Ivana Case

“Project managers are change agents: they make project

goals their own and use their skills and expertise to inspire

a sense of shared purpose within the project team. They

enjoy the organized adrenaline of new challenges and the

responsibility of driving business results,” (Pmi.org, 2017)

This question was certainly a difficult one to answer. Even though Ivana is the proprietor of the organization obviously she has overlooked the fact that her workers are the ones who help make her company. However, this project can either make or break her company during this project. It is my opinion that Ivana can be described and seen as a tyrant and what I mean by this is that she leads her company through fear and intimidation. Some company cultures allow this type of frightening behavior. Even though some people may need threats and intimidation to focus on what they need to do. I have never met any. This team from the onset is miserable and results are seemingly

to be inadequate.
Moreover, considering Ivana’s management style, the team should just focus on the Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats Analysis (SWOT) and get rid of things that are not related to the project for the project proceed.

Ivana wants the group of employees to spend as much time as they can on the project, she will has a tendency to grow angry and blame employees if she knows the employees try to do other things that are not connected to the task. Meanwhile, her life is not being placed on hold she is going to dinner with friends and having a two-week vacation, while directing her employees to give up everything to complete the project.

It is my belief that the project member (Patrick), who seems to have taken on the role of the team leader should interact with Ivana throughout the project by focusing on the project and doing what Ivana ask them to perform. Also, he should communicate to Ivana about the progress of the project and the problems they are

facing.
Lastly, Patrick being the oldest working employee for ICS, he needs to approach Ivana and discuss her management style to help in improving the workplace morale. Unfortunately, I do not fell she will listen. She seems to be the type of person who believes everything should be done her way and as she says. The business can continue to be successful with the way she is behaving toward her employees. Eventually her employees will grow tired of her disposition and quit. Therefore, in my opinion the best way to approach this would be to have one person sit down with Ivana and discuss the employee’s issues. The meeting should be scheduled when there are no big projects g and the person in the meeting should try to phrase the complaints where they do not come off sounding as if they are attacking her. I also think that they should suggest possible solutions to the issues as well. I would hope that Ivana could see her mistakes and take the meeting to heart to better her company and the morale of her company.