Assessment 1 Project proposal Difference that having an engineering manager makes on organizational productivity over having a manager (general) Table of Content 1. Project Context 2 1.1Identification and exploration of future profession 2 1.2 Review of the understanding for becoming a professional 2 2. Project Proposal 4 2.1 Background 4 2.2 Definition of issue………………………………………………………………..........4 2.3 Aims and Objectives 5 2.4 Justification of the project………………………………………………………………5 2.5 Literature Review 5 2.6 Hypothesis 6 2.7 Methodology 6 2.8 Data Analysis 7 2.9 Organization of the project……………………………………………………………..7 3. Gantt Chart 8 References 9 Logbook Evidence…………………………………………………………………………………11 Topic Name:Difference that having an engineering manager makes on organizational productivity over having a manager (general). 2.1 Background: In this era of modernization, organizations are continuously concentrating on advancement of their management system. This factor has influenced the organization to introduce engineering management into their management system. “Engineering Management is the discipline that addresses making and implementing decisions for strategic and operational leadership in current and emerging technologies and their impact on interrelated systems”(IEEE, 2010). Engineering management covers topics such as management of engineering projects, management of technical functions or operations, direct supervision of engineers, and management of scientific methods (Collins, Berivudes, Youngblood and Pazos, 2004). Nowadays, a large number of prominent companies are recruiting engineering mangers to obtain competitive edge in the marketplace (Katz, 2016). 2.2 Definition of issue/ problem: It is evident that modern organizations are now facing much more challenges regarding the economic and legal issues as compared to traditional organizations (Hoda and Murugeasan, 2016). Today, organizations are forced to introduce newtechnologies and skilled workers. To handle these technological and human resources, organizations are required to have engineering managers. As described byHeagney, (2016) a general manager who do not know the technologies and systems deeply cannot be able to make effective plans to achieve organizational goals. Even general managers may form faulty plans in this case. In such a context, adopting new management concept of engineering management can be useful for the organization to obtain competitive advantage. 2.3 Aim and objectives/ Research questions: The objective of this precise project work is to explore the concept of engineering management andidentify the significance of engineering managers in the organization. The research will be directed to explore the following particularly stated research questions. • What are the factors that led the companies to introduce engineering management in their management level? • How engineering managers are making some difference in organizational performance and productivity as compared to general managers? 2.4 Justification of the Project: It is evident that new age companies facing more threats as compared to traditional organizations. The gap of between technological requirements and traditional management can only be mitigated by the engineering managers. According to Kerzner,(2013) the technical skills of managers are significant for organization to increase their productivity and performance. Today, a large number of organizations that are recruiting engineering managers in their management setup are getting positive result by doing so. Therefore, it is crucial to know that what are the factors those triggered organizations to introduce engineering management.This project’ result can also be helpful for the companies to explore the divisionswhere engineering managers are required. 2.5 Literature review: It has been analyzed that as general managers also face various issues and challenges during the technical project development (Liebowitz, 2011). These challenges or risks needs to be managed and resolved for successful completion of the technical projects. Problems due to improper technical knowledge in risk management: The Manager has the responsibility to arrange all the technical stuffs to manage the project objectives. In contrary with this fact, now a day generalmanagers are not capable of using any technical concepts properly in order to mitigate the risks involved within projects and operations (Havang, 2013). Challenges due to utilization wrong project management tools: There are various functional tools and software utilized within project for communicating effectively with the project stakeholders (Westbrook, 2012). Additionally, these functional measures include software installation and their effective operations. Therefore, the general managers need to be expertise in operating these measures which will result into the successful completion of project as well as it helps in making higher productivity (Too & Weaver, 2014). In spite of these specifications, most of the general managers are not capable of managing these different activities within project (Seas, Clough, Rounds and Segner, 2015). Therefore, engineering managers are required to utilize these tools. Challenges due to improper management of resources: There are various resources involved within any project. If general manager don’t manage these properly there will loss of resources and it will effectively harm the project success and company productivity (Argyris and Schon, 2010). Gaps in literature: Though these literatures are elaborating various functional measures about engineering profession and its impactful areas within organizations for improving its productivity, there are various issues faced by engineering managers while doing these. These issues or problems are not highlighted within these literatures 2.6 Hypothesis: H (1): Null Hypothesis: Engineering managers can improve the productivity of the organization as compared to general managers. H (2): Alternate Hypothesis: Engineering managers cannot improve the productivity of organization as compared to general managers, 2.7 Methodology: The concerned methodology for this project is divided into two segments research approach and research design. Therefore, here positivism approach and qualitative- quantitative methodology is being used in order to test longitudinal data. These are helpful in estimating the collected samples with respect functional objectives of this project. 2.8 Data Analysis: Data Collection: Data collection is one of the most important and effective step involved within any research process. Secondary source of data will be the information provided by government departments and organizational records. To collect this data, I will also use research articles and academic journals such as Engineering Management Journal. Apart from this, a survey will be conducted to collect primary data. Data Analysis Techniques There are mainly two types of data analysis techniques used for analyzing the data. These are qualitative and quantitative data analysis techniques. As here two types of data collection tools are being used within this project. Therefore, both the quantitative and qualitative tools will be used within for this project context. Additionally, the quantitative data collection tool helps the researcher in analyzing the project development with respect to immediate and direct responses from different participants in surveys. 2.9 Organization of the Project: The project will be structured in the subsequent way: Chapter 1: Project proposal as the framework will be discussed in this chapter. Chapter 2: It will discuss literature review. Chapter 3: This chapter will discuss the methodology used in this project. Chapter 4: Collected data and findings will be discussed in this chapter. Chapter 5:It will summarize the findings. Also, project organizer will provide some recommendations (in necessary).   3 Gantt chart: Figure 1: Gantt chart (Source: Created by Author)   References: Argyris, C., &Schön, D. A. (2010). Organizational learning: A theory of action perspective. Reis, (77/78), 345-348. Burke, R. (2013). 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