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‘Is Handling Conflict Resolution and Negotiation Crucial in Project Management?’

Today’s organizations have become less hierarchical, less dependent on management authority with plastic boundaries. As a result, project management genetics have evolved too, creating conflicts with a different facet. Conflicts in project management have become inevitable, often beneficial and needs to be managed. Projects involve people with different skills, cultural values, and methods of executing tasks. The involvement of multiple stakeholders in a project causes budgetary constraints, project stresses etc. Even the appearance of a conflict negatively impacts the organization, from management to workers. As a result, the key metrics of project success, budget, time, standards and customer approval suffers, resulting in time and cost overruns.  Successful organizations try to develop project managers to become sound decisions makers at the time of conflict, which in turn defines the type of leader that you are.  

What You'll Learn

The learning objectives of Professor Mapa's lesson are:

• Typical types of conflicts in project management
• Conflict resolution strategies
• Why negotiations are crucial in a project

About Our Speaker

Lash Mapa is a Professor in Industrial Engineering Technology at Purdue University Northwest (PNW). His undergraduate and graduate degrees are in Chemical Engineering. He has several years’ experience as a Chemical Engineer, Process and Project manager with European and U.S. manufacturing organizations.  Currently, he is mainly associated with the MS Technology program at PNW and has managed over thirty projects including lean six sigma projects with manufacturing, service industry and educational institutions. He also teaches undergraduate courses in Operations management, graduate level Advanced Project Management and Enterprise Quality Management and Quality Systems. He is an ASQ Certified Black Belt and a Certified Quality Engineer.

Tickets

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