INFS5001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Project Manager, Theory X And Theory Y, Theory Z

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Business Information Systems
• Course: INFS5001
• Professor: Dr Peter

Document Summary

Task oriented focus on what a team need to do to get the job done facilitate and coordinate decision making tasks includes: initiating; coordinating; summarising; evaluating; information seeking & information giving. Relationship oriented focus on the social needs to the team deal with team tasks, sentiments and viewpoints includes: facilitating; encouraging; harmonising. Self oriented focus only on the needs of individual team members, sometimes at the cost of the team includes: dominating; recognition seeking; withdrawal; blocking. Project managers function as mini-ceos a(cid:374)d (cid:373)a(cid:374)age (cid:271)oth (cid:862)hard(cid:863) te(cid:272)h(cid:374)i(cid:272)al details a(cid:374)d (cid:862)soft(cid:863) people issues. Project managers: acquire project resources motivate and build teams have a vision and fight fires communicate. M(cid:272)gregor"s theory x a(cid:374)d y: (cid:449)orker"s fit i(cid:374)to o(cid:374)e of t(cid:449)o groups: theory x people need to be watched every minute. People are incapable, avoid responsibility and avoid work whenever possible theory y people are willing to work without supervision, and want to achieve.