Ts/275 Project Management Plan
Communications Management Plan
Team One
Capella University
Project Management Fundamentals
TS5331
Professor Johnson
December 01, 2013
The impact of Organizational Influences, Cultures, and Styles on a Communication Plan
Many corporations stress on technical skills and experience when it comes to their resources and they overlook the real organizational influences like cultures, and communication. Organizational culture is a set of shared assumption, values, and behaviors that characterizes the functioning of an organization. Within an organization there could be several different cultures. For example, IT department may have a different culture than finance and so on. However the combination of these different cultures is so powerful that it can create issues for any organization and can affect organizations ability to manage projects. In most projects there are many stakeholders with different levels …show more content…
“Different people respond positively to different levels or types of communications”. (Schwalbe, K., 2014). What level of information each stakeholder needs and how often they need the information. Most communications are done face to face due to the soft skills needed to communicate properly with everyone and get a feel for what they are feeling. This is done in order to read other people’s reactions when bringing up different ideas. Doing most communication over a conference call or other online communications puts a barrier between people. Major meetings such as progress and status reports are to be done with various project managers in order to inform stakeholders of progress and changes that might need to be made. The reason for only having managers is so that there are not too many opinions during these meetings and not over complicating them with overly tech conversations that are meant to be high level
Team One
Capella University
Project Management Fundamentals
TS5331
Professor Johnson
December 01, 2013
The impact of Organizational Influences, Cultures, and Styles on a Communication Plan
Many corporations stress on technical skills and experience when it comes to their resources and they overlook the real organizational influences like cultures, and communication. Organizational culture is a set of shared assumption, values, and behaviors that characterizes the functioning of an organization. Within an organization there could be several different cultures. For example, IT department may have a different culture than finance and so on. However the combination of these different cultures is so powerful that it can create issues for any organization and can affect organizations ability to manage projects. In most projects there are many stakeholders with different levels …show more content…
“Different people respond positively to different levels or types of communications”. (Schwalbe, K., 2014). What level of information each stakeholder needs and how often they need the information. Most communications are done face to face due to the soft skills needed to communicate properly with everyone and get a feel for what they are feeling. This is done in order to read other people’s reactions when bringing up different ideas. Doing most communication over a conference call or other online communications puts a barrier between people. Major meetings such as progress and status reports are to be done with various project managers in order to inform stakeholders of progress and changes that might need to be made. The reason for only having managers is so that there are not too many opinions during these meetings and not over complicating them with overly tech conversations that are meant to be high level