Communicating Work Culture Is Key

Description

Project Managers have been brought in to manage a new prisoner rehabilitation project to work alongside the project team which includes the social worker, prison liaison officer, and psychologist. Due to their work culture identity, the Project Managers are sticklers for the metrics of maintaining scheduling and budget goals. The project team on the other hand has a work culture focused on results. The project team, in a hope to improve their support system for their prisoners, invests in additional resources without informing the Project Managers which leads to the project going over budget for their current quarter. Conflict arises when the Project Managers confront their team about the budget overage. During the conflict both the Managers and team get heated before they take a step back and try to think about each other's respective goals. They conclude that the issues stemmed from the lack of communication between the team and management, and thus they agree to implement a new system for communication to ensure that all new project activities and costs are discussed with the Project Managers to be properly implemented within budget and time constraints.