Coursework 2 Summative Individual Report on Stakeholders

Assignment Guidance

For this summative assignment, you are required to prepare an individual report. You are asked to select a real-life project. There are many real-life projects, like the Belo Monte Dam case we studied in our workshops. You can select a project that was completed or that is still ongoing in the UK or any other country.

• Students should select an engineering or construction project. The project may be based in the United Kingdom or another country.

You are the project manager for the project you selected. You need to produce a
Report with your key stakeholder engagement approach for the project. The audience for your report is the project sponsors. The sponsors are reasonably familiar with the project. However, your audience deals with several projects and policy issues and is very busy. You can structure the report as you think best, but it needs to be in a professional format. It needs to provide a brief summary of the case with relevant information for your stakeholder engagement plan.

Your report should include:

Stakeholder engagement plan. When, how (virtually or face to face or through what), why, and with what frequency? Use tables, figures,

The main table for stakeholders’ engagement plan will be a good idea and include exceptions and dynamic throughout. Ideally like

Think about:

• Stakeholder interests and levels of influence.
• Opposing and supporting stakeholders.
• The communication plan, including different and potentially evolving stakeholder needs and mechanisms for stakeholders to provide feedback
  and receive responses. 
• Approach for monitoring the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement and responding to stakeholder feedback.

Negotiation and conflict resolution strategies for opposing stakeholders.

Think about:

• Negotiation of a possible agreement that also considers environment, social and economic values.
• Effective ways for proactive identification of conflict, investigation of its causes, and resolution of it. Consider different ways to identify conflict, different indicators that may support this identification, and techniques you can use to investigate the causes of conflict and resolve the conflict.
• Evaluation of conflict resolution measures, and strategies for seeking assistance from others. Consider different sources of support and indicators that may support the evaluation of conflict resolution measures.
• Constructive and Destructive stakeholder conflict and how to maintain them. What process will you take to prevent destructive and enable constructive

3Inclusion, ethics, professional and corporate social values in stakeholder engagement.

Think about:

• Ways to recognise individual, team and organisational bias in relating to stakeholders, and enabling factors that reflect the value of difference.
  Consider ways of minimising bias, ensuring fair treatment and capitalising on enabling factors.
• Identifying the value gained from the difference in engaging with each stakeholder category and ways of creating and sustaining a positive, inclusive environment in stakeholder engagement. Consider ways of maximising opportunities presented by diversity and inclusion.
• The appropriate ethical approach that can be used and ethical dilemmas that are likely to be encountered and how they can be resolved. 
• Dilemmas that are likely to be encountered in adhering to professional and corporate social values and how they can be resolved.

You will be expected to justify your conclusions concerning recognised sources of expertise and analysis in the field of project management, such as textbooks and journal articles. You can use tables or figures in your report. Each figure or table counts as 300 words. You need to ensure each figure or table is labelled.

Assessment Criteria and Process

The report will be marked according to the marking breakdown shown below. The detailed marking rubric can be found in Appendix 1. 

Learning outcomes being assessed

By completing this assessment, you will be demonstrating achievement of the following learning outcomes:

• MLO2: Critically evaluate the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement approaches, taking into account the complexities of the project setting and develop strategies for improvement.
• MLO3: Critically evaluate and resolve the differences between individuals and interest groups, considering the strategies for negotiation and conflict management.
• MLO4: Critically evaluate ways to build and maintain an inclusive environment that embraces a diverse culture.
• MLO5: Apply professional ethics and corporate social values to situations and choices in projects.