PRM701 Project Management: Quality Control, Team Power & Effectiveness

This report provides an analysis of project management principles, focusing on quality control measures and the dynamics of project teams. It discusses how quality control can reduce defects and improve project processes, outputs, and objectives. Furthermore, it examines the advantages and disadvantages of different forms of power used by project managers to encourage team performance, including coercive, reward, expert, and referent power. The report references academic sources to support its claims, offering a comprehensive overview of these critical aspects of project management. Desklib provides students access to a wealth of similar assignments and resources.

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
PRM701 Project Management Principles
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Question 1
Explain how quality control measures on projects can reduce the number of defects and
inefficiencies along with improving project process, outputs and objectives.
Answer
The process of project management can be considered one of the most vital parts In the
process of developing a project and driving the project towards the factor of success. There
are different factors, which may be included within the process/concept of project
management; one of the important factor is the quality control measures on the working of
the project during the phase of implementation. The main factors, which may be included into
the concept of quality control, is to take into consideration that the vital parts of the projects
are proper working. The main sectors, which can be focused in the concept, are explained
below:
 Project process: The quality control aspect can directly affect the sector of quality
control within the working of a project. In most of the cases it can be seen that project
process should be audited in a particular time interval. This would be directly affecting
the internal as well as external working of the project. The process of project can be a
factor which affects the project timeline or duration and the overall budget of the project.
It can also affect the overall process of the project which basically form the quality of the
project.
 Project output: It can be stated here that the quality control measure can directly impact
the project output. It can be stated that if there is a proper investigation and testing of the
different process of the project relating to quality control the goal of the project can be
reached easily. In most of the cases it can be seen that project output can be directly
related to the aspect of the customer satisfaction level. Routine auditing can be very much

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beneficial in a way which alters and minimizes the factor of risk associated with the
project. The risk factors sometimes can lead to directly failure of the project. It must be
seen if the risk factor are encountered it should be taken into consideration that it does not
affect the working of the project as well as effect the output of the project.
 Objectives: The objectives of the project are predefined during the initial planning of the
project. The aspect of the objectives of the project are set taking into consideration the
quality of the project. The team members of the project efficiently work towards the
common objectives of the projects which majorly include the aspect of the quality into it
as a default sector. It is stated as default sector due to the factor that quality of the project
with the orientation of the objectives can be few of the critical factors on the overall
internal and external working of the project. Objectives of the project should be steadily
be defined as a factor which drives a project towards the factor of success. It can be stated
here that if a project meets the stated budget and time cannot be termed as a successful
project but should also take into consideration the objectives which are predefined during
the initial implementation of the project.
Question 2
Managing project teams require project managers to optimise often project performance
through different forms of power to encourage team members to perform. With reference to
any four forms of power, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each and their overall
effectiveness in encouraging performance.
Answer
The four types of power, which can be discussed in this context, are stated below:

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1. Coercive
Advantage: The main advantage, which can be stated here, is in the context of providing
a better performance under pressure. This type of power is mainly conveyed through the fear,
which is related to fear of losing a job or being demoted from the position. The aspect of the
power is achieved from the means of threatening others.
Disadvantage: It can be stated to be one of the issues, which affect the stress factor of the
project member due to the delivery approach of the task, which is appointed towards them.
2. Reward
Advantage: The interest of the employee can be directly increased with the compliance
of one’s wishes. The aspect of reward is mainly taken into consideration by the factor of
promotion, raises, bonus and extra time off during the working hours.
Disadvantage: The main disadvantage, which can be seen in this concept, is the urge to
get more. They can expect something more and if they do not get it, it can directly affect the
moral of the working.
3. Expert
Advantage: The main advantage, which can be seen in this context, is that the field of
expertise would be directly affecting the internal working of the organisation and this would
be very much beneficial in a way, which would be altering the internal as well as external
working of the organisation.
Disadvantage: It can be sometimes be seen that the sector of expertise can put some of
the employee in a position, which would be directly affecting the performance of other
employee. The team members should always have an impact on other workers and should be
somewhat helpful which would be directly affecting the performance of the overall team.

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4. Referent
Advantage: The main advantage, which can be seen in this sector, is the trust, which is
seen in the sector and the faith on the performance of other team members. It can be a major
advantage due to the factor that it would be directly affecting the performance. Performance
factor can be very much important in the overall performance of the project and should take
into consideration all the vital parts of the project. Success can be stated to be directly
proportional to the aspect of the referent, which is imposed into the working of the project.
Project objectives are sometimes linked with the aspect of the referent of the project.
Disadvantage: The main disadvantage is the standard of work, which is achieved in this
context. It can be stated here that it would be very much a loss from the viewpoint of the
project overall working if the project does not reach the level of satisfaction. The trust issue
can be sometimes a negative part in the overall working of the project and can sometimes
lead to complete project failure. The trust factor should be a factor of emphasis, which would
be directly benefiting the success factor of the project.

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