Gower Handbook of People in Project Management

After working for a UK division of Hewlett-Packard, Lindsay Scott established PM recruitment specialists Arras People in 2002. She is a careers column expert for PMI, contributes regularly to journals and broadsheets and is a frequent speaker. She is top project management social influencer in the social media and is a keen promoter of project and programme management offices. She markets the APM’s PMO specific interest group. Dennis Lock is a prolific and successful management writer whose career has included management positions in defence, heavy engineering and mining. He has also conducted consultancy assignments in the UK and overseas. More recently Dennis was an external lecturer in project management for the masters degree programmes of two English universities.

1: Management and Organisation; 1: People and Project Management; 2: Successes and Failures of People in Projects; 3: Project Life Cycles; 4: Project Sponsors; 5: Corporate Managers' Support for the Project Manager; 6: Project Management in the Private Sector; 7: People in Public Sector Projects; 8: Project Management in the Third Sector; 9: Introduction to Project Organisation Structures; 10: Managing in Matrix and More Complex Organisations; 11: International Projects; 12: Managing People in Virtual Project Organisations; 13: The Creative Organisation; 2: People in and Around the Project Environment; 14: Project Stakeholders; 15: People in Senior Project Roles; 16: People in Supporting Roles; 17: The Project Office Environment; 18: The Construction Working Environment; 19: The Workplace of the Future; 3: Improving Project Teams and Their People; 20: Identifying and Building Key Relationships; 21: Creating and Changing a Project Team; 22: Building Relationships through Influencing; 23: Managing Conflict in Projects; 24: Cross-cultural Relationships; 25: Project Communications; 26: Behavioural Traits; 27: Ethics in Project Management; 28: Leadership; 29: Conducting One's Self in Project Management; 30: Managing Daily Routines: A Day in the Life of a Project Manager; 31: Management Theorists of the Twentieth Century; 32: Team Development; 33: Motivating People in Projects; 34: Conduct of Meetings; 4: Developing the Individual; 35: Learning and Training: Part 1; 36: Learning and Training: Part 2; 37: Self-development; 38: Developing Competency; 39: Developing Project Management Capability; 40: Coaching and Mentoring; 5: Project Staffing and HRM Issues; 41: Scheduling People for a Single Project; 42: Resource Planning for People in a Projects Company; 43: Recruitment; 44: Legal Issues; 45: Pay and Rewards for Project Management Work; 46: Performance Appraisals; 47: Employment Termination: Letting People Go; 48: Advice for Project Managers on the Employment of Supplementary (Temporary) Workers; 6: More Specialised Topics; 49: Managing the People Side of Change; 50: Neuro Linguistic Programming; 51: Positive Psychology; 52: Industrial Psychology; 53: Emotional Intelligence in Project Management; 54: Managing Social Communications; 55: Empathy in Project Management; 56: Creativity; 57: The Hero Project Managers; 58: Human Traits and Behaviours in Project Management; 59: Career Paths in Project Management; 60: Project Management Certification: Taking Charge Locally; 61: Stress and Project Management: Maintaining High Performance; 62: Teams and Spirituality in Project Management 1; 63: Education and Qualifications in Project Management