Research Paper on:
PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CASE STUDY

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more complex activities than they have every before. Any project manager, before he/she even begins a task, is responsible for controlling  six resources, and these are money, manpower, equipment, facilities, materials and information/technology (Kerzner, 2003). But Kerzner also points out that the project manager isnt necessarily in direct control of any  of these, but rather, is responsible for controlling the people who do (Kerzner, 2003). Therefore, a successful project manager tries to, first of all, establish a strong daily working relationship  between him/herself and line managers who directly assign resources to projects; and must oversee the "ability of functional employees to report vertically to line managers at the same time they  report horizontally to one or more project managers" (Kerzner, 2003, 7). Its in this regard, Kerzner notes, that project management systems come  in so handy. Also, he notes, the typical classical organization, in which the work flow flows down from top to bottom, simply isnt effective these days. Rather, Kerzner tends to  support the so-called "matrix organizational form," one in which employees are in more of a horizontal, rather than a vertical situation, in which employees might have one or more superiors  to report to (Kerzner, 2003). He also points out (and again, this is important for our upcoming case study), that the typical  project manager in this day and age is more of a generalist than a specialist in one area (in which project managers were, in the past). Basically, the project manager  must be part psychologist, part motivator, part marketer, part accountant, part resource allocator, and so on, if there is to be any success of a particular project. Again, however, this