitating team decisionsResolving interpersonal conflictsManaging difficult peopleStrengthening team accountabilityCommunicationsLeadership
A Must for Anyone in Management or Project Management I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It wasn’t just another reference book for me. This gave me a lot of insight into team dynamics and the personalities behind the people on the team.As a Team Leader – once you understand the personalities on your team, youcan modify strategies and accomplish your goals without feeling like you are fighting against a certain personality type. You learn to work around and with the harder to deal with personalities. Being in the Information…
A non-technical definition of human factors: more HR and business pyschology than organisational psychology I teach project management to masters students and specifically project team leadership and communications – this book is written for that audience and will be very useful – I am trying it out this semester. I did a quick word search and the author makes no reference to the field of what is known as human factors engineering, which draws on organisational psychology, cognitive psychology and ergonomics. There are no Rasmussen, Hollnagel, Reason, Dekker, Weick, references in this book. But…