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    Challenges Of Project Management Practice In Ethiopian Airports Infrastructure Development Projects
    (Addis Ababa University, 2019-09) Aragaw, Misgana; Atara, Adane(PhD)
    The main purpose of the study was to identify and evaluate the challenges encountered through project management practices in Ethiopian Airports Infrastructure development projects. The study aims to point out these difficulties and thus improve the project management practice in order to benefit from the findings. A descriptive research method was used in order to achieve the intended purpose of the study. Questionnaire, interview and review were used for the purpose of collecting required data for the study. The Questionnaire survey were collected from the Ethiopian Airport employees who are directly involved in infrastructure development project planning, Executing and controlling. Purposive sampling technique was employed in selecting the samples. The data were analyzed using software Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS V.20) to generate mean, frequencies, standard deviation and percentages of the statics. The study found out that among 45 challenging factors identified in the literature participants are agreed on 18 factors as a significant challenge in projects they have been involved recently. Again ten of the identified factors are the major significant challenging factors these are; These are Lack of Project Management Skills and training in project management; Unexpected events with no effective response possible; Project schedule delays; Changing requirements late in the project and continuing change requests; Low commitment of Stakeholders towards planned projects; Failure to manage expectations; Poor risk management; Not obtaining stakeholder approval; Low commitment of Stakeholders towards planned projects; Lack of clearly defined Rules and procedures for project management. Furthermore, the study revealed that factors within four knowledge areas including Enterprise Environmental factors are significantly challenged; these are Project Risk Management, Project Schedule Management, Project Stakeholder management and Project Scope Management. Therefore, based on the findings, it is suggested that stronger emphasis should be given on the major challenges identified in the study, appropriate project management methodology should be adopted and all factors should be studied carefully.