Course: Manage Projects and Ensure a Safe Workplace

Week 1: Orientation
Week 2: Define Project (Element 1 BSBPMG510A)

Garbage in equals garbage out. If you do not start a project with the correct goal(s), it is not likely you will accomplish the goal(s).

Your project, to manage the relocation of your office, provides a great opportunity to create an innovative work environment that enables flexible work practices (GOAL 1), stimulates creativity (GOAL 2), and provides a safe and healthy workplace (GOAL 3).

Goal 1: Identify Flexible Work Practices For The Agency’s New Premises.

“Where we work affects the way we work”. TW, 2009

The first goal in our project is to identify “the way we will work in our new premises”. The relocation of the Agency is an opportunity to introduce flexible work practices. The implementation of these new practices will impact on the design of the office, “where we work”. For example introducing job sharing will require the use of ‘hot desks’ i.e. desks shared between employees working different shifts.

For this project it is necessary to become familiar with current developments and trends in flexible work practices (the way we work) and involve ‘the team’ and management in identifying the new work practices that they wish to adopt.

Go to the following articles and familiarise yourself with flexible work practices and their implementation issues.

Go to this week's forum and and answer its question.

Go to this week's portfolio activity.