791-220 Project Management (NRM)

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Objectives:

This subject is designed to enable the student to:

• investigate and describe the fundamental aspects of human behaviour so that supervision and team work are managed efficiently and effectively;

• recognise and justify the purpose of management;

• define what projects are and identify the key aspects of a project;

• identify the variables within a system and describe how they operate;

• suggest what the connection between projects and management is and explain how they complement each other;

• apply the skills of networking to project management, and calculate the critical path, within a project;

• participate in field work that requires the logical formation of a project.

Content:

The content of project management consists of a section on organisational behaviour and administration, a section on project management techniques and finally a section on task management techniques.

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