CIS 517 Term Paper: Project Managers and Ethics, Leadership, and Technology

Project managers do a lot more than calculations and reporting; they must keep the team on track, ensure ethical decisions are made, deal with conflict, and, depending on the type of organization, they may perform employee evaluations, issue bonuses, hire and lay off personnel, and other tasks. In this paper, you will discuss some of the project management activities that don’t produce deliverables.

Write a fifteen (15) page paper in which you:

Describe the different organizational structures as it relates to project management (i.e., functional, project-based, matrix).
Discuss at least two (two) different roles that project managers can play in organizational leadership.
Describe at least three (3) human resource factors that affect project management.
Recommend five (5) conflict resolution techniques that project managers can utilize to keep team members productive.
Explain at least three (3) leadership approaches and when they are best utilized.
Describe five (5) ethical situations or dilemmas that project managers might face in their role within an organization.
Summarize tools and techniques commonly used in project procurement.
Assess the role of technology in project management.
Provide your expectations for the development of the project management field aided by modern technologies.
Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Describe and demonstrate ethical practices in project management.
Examine the human resource factors that can impact project management.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in IT project management.
Write clearly and concisely about issues in IT project management using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Points: 190	Term Paper: Project Managers and Ethics, Leadership, and Technology

	Criteria	Unacceptable	Fair	Proficient	Exemplary
	Criteria	Below 70% F	70-79% C	80-89% B	90-100% A
		Below 70% F	70-79% C	80-89% B	90-100% A
	1. Describe the	Did not submit or	Partially described	Satisfactorily	Thoroughly
	different organizational	incompletely	the different	described the	described the
	structures as it relates	described the	organizational	different	different
	to project management	different	structures as it	organizational	organizational
	(i.e., functional, project-	organizational	relates to project	structures as it	structures as it
	based, matrix).	structures as it	management.	relates to project	relates to project
	Weight: 10%	relates to project		management.	management.
	Weight: 10%	management.
		management.

	2. Discuss at least two	Did not submit or	Partially discussed	Satisfactorily	Thoroughly
	(two) different roles that	incompletely	at least two (two)	discussed at least	discussed at least
	project managers can	discussed at least	different roles that	two (two) different	two (two) different
	play in organizational	two (two) different	project managers	roles that project	roles that project
	leadership.	roles that project	can play in	managers can play	managers can play
	Weight: 10%	managers can play	organizational	in organizational	in organizational
	Weight: 10%	in organizational	leadership.	leadership.	leadership.
		in organizational	leadership.	leadership.	leadership.
		leadership.

	3. Describe at least	Did not submit or	Partially described	Satisfactorily	Thoroughly
	three (3) human	incompletely	at least three (3)	described at least	described at least
	resource factors that	described at least	human resource	three (3) human	three (3) human
	affect project	three (3) human	factors that affect	resource factors	resource factors
	management.	resource factors that	project	that affect project	that affect project
	Weight: 10%	affect project	management.	management.	management.
	Weight: 10%	management.
		management.

	4. Recommend five (5)	Did not submit or	Partially	Satisfactorily	Thoroughly
	conflict resolution	incompletely	recommended five	recommended five	recommended five
	techniques that project	recommended five	(5) conflict	(5) conflict	(5) conflict
	managers can utilize to	(5) conflict resolution	resolution	resolution	resolution
	keep team members	techniques that	techniques that	techniques that	techniques that
	productive.	project managers	project managers	project managers	project managers
	Weight: 10%	can utilize to keep	can utilize to keep	can utilize to keep	can utilize to keep
	Weight: 10%	team members	team members	team members	team members
		team members	team members	team members	team members
		productive.	productive.	productive.	productive.

	5. Explain at least three	Did not submit or	Partially explained	Satisfactorily	Thoroughly
	(3) leadership	incompletely	at least three (3)	explained at least	explained at least
	approaches and when	explained at least	leadership	three (3) leadership	three (3) leadership
	they are best utilized.	three (3) leadership	approaches and	approaches and	approaches and
	Weight: 10%	approaches and	when they are best	when they are best	when they are best
	Weight: 10%	when they are best	utilized.	utilized.	utilized.
		when they are best	utilized.	utilized.	utilized.
		utilized.

	6. Describe five (5)	Did not submit or	Partially described	Satisfactorily	Thoroughly
	ethical situations or	incompletely	five (5) ethical	described five (5)	described five (5)
	dilemmas that project	described five (5)	situations or	ethical situations or	ethical situations or
	managers might face in	ethical situations or	dilemmas that	dilemmas that	dilemmas that
	their role within an	dilemmas that	project managers	project managers	project managers
	organization.	project managers	might face in their	might face in their	might face in their
	Weight: 10%	might face in their	role within an	role within an	role within an
	Weight: 10%	role within an	organization.	organization.	organization.
		role within an	organization.	organization.	organization.
		organization.

	7. Summarize tools and	Did not submit or	Partially	Satisfactorily	Thoroughly
	techniques commonly	incompletely	summarized tools	summarized tools	summarized tools
	used in project	summarized tools	and techniques	and techniques	and techniques
	procurement.	and techniques	commonly used in	commonly used in	commonly used in

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Weight: 10%	commonly used in	project	project	project
Weight: 10%	project procurement.	procurement.	procurement.	procurement.
	project procurement.	procurement.	procurement.	procurement.
8. Assess the role of	Did not submit or	Partially assessed	Satisfactorily	Thoroughly
technology in project	incompletely	the role of	assessed the role of	assessed the role of
management.	assessed the role of	technology in	technology in	technology in
Weight: 10%	technology in project	project	project	project
Weight: 10%	management.	management.	management.	management.
	management.	management.	management.	management.

9. Provide your	Did not submit or	Partially provided	Satisfactorily	Thoroughly
expectations for the	incompletely	your expectations	provided your	provided your
expectations for the	provided your	for the development	expectations for the	expectations for the
development of the	provided your	for the development	expectations for the	expectations for the
development of the	expectations for the	of the project	development of the	development of the
project management	expectations for the	of the project	development of the	development of the
project management	development of the	management field	project	project
field aided by modern	development of the	management field	project	project
field aided by modern	project management	aided by modern	management field	management field
technologies.	project management	aided by modern	management field	management field
technologies.	field aided by	technologies.	aided by modern	aided by modern
Weight: 10%	field aided by	technologies.	aided by modern	aided by modern
Weight: 10%	modern		technologies.	technologies.
	modern		technologies.	technologies.
	technologies.

10. 4 references	No references	Does not meet the	Meets number of	Exceeds number of
Weight: 2%	provided	required number of	required references;	required references;
Weight: 2%		references; some or	all references high	all references high
		references; some or	all references high	all references high
		all references poor	quality choices.	quality choices.
		quality choices.

11. Clarity, writing	More than 6 errors	5-6 errors present	3-4 errors present	0-2 errors present
mechanics, and	present
formatting
requirements
Weight: 8%

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