The effectiveness of projects is partly concerned with how people fit in and contribute to the success of the project. This means there may be synergies in group decision making compared to individual decision making. To assist you in your research assignment you can draw on the workshop exercises done in each lecture. You can collaborate in discussing your research with your study team but the assignment is an individual submission in report format using the VU Harvard AGPS style.
Assignment task: To research and report on the effectiveness of group and individual decision making in project management. This is to be done by:
· Reading and reviewing the latest literature but not limiting yourself to a single source of information (i.e. only books, journals or www)
· Identify cases which illustrate the success and failures of different decision making strategies.
· Discuss why these succeeded and/or failed.
· Present this as a formal business report on "How to Improve the People Contribution to Project Management".
This assignment is an individual assignment submission which can be used as support material for the Group Research Project presentations.