Resource management study guide questions
Task 1 Resource Management study
guide questions.
1.
What is Resource Management?
It´s the efficient and
effective operation of the resources of any type in a business for it´s ideal
use.
2.
Mention what is the importance
of Resource Management in business.
Resource management works
in the interest of the business profitability and sustainability.
ü reducing its costs
ü looks for a suitable resource utilization
ü Anticipates the resource demand so they can design a plan to deal
with the skill gaps
ü Facilitates the resources in a matrix organization
ü Keep track on their leaders’ performances so they can help to
improve them
3.
What are the Concepts and
Components of Resource Management?
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Resource scheduling: allocates
resources to different project tasks
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Resource utilization: consider
the time employees takes completing tasks based on their availability
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Resource forecasting: helps to
estimate the resource utilization that may eventually appear on the bench
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Resource and capacity planning:
analyses in advance the gap between capacity and demand in order to make sure of
no excess and of theirs filling to be done
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Business intelligence and
reports: for it to monitor the resource health index, reports need to be done
to improve the decision-making abilities
4.
What are the advantages of
resource management?
They help to reduce the
projects costs by improving the employee performance and excellent managing of
the resources
5.
What are the skills that every
resource manager should have?
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Communication skills: since the
resource manager function as mediator from the project manager its vital for
them to communicate the best as possible
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Conflict resolution: while
managing the resources for multiple project managers may conduct to
discrepancies, the resource manager have to keep the track to everyone.
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Domain knowledge: they have to
domain the field of resources
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Proactive planning: they have
to make the right decisions to complete the tasks in time
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Negotiation skills: Manager
need to be persuasive to get the job done
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Risk management: always have a
plan b for unexpected situations
I really how you define resources management, it's clear and concise. And also the way you summarize the information, you did a great job!
ReplyDeleteHi. I agree with your answers and i think another advantages of resource managing is that you can measure the company's health.
ReplyDeleteHello! You really summarized the information pretty well. I think that you found the main purpose of resource management when you explained it as the efficient and effective operation of the resources for its ideal use.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to skills that every resource manager, in your personal opinion, what do you consider the most skill that a resource manager should have?
Hi! your answers are very understandable and I agree with them.
ReplyDeleteHi! I think that resource management has also another advantage which is that you can maximize the profit by making more out of less
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