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(b) You are a manager of a civil engineering project and your monitoring indicators suggest that the project is behind the schedule. In order to bring the project back on the track, you asked your team to come to work on Saturday for four consecutive weeks. The staff is unhappy about your decision and do not want to cooperate. You know from a previous experience that forcing would deteriorate relationship with your team and you want to avoid that. You decided to use your interpersonal skills to persuade them. Demonstrate what approach and arguments you would use to convince your staff? [6 marks) (c) You work for a large international software engineering company specializing in a software development for construction industry. Your main duty is to test and debug codes for a range of programmes. While you work some portion of time on each project with various teams and project managers across functional departments, you are affiliated to the R&D department and report to the manager of this section. How would you classify the structure of your organization and what the advantages and disadvantages of this type of structure are from the point of view of management and efficiency of a project? [6 marks]