CERTIFICATION

I hereby declare that this internship report is written by NDUMBONG SAMA

FLORA FORTUNE a student of the Higher Institute of Management Studies
(HIMS) Molyko-Buea with registration number HIMS/10/20/0256 from the
department of Project Management in partial fulfilment for the award of a Higher
National Diploma (HND). It is a write up on my experience gained during my
internship. All borrowed ideas have been fully acknowledge by means of
reference.

Report Supervisor: Head of department:

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Date ------------------------- Date -------------------------------

Ms Nong Mbong k Theodora Mr. Ekonje J Smith

This report is accepted for meeting technical and professional requirement for the
Higher National Diploma examination (HND)

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 (Academic office)
Date ------------------------------------

DEDICATION
To my mother Mrs. Doh Victorine

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
All that I know and what I have actually done is a sum total of what I have learned
from all who have taught me, both directly and indirectly. I am for ever indebted to
the countless outstanding men and women who by their commitment and
dedication in one way or the other contributed tremendously to making this work a
reality.

I deeply thank my academic supervisor Ms. Nong Mbong k Theodora for her
patience and love she has shown me throughout. May the lord richly bless her.

Also big thanks to my field supervisor Mr. Eleones ossang for his inspirational
coaching throughout my internship program. Not forgetting Mr. Soua thierry and
the staff of G&J co.ltd, for their support and encouragement throughout my
internship.

My appreciation and gratitude also goes to my parents for their unspeakable and
uncompromising support spiritually and physically I indeed appreciate. To my
brothers and sisters, Nahbit Nathalie, and michelle who were always there to say
sister ride on, indeed you were source of inspiration to me. And also to all I have
not mentioned, appreciate you all. Above all to God Almighty, for the gift of life
and knowledge and who crowned it all with strength and sound health through this
work.

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 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This report relate to the one-month internship which intern carried out in George
and Jerry co.ltd located at chief street Bomaka Buea South West Region of
Cameroon. The organization has as its objective to be the top leading construction
company in Cameroon, Africa and the World at large. This training started on the
7th of June to 7th of July 2021 and which intern had as her focus area to know the
role of stake holders and stakeholder’s management in an organization. The main
objective of the internship training was to blend theory and practice. The following
are some activities which were carried out during this period of internship. General
orientation of G & J co.ltd, creativity and innovation, SWOT analysis of the
organization, basic project writing techniques, professional field work practice,
presentation and communication as a marketing activity in a new project. Intern
based her focus on project conception. The organization also posses strength such
as, offer of various services to customers, the offer of practical work in business
rather than theory, it is a legal entity and connections. The main weakness of the
organization was limited personnel to provide the services, small space to
accumulate customers, lack of business equipment to facilitate practical work.
Some recommendations made for the company is to increase its total
accommodation space, to create branches to capture more customers, they should
carry out more advertising programs to capture more customers.

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 TABLE OF COTENTS

CERTIFICATION .............................................................................................. i
DEDICATION ................................................................................................... ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................ iii
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................... iv
TABLE OF COTENTS ..................................................................................... v
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the study ............................................................................................................. 1
1.2 Aims and objectives of the internship ......................................................................................... 3
1.3: Operational definitions of Terms ............................................................................................... 4
1.3.2 Abbreviations .......................................................................................................................... 6

CHAPTER TWO
PRESENTATION OF THE ORGANIZATION
2.1 Historical Background of the Organization ................................................................................. 7
2.2 Aims and Objectives of the Organisation .................................................................................... 8
 Aims of the Organisation.......................................................................................................... 8
 Objectives of the Organisation.................................................................................................. 8
2.3 Organisational Structure (functions) ........................................................................................... 9
2.4: Production of organization (good/service) ............................................................................... 13

CHAPTER THREE
ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE INTERN
3.1 Activities carried out by student and student impression ........................................................... 15
3.2 Focus Area: Stakeholder’s Management ................................................................................... 19
3.3: Comparison between Theory and Practice ............................................................................... 23

CHAPTER FOUR
EVALUATION OF THE INTERNSHIP
4.1Strengths and Weaknesses of the Organisation .......................................................................... 25
4.2 Evaluation of internship ........................................................................................................... 27

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 CHAPTER FIVE
RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
5.1 Recommendations .................................................................................................................... 29
5.2 CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................ 29

REFERENCES.....................................................................................................
APPENDIX ....................................................................................................... 31
Geographical Location ................................................................................................................... 32

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 CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background to the study

Internship is an opportunity to integrate career related experience in to an
undergraduate education by practical in planned and supervised work. Internship
can also be described as a period of apprenticeship, where students work off
campus under the supervision of a factory, hospital business or government
agency. During this period, students put in practice to theory in what they have
learned in class and to gain experience to those looking forward to gain the
relevant knowledge and skills required to enter in to a career. Internship is
relatively short term in nature and primarily focuses on giving someone practical
knowledge on the job training, and taking the theory learnt in the classroom and
applying to real world. Interns normally have their supervisors, who assigns
specific tasks to them and the end evaluate their overall performance. Internship
enhances professionalism it is based on practical orientation and real world
experience. Unlike the traditional vocation training program, internships are not
only designed to expose students to gain knowledge just for academic work, but
also to gain experience in to the job market, as well as making student see the
relevance of academic skills. Internship is not jobs but learning experience.
Students usually work in different departments, learning the range of jobs and
careers within the company.

The intern formulated several learning goals which were;

 To know how conception is being paned in project management

 To know how feasibility studies is being carried out.

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  To know how projects are being planned and executed
 To know various construction projects and their stakeholders
 To know how a project is being executed and how the project performance is
being checked.
 To know how they deal with risk that occur during project execution.
 How communication with various stakeholders involved in a project is being
done. The internship was based mainly in the field of Project Management as
the intern was willing to learn the various aspects above in a construction firm
which was George & Jerry Co. LTD.

Importance of Internship

 It provides real life experience and exposure: an internship enables the intern to
gain first hand exposure in working in real world.’ It also allows students to
harness its skills, knowledge and theoretical practices. The great thing about
internship is that it teaches young professionals about a specific industry or
company they are interested in.
 Internship is an opportunity to integrate career related experience into graduate
and undergraduate education by participating in a planned and supervised work
and also merge the theoretical practical knowledge which is very important to
the present and future lives of students. Not only is internship beneficial for the
student, but also educational institutions and the organization substantially
benefit from such a program.
 Internship enhances professionalism as it is fully based on practical orientation
and real world experiences which is a great exposure to the professional field.
Such has been my experience at G & J co.ltd during my period of internship.

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 Getting connected and developing your professional network: networking is an
exchange of information between people with the ultimate goal of establishing
acquaintance and relationship to advance professional career. Internship allows
you to establish deeper relationship than normally talking to strangers.
 An internship gives the intern an opportunity to learn about his or herself:
knowing oneself is the beginning of wisdom. The experiences we go through
are that which shape us. The intern will not only experience personal
development but also greater understanding of you to know yourself is to know
your goal and how to achieve them.
 During internship the intern has the opportunity to excel and possibly pick a job
with the company.

1.2 Aims and objectives of the internship

 To establish a correlation between theory in the classroom and what is applied
in the field.
 To develop the interns curriculum vitae, and also develop professional
qualification in career work related training and reference that would enhance
employability after the interns studies.
 To gather firsthand experience in modern business practices and skills.
 To evaluate, accessed and critically examine some major category of projects
in Cameroon.

 Objectives
 To know the role played by stakeholders and stakeholder management in an
organization.
 To find out the main activities of a project and human resource managers of
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 any organization.

 To know how project managers build up a successful team for a particular

task.
 To know how a project manager will manage its resources successfully.
 To know how human Resource managers attend to workers in the office and
at site.

1.3: Operational definitions of Terms

 Conception
Project conception is the first step in the process of specifying the actual
scope of a project.
 Project Management

It is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within
the given constraints.

 Project
A project is a temporal endeavor which is unique in nature, has a start and end
time, aimed at creating a new product in other to achieve organizational
objectives.
 Project performance
This is defined by the criteria of time, budget and deliverables. It is the
overall quality of a project in terms of its impact, value to beneficiaries,
implementation effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability.

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 Risk
It is the possibility of occurrence of any unfavorable event that has the
potential to minimize gains and maximize loss of a business
 Project portfolio
It is a term that refers to an organization’s group of Projects and the process
in which they are selected and managed
 Project stakeholders
Project stakeholders are individuals, groups or organizations that can affect
a project or may be affected by a project.
 Sponsor
A sponsor is an individual, entity or organization that gives funding for the
sponsoring of a project.
 Competitors
These are organizations/establishments that produce similar or identical
products

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1.3.2 Abbreviations
G & J……………………………………………George and Jerry

LTD…………………………………………………....Limited

CNPS…………………………………National Security Funds

CO……………………………………………………..Company

P.M.......................................................................Project Manager

H.R……..............................................................Human Resource

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 CHAPTER TWO

PRESENTATION OF THE ORGANIZATION

2.1 Historical Background of the Organization

George and Jerry Construction Company limited hereinafter called G&J Co. Ltd
was created in February 2004 by TABOT GEORGE EKO with its registered head
office in Buea, South West Region of Cameroon. G&J Co. Ltd are involved in
building projects, road constructions and road maintenance, supply of aggregates
(sand and gravel), civil engineering works and related activities of all sorts such
rehabilitation of buildings, bridges, roads throughout the world. G&J Co. Ltd are a
team that is extremely knowledgeable, with about 20years experience in the
construction industry and building trends. They are passionate about bringing
projects to life, acquiring and maintaining good business relationships with their
partners and clients. George and Jerry construction company Ltd strive to provide
the highest quality for professional services in the construction and
telecommunication sector. Their vision is to become a leading construction
company in Africa. This will be pursed through their commitment to core values
(trust, honesty, perseverance, enthusiasm) building practices and expertise.
Building honest and professionalism during the years have made their staff to
become more effective. Their staffs are their most valuable assets. They are a
family connected with well-trained personnel who are devoted in contributing their
expertise and resources for a better global society. The company has gained
Government trust and an impeccable reputation with companies like SOGEA
SATOM, RAZEL CAMEROUN. George and Jerry Co. traces its root back to 2004
in Buea and since then have never looked back. With thousands of successful
projects under their care, like the Buea Regional hospital construction project, G&J

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Co. can proudly say that they are one of the most trusted construction companies in
Cameroon performing both domestic and international construction work.

2.2 Aims and Objectives of the Organisation

 Aims of the Organisation

 George and Jerry aim at becoming the leading construction company in
Africa.
 George and Jerry Construction Co. LTD, aim at providing the highest quality
for professional services in the construction and telecommunication sector.

 Objectives of the Organisation

 To have the best employees in managing project

 The objective of G &J is to attain the right structure for its customers and earn
their trust.
 To become the top most recognized Construction Company to handle
government projects in Cameroon.

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2.3 Organisational Structure (functions)
Gotten from G&J co.ltd

G&J co.ltd management structure, 2021

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Functions or Duties of the Various Department of the Organization

 General Director

He is the CEO of the company and he inspects the management activities of

all the other departments and ensures that all offices operate according to the
organizational policies

 Deputy General Director

He is responsible for the daily running of the company activities. He gives
his viewpoint on how the project should be planned and executed.
 Human Resource Manager
He is in charge of formulating all personnel issues within the company. He
prepares the pay slip of all workers, grant permission and leave for workers,
firing and hiring new workers, and resolve issues between workers.
 Technical Manager
He makes key decisions for technical issue related to the company after
considering everything from cost to quality of hardware or software. He
resolves issues that arise within the team.
 Finance Department
This department is in charge of all financial transactions of the company. It
also keeps records of all financial transactions and prepares the accounts for
the company. It is responsible of payment of salaried to workers.

 Information Technology Department

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 This service ensures the smooth functioning of all computer related tools and
processes in the institution. The service is also responsible of the company’s
website, software and hardware maintenance.
 Accounting Department
This department provides accounting services and manages the finance of
the company. This department records accounts, bill clients and customers,
track assets and expenditures, managing payroll and keep track of critical tax
documents.
 Logistics Department
This department is in charge of the movement of their aggregate to the right
project site in need of this aggregate or to clients who purchase the products
so it reaches safely to their customers. They are also in charge of inventory
management in the company
 Marketing Department
This department is in charge in the marketing of the organization services to the
public. They carry out online marketing of the organization through their face book
page and other platforms.
 Geotechnical service office
They study the geographical location of an area which a project is to be carried
out. This is to determine if the zone is free from natural hazards like floods and
earthquakes.
 Communication Department
They give information and updates on new issues to the various stakeholders in
the organization.

 Design office

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 The design office draws up building plans and present to the project manager to
confirm wherein the marketing department sells the designs to interested
persons.
 Storekeeper
The storekeeper is responsible for ensuring the maintenance of stocks,
operation of an accounting system, maintenance of inventory records,
preparation of material orders, receiving reviewing and storing of supplies
disbursed on material transfers
 Secretary
This service is responsible of preparing administrative documents, typing,
and meeting reports, arranging important documents in a proper manner and
picking up calls from outside the company, sending and receiving mails
within and outside the company.
 Drivers
They take care in the transportation of material to project site. They also
carry workers to new project sites.
 Security Guards
They ensure the safety of the company during the day and at night, the day guard
resolves quarrels incurred in the institution especially when some clients try to be
harsh on the staff.

 Cleaners
The cleaner keeps offices in the company clean, furniture, arranges the
place on daily bases and during meetings.

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2.4: Production of organization (good/service)
George and Jerry co.ltd provides the following services

 Triangular concrete V-shape ditch and trapezium U-shape ditch.

 Stone work.
 Construction of pedestrian track.
 None covered gutter of dimension 70 x 70 and 50 x 50.
 Small slabs with covering of size 70 and 50.
 Precast curbs P2, T2, T3, CC2, CC3 and border separation 50cm.
 Prefabricated water drainage on slopes.
 Installation of curbs P2, T2, T3, CC2, CC3 and border separation 50cm.
 Laying of concrete ring θ800 and θ1000.
 Construction of ring culvert head.
 Construction of box culvert.
 Prefabrication of θ800 and θ1000 concrete ring.
 Fabricated of cobblestone.
 Construction of fence: GBA and DBA.
 Sliding metallic gates.
 Stone work for bridges and walls.
 Painting of building and related activities.
 Installing of optic fibers.
 Public gathering; planting of grass.
 Installation of vertical and horizontal road signs.
 Construction of highway fence.
 General electrification.
 Construction of highway gutters.

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 Displacement and installation of telecommunication networks.

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 CHAPTER THREE

ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE INTERN

3.1 Activities carried out by student and student impression

During the internship training, the intern was trained to perform the following
activities at the George and Jerry co.ltd, general orientation of the organization of
the company. Basic project writings, professional fieldwork practice, SWOT
analysis of G&J co.ltd, presentation and communication, creativity and innovation
and social media management.

General Orientation of G&J co.ltd

During the very first day of internship, the interns were oriented by the Human
Resource Manager on two main aspects that is, a talk about George and Jerry co.ltd
and a talk about internship. The intern was told the purpose of George and Jerry
co.ltd which is enhancing infrastructural development in Cameroon. The core
value of G&J co.ltd was integrity, respect, growth, responsibility and nation
building.

On the 7th of June, the intern started the internship activities. The intern with the
help of the internship supervisor set up an internship activity table which was then
given as an activity there at the company to impute the activities into the microsoft
ware application which is seen on table 3.1 below.

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Table: 3.1

NAME Ms. Nong Mbong K Theodora

SCHOOL Higher Institute Of Management Studies

DEPARTMENT Project Management

SUPERVISOR Mr. Ekonje J Smith

Summary Program of activities for intern from the 06/08/2017 to 06/09/2021

ACTIVTY START END DATE DURATION

PRESENTATION OF DATE
ORGANIZATION

Visit to the Director’s 06/08/2021 08/08/2021 3 days

office and Assistant
Director
Accounting Department 09/08/2021 13/08/2021 3 days

Marketing 14/08/2021 15/08/2021 2 days

Law & Insurance 16/08/2021 16/08/2021 1 day

Economics & business 17/08/2021 17/08/2021 day

studies
Transport and Logistics 20/08/2021 20/08/2021 1 day

Project initiation 21/08/2021 22/08/2021 2 days

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Project planning 23/08/2021 24/08/2021 2 days

Project costing 27/08/2021 28/08/2021 2 days

H.R Management 29/08/2021 30/08/2021 2 days

Project Risk Management 31/07/2021 03/09/2021 2 days

Stakeholder Management 05/09/2021 06/09/2021 2days

Project Procurement
Management
07/09/2021 10/09/2021 2 days

Project Communication
Management
11/09/2021 12/09/2021 2 days

Knowledge Management 13/09/2021 14/09/2021 2 days

The above table shows intern activities and durations which were to be carried out
during her training in G&J co.ltd drawn up by the intern and her field supervisor

During my one month stay at George and Jerry co.ltd, Intern had the opportunity to
work in almost all the departments found at the organization, which on my report
activity was divided in to depart.

 Activities carried out at the Risk Department

Since the organization was dealing with field work, they were liable to risk, so
in the risk management department, medical checks were done on the health
and safety of employees in the organization. Intern was shown the various exits
to take in case of fire and where intern is supposed to stand when such occur so

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 as for a role call to be conducted to know if everyone has evacuated the
building.
 Activities carried out at the Human Resource Manager.
At the H.R office, the intern was able to learn a lot from this department since
the intern got the chance to be working with her internship supervisor who was
the H.R Manager of the company. At the Human Resource Department, intern
was shown on how materials are being managed in the company and as well
their employees and the various salary categories of workers. Intern was given
employees information to create tax payers account for each employee in the
company. The intern was shown how various employees’ issues were being
resolved by the Human Resource Manager and the procedures for out station
work for a worker needed at a construction site. Also, the intern was asked to
prepare job advert for the company and this helped intern to know the
procedure when a company has a job vacancy and what a job advert contains.

 Activities carried out at the Secretariat Office

In every big organization a secretary is needed to draft out schedules of high
management workers of an organization, type down minutes of every meeting
they hold, welcome customers who come in to the company and many more. At
the secretariat office, intern was thought how to photocopy and print documents
using the photocopier machine and how to print on the different sheet, A4 paper
and A3 paper. Intern was also taught how to register mails that enters and
leaves the company in two ledgers that is, one for incoming mails that enter the
company and the other for mails that leave the organization. Intern was taught
some basic computer graphic design.

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 Activities carried out at the Accounting Department
At the accounting department, intern was taught on how to enter company end
of year transactions using the sage accounting soft ware application, intern also
had much to enter given that the company had a lot of dealings and needed to
enter each transaction in the right format, using sage accounting soft ware.

3.2 Focus Area: Stakeholder’s Management

During this one-month training program, intern had in mind as her focus to know
the role of a stakeholders and the importance of stakeholder’s management in an
organization.

In every organization there must be stakeholder who has an interest in the

business. This interest can either be positive or a negative interest.

Stakeholder: A stakeholder is anybody or groups who are positively or negatively

impacted by a project, initiative, policy or organization. They could be internal or
external. As the student focus area during this one month program she intended
knowing what stakeholder management is and how it will affect an organization.
Stakeholders are employees, investors, shareholders of a project while the external
stakeholders are the government, suppliers, clients, hospitals, insurance company
etc. The stakeholder management process includes,

Stakeholder Management: stakeholder management includes the processes

required to identify the people, group, or organization that could impact or be
impacted by the project. To analyze stakeholder expectations and their impact of
the project and to develop appropriate management strategies for effectively
engaging stakeholders in project decision and executions.

 Stakeholder management processes.

 Identify stakeholder.
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 Plan stakeholder engagement.
 Manage stakeholder engagement.
 Monitor stakeholder.

Monitor stakeholder management

Identify Plan stakeholder Manage

stakeholder engagement stakeholder
engagement
Inputs Input
1) Project chatter 1)Project chatter 1)PM- plan
2)Business 2)PM- plan 2)Project
3)document 3)Agreement document
4)Project 4)Project
5)document document
6)Agreement

Tools & Tools &

Tools &
techniques techniques
techniques
1)Expert judgment 1)Expert )Expert judgment
2)Data gathering judgment 2)Data gathering
3)Data analysis 2)Data gathering 3)Data analysis
4)Data 3)Data analysis 4)Data
representation 4)Data representation
5)Meetings representation

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 Outputs output Output
1)Stakeholder 1)Stakeholder 1)Change request
register engagement plan 2)PM-plan
2)Change request updates
3)Project 3)PM-document
management updates
4)Plan update
5)Project
document update

Intern during her one month training was asked to identify the variouse
stakeholder involved in the institution she studies in (HIMS).

 Positive Stakeholders
Students: they are said to be positive stakeholders of the institution because
they add to the finances of the school by paying their fees
Teachers: the teachers impact the students with knowledge which they on
their part acquire good knowledge and keep the name of the school running
Taxi drivers: they help in caring both teachers and students to school which
they receive a pay for.
School cleaners: they keep the campus clean making the surrounding pleasant
and comfortable for students and there by receiving a salary for their services.
Parents: they are also part of the stakeholder in an institution because they
have an interest that is by sending their children to this institution to go acquire
knowledge.

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 Bookshop owners: they provide the school and students with text books
needed for studies and as well gain income from the sales of these books.

 Negative Stakeholders
Competitors (CUIB, HIMAT, and RIMZ): they play a negative role in that
they provide the same services which HIMS provides making it a threat to the
institution.
Government: they government impulse taxes to be paid by the institution thus
reducing their finances use in running the school.
Intern during this training was giving an assignment by her field supervisor to
show the various steps in stakeholder identification in a project

Stakeholder identification

This process is all about identifying who are the stakeholders in a project and
differentiating the internal and external stakeholders.

Analyse stakeholder engagement

This has to do with knowing their interest, influence and expectations of the
stakeholders from the project.

Plan stakeholder engagement

This process deals with making a plan on how these stakeholders needs,
expectations and needs will be achieve at the end of the project.

Manage stakeholder engagement

The managing process is to ensure that these needs, interest and expectation are
attained at the end of the project.

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Monitor stakeholder engagement

This is the last stage of stakeholder management and this is all about ensuring that
the processes are being done and monitored.

Stakeholder engagement can be effectively done through proper communication.

Communication management is a process of ensuring that information about a
project reaches all its stakeholders through the appropriate channels for
transferring information.
Communication management process includes;

 Identify who to communicate with

 Figure out who deserve which information in a project
 Determine the method of communication to be used for transferring the
information.

3.3: Comparison between Theory and Practice

3.3.1 Similarities

 In theory, it was taught that face to face survey is more flexible than any other
method of data collection. It was the same method used to carry out data
collection in projects.
 In class, it was taught that one of the ways to increase customer’s loyalty was to
provide them with good quality work and at affordable prices. This was the
practical in George and Jerry where their services were highly demanded due to
their good quality outcomes they offered their clients.

3.3.2 Differences

Following the one month training program which intern carried out in G&J, intern
found out theory is quite different from practical. This is so because what intern
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was taught in class intern wasn’t able to implement. There were situation in which
intern fine difficulties in allocating resources to the right departments when intern
was being asked by my internship supervisor.
In theory you only get to learn on paper without actually implementing all
what you learn in to practice. It can also be said that with only theory without
practical’s one won’t have the skills to work in any organization. So working with
one without the other won’t give you a high chance to be an expert in to the job
market.

In class, it was taught that one of the ways to increase customer’s loyalty was
to provide them with good quality work and at affordable prices. This was the
practical in George and Jerry where their services were highly demanded due to
their good quality outcomes they offered their clients.

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 CHAPTER FOUR

EVALUATION OF THE INTERNSHIP

4.1Strengths and Weaknesses of the Organisation

G&J co.ltd has always stood to be one of the top leading construction companies in
the South West Region and also in other regions of the country. The organization
derive its strength from the following as seen bellow

 George and Jerry Co. LTD is a renounced construction company in Cameroon

especially in the English speaking regions in Cameroon and this gives the
Company strength against it competitors.
 The employees in George and Jerry are efficient with their job and this helps
to reduce expenses and it improves profits. The company has carried out so
many projects some being the rehabilitation project of the Buea Regional
hospital, installation of electric poles in the Molyko Buea, and many more
others not mention. This is strength to the company because it helps them
acquire more project proposals from the Government.
 George and Jerry Co. LTD are in partnership with SATOM Cameroon and
this partnership agreement is a great strength to the company as they are not
only into construction alone. The partnership with this other company help
the quickly realize their project. SATOM provides the company with
building materials when they don’t have enough finances. This gives a
stronger strength to the company.
 Weakness of the Organization

The organization does not have a project management department to handle the
planning, scheduling, controlling, budgeting and monitoring of the Company’s

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 project so as to avoid extra cost or waste of resources. This makes it a
weakness for the organization because a construction project manager and
department are essential for every construction company for it to run smoothly
and effectively.

 ORGANISATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Organizational opportunities represent the power points of the company

which can benefit employees and company; this also consists of the
opportunities of the company which keeps the external environment satisfied.
Some of these include: George and Jerry co.ltd ensures that the workers
become financially independent and can appropriately survive from the
salaries they earn, and partnering with a bank which salaries are being paid
in to, and there by obtaining loans at a lower interest rate. This therefore
reduces the chances of staffs having unsafe borrows illicit transactions,
sales of property, stealing and others.

The company also has sub branch offices around the country, thereby
making them having a greater dominance in the building construction
company, and can still survive efficiently even if one goes down. The
organization has shares in various banks.

These shares can sustain the organization even in case of bankruptcy.

The organization with its expansion plans, products and services, provides
them with distinctive competences, competitive advantage through its
competitive strategies.

The organization has a way to indemnity a deceased member’s family

through the risk management insurance scheme. Opportunity to reach highly

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 productive and secured forums with its many services and help it gives its
affiliates.

 ORGANISATIONAL THREATS

There is a threat to the company in respect of competitors such CHARIOT

construction company. The emergence of many construction companies today is a
threat to the company operations as they will have to Share the market and
everything in it. The rate of investment today has increased; consequently, they
are many building construction companies, thus creation of constant threat to the
company revenue in respect to having market.

4.2 Evaluation of internship

4.2.1 Positive Experience

 The intern was able to know how to be creative and innovative and also know
that there are the backbone of the organization, which is and aspect that make
the organization to stay long in the business.
 The intern was able to know how to carry out SWOT analysis of the company.
 The intern was able to know how to do data collection in the field during
practical work. The intern also learned the various skills in data collection such
as communication skills.

4.2.2 Negative Evaluation

 One of the problems faced during the internship was the noisy atmosphere
since the organization was located by the roadside. This hinders the intern
from concentrating.
 Limited time to study which was caused by the too many shift of the
internship training

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 Poor weather. The intern did the internship during the rainy season in
Cameroon and due to this some internship activities were disturb such as
data collection.
 The intern had a problem of distance couple with the fact that traffic is
sometimes so high in Buea, thus this makes the intern to come late
sometimes.

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RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS

5.1 Recommendations
 It will be efficient if George and Jerry co.ltd should increase its number of
personnels so as to make the management and training activity efficient.
 The intern thought it wise that George and Jerry co.ltd should look for a
location with quiet atmosphere for the organization rather than at the
roadside where there is too much noise. This will increase the level of
concentration during working hours.
 More so the organization should buy more equipment needed for the training
such as computers, photocopy machines, internet storage box, to be more
effective and efficient.

5.2 CONCLUSION
To conclude, the intern thinks that if the above recommendations are taken in to
consideration, George and Jerry co.ltd will be the best building construction
company in Cameroon, and thus will help to increase Cameroonians Human
Capital thereby increasing economic growth in Cameroon.

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REFERENCES
Wikipedia (internet services)
G&J co.ltd project management book of knowledge
HIMS library

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APPENDIX

6.1 Geographical location.

6.2 picture services of the organization.

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Geographical Location of company in the South West Region of Cameroon from
mile 17-motor Park

To Molyko

GTTC BUEA UB-CAMPUS

To Muea

Mile-17 Motor Park

To mile 16

G&J

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