Analysis of Staff Management Strategies at J&J Furnishings Limited

This report analyzes staff management strategies within J&J Furnishings Limited, focusing on project leadership and team dynamics. It explores the implementation of strategies such as maintaining staff relationships, empowering employees, and leveraging technology to achieve the company's goals of environmental sustainability, technological advancement, and manufacturing expansion. The report highlights the importance of collaboration, diversity management, employee training, and the use of modern project management tools. References to key literature support the discussion of these strategies, offering insights into how J&J Furnishings can effectively manage its staff and achieve its project objectives. The report also provides a detailed overview of the staff management plan and how it integrates with the company's vision.

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Introduction:
The aim of the paper is to conduct analysis of project leadership management skills
against the backdrop of the given case study. The study takes J&J Furnishings Limited as the
example and considers the three goals of the company, which form the crux of the
assignment. The first goal was to attain environment friendly methods of operations to benefit
the stakeholders. The second goal was to attain new heights in business by up gradation of
factors technology with aim of leveraging productivity. The third aim is to expand the present
manufacturing capabilities to meet the growing demands for J&J’s furniture products (jj-
furniture.com, 2017). The company is setting project team to achieve its goals. The various
sections would revolve around talent acquisition and management. The paper particularly
delves into strategies to manage the staff and lead them towards attainment of the
organisational goals.
Part B:
Staff management teams
The following staff management plan would be used by J&J Furnishing Limited to
manage the new projects:
Maintaining relationship between staff members of a project team:
The project managers should apply the strategy of maintaining healthy relationship
with the staff members in his team. He should encourage the team members to collaborate in
the formation of strategies to achieve targets. He should ensure that the senior and the junior
employees cooperate with each other. The project manager should ensure that all the team
members receive respect and equal opportunity to perform irrespective of their cultural
background. The basis of the task division among the team members should be their

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educational qualification and experiences. Thus, diversity management and maintaining
healthy relationship with the employees would enable the project to manage their staffs and
lead them towards achievement of the target (Burke, 2013).
Empowerment of employees:
Empowerment of employees would help the project managers to manage the project
teams more efficiently. This is because the employees would be able to assist the managers to
form strategies more efficiently and take decisions. The managers should form plans to
empower their employees to increase the eligibility of their subordinates (Mir & Pinnington,
2014). They should provide them with trainings and mentor them to enhance their skills and
knowledge. Thus, empowering employees would help the managers to manage the teams
with the cooperation and active participation of their subordinates in decision-making.
Leverage technology:
The project managers should use modern technology like Liquid Planner which would
allow them to manage various aspects of the projects like deadlines, buying materials and
managing the productivity of teammates. The modern software allow the project managers to
manage their staff by accessing them over smart phones even when they are on leave or
working from home (Schwalbe, 2015).

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References:
Burke, R. (2013). Project management: planning and control techniques. New Jersey, USA.
Mir, F. A., & Pinnington, A. H. (2014). Exploring the value of project management: linking
project management performance and project success. International journal of project
management, 32(2), 202-217.
Schwalbe, K. (2015). Information technology project management. Cengage Learning.
J & J Furniture. (2017). J & J Furniture. Retrieved 19 November 2017, from http://www.jj-
furniture.com/stores