PROJ6006: Organizational Behaviour and Project Management at EWS

This report analyzes the case study of Ecological Wastewater Solutions (EWS), a company aiming for global expansion in wastewater management. The report focuses on identifying suitable leadership styles, particularly transformational leadership, for managing project teams within EWS, emphasizing its role in fostering vision, motivation, and change management. It then explores various tools and techniques, such as Ever note, JIRA, and Critical Path Project Management, for influencing the project team and managing project timelines. Furthermore, the report examines communication strategies, including informal methods, discussion boards, and collaboration apps, to facilitate external communication with stakeholders. The report also discusses the use of reward and expert power to motivate team members. Finally, it delves into the development of self-managed teams in agile projects, the application of the linear model, and steps to address project challenges. The report provides a comprehensive overview of project management strategies applicable to EWS's expansion goals, drawing on the provided case study and relevant literature.

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Organizational Behaviour and Project Management
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Answer 1)
Ecological Wastewater Solutions Pty Limited (EWS) helps in the delivering of
wastewater management system that is facing the prospect for the global expansion. The
company wants to expand into the new and the challenging market that can help in the
growth of the company. The leadership style that can help in managing the project team
would be the transformational style of the leadership that can play an important role in
transforming the team. The transformational style of the leadership can help in the creation of
a vision in the company which can facilitate the growth of the company. The transformational
style of the leadership can help in motivating the followers that can be useful for EWS. It can
play an important role in the retention of the employees in the organization. It can play an
important role in managing the change that can bring about improvements in the performance
of an organization. EWS needs the transformational style of the leadership that can help it in
appeasing the international regulatory bodies along with the markets (Meng & Boyd, 2017).
EWS can implement transformational style that can help the company in taking the new
markets and the countries. It can help the company in taking the advantages of the prevailing
conditions within the market. This kind of the leadership style is preferable over the
democratic style of the leadership as it can help in providing proper guidance to the
employees of organization. The decisions of the team members may not prove to be
appropriate for EWS when it wants to carry out expansion in the foreign markets. The
decisions and the inputs of the employees of EWS may not prove to be appropriate for the
company and it may cost the company in the long term.
Answer 2)
There are various tools and the techniques that can be used by the project manager in
influencing the project team of EWS. The tools that can greatly help the project manager are

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Ever note and JIRA. Ever note can prove to be useful for EWS as it can help in building the
knowledge base of the project managers. It can help the project manager in storing various
kinds of information pertaining to the project files (Wong, 2007). JIRA is the web based tool
that provides project managers with ability of managing the multiple teams and the projects.
It can help the people in knowing about the task status that can greatly help in facilitating the
project. The project management techniques that can be used by the project manager pertains
to Critical Path Project Management that can be of great use in up gradation of the IT systems
along with the processes of the organization. It can help in processing the orders in a timely
manner that can help in the completion of project of EWS. It can help the projects in running
in a seamless manner that can greatly benefit the organization. It can help the project
managers in developing clear picture pertaining to overall timeframe of the project that can
help in the implementation of the project. It can greatly help the managers in compressing a
project within a very short span of the time.
Answer 3)
There are various tools that can be used by EWS that can help it in managing
communication outside of project group. External communication is an important aspect in a
project that can help in maintaining the communication in between the team members and
that of the project stakeholders. The diagonal communication that takes place in between the
various functional divisions of organization can greatly help in completing a project. The tool
that can be used for managing the communication is the informal mode of communication
that can greatly benefit the employees of the organization. The ad-hoc discussions can be
implemented that can greatly help the project manager in the management of communication
outside that of the project group (Pmexamsmartnotes.com., 2019). The discussion boards,
status reports along with the collaboration apps can be used by the project manager for
maintaining communication outside that of the project group. The status reports can help in

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the discussion of the issues and the delays that can greatly help in the perfect implementation
of the project. The collaboration software can help the team in working in an efficient manner
that can improve the communication within a project. It can help in fostering the innovation
and increasing the transparency in a project.
Answer 4)
The kind of power that can be used for motivating the team members in EWS are the
reward power and the expert power. These can prove to beneficial in the successful
completion of a project. The reward power can help in the arena of the delegation that can
help in dividing the responsibilities in an organization. The promotions can be used by the
project manager that can help the project manager in encouraging the team members within a
project. The project manager should have the power of the in-depth knowledge that can help
in the successful implementation of a project. A project manager having power can help in
persuading the other employees that can help in building trust within a project team (Kerzner
& Kerzner, 2017). A person who has expertise in a particular field can share the knowledge
to the other members that can greatly help successfully carrying out a project. The technical
expert can help in providing guidance to the other members of a project that can help in
avoiding the disruption in EWS. It can help the projects in running in a seamless manner that
can help in avoiding disruption for the clients. It can play an important role in the
maintenance of the employee satisfaction that can help in providing motivation to the
employees of organization. It can greatly help in the efficient delivery of the services within a
project.
Answer 5)
There are various methods that can be used that can help in the development of the
self-managed teams in relation to the Agile projects. The teams can be managed with the help

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of communication that can help in providing the outcome in relation to a project. The
methods that can help the project manager in managing the team is by creation of a culture
that helps in fostering the aspect of team work in the event of an agile project (Schwalbe,
2015). Agile project management is indicative of an approach that helps in delivering the
requirements in a manner that is incremental across project life cycle. The communication of
the project leader can help him in exhibiting the values that can help in the creation of trust
during the course of a project. The linear method can be applied in the case of the agile
projects.
Answer 6)
The linear model in relation to the life cycle model of the project management can
help in carrying out the objectives in relation to a project. The Critical Path Project
Management can help in delivery of a project within time and within that of the cost
estimates (Svejvig & Andersen, 2015). The critical path method can prove to be useful in
scheduling the project activities. It can be used together with that of the program evaluation
along with the review technique. This process can help in determining the activities that are
critical that can reduce the time in relation to the completion of a project. This method can be
if great use in helping the workers select that of the logical end point that can help in the
identification of the longest series pertaining to the dependent activities. It can help in
assessing the aspect of the crash duration that can help in shifting the resources in a manner
that can help in completing an activity in relation to a project (Eskerod & Jepsen, 2016). It
can help in understanding the relationship in between the aspect of cost and the duration of an
activity that can prove to beneficial in relation to a project. It can help in monitoring of
schedule that can help project manager in tracking critical activities. It can help the project
manager in understanding the fact that the non-critical activities can be delayed beyond that
of the total float.

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Answer 7)
There are various steps that can be undertaken by the project manager that can help in
removing the challenges that are faced by the project team. The project manager can handle
the challenges by identifying and meeting the stakeholders. He can meet with the project
sponsors that can help in discussing the needs in relation to a project (Schwalbe, 2017). An
essential step that the project manager should take revolves around establishing the base lines
in relation to the project scope and the budget. The project manager should know how to
prioritize the goals that can help in addressing the project plan. The project manager should
define the deliverables that can help in meeting the goals of the project. The project manager
should decide the time that would be allotted for each task that can help in its smooth
execution. The steps that should be undertaken by project manager in alleviating challenges is
that the team should be involved in that of the planning process (Harrison & Lock, 2017).
The project manager can also conduct a risk assessment that can help in the identification of
the issues that can arise during the course of a project. The project manager should present
project plan to that of the stakeholders that can help in meeting the expectations of the
stakeholders. The stakeholders should be made known about the time and the man power that
can help in successfully executing a project. The stakeholders should be communicated in a
clear manner that can help in carrying out the project.

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