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    Practices of Project Manager Selection in Ethio Telecom
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-06) Fentaw, Ali; Assefa, Teklegiorgis(Associate Professor)
    In this dynamic and complex business environment, project managers are expected to make business decisions as well as project decisions for achieving project success. Cognizant of this fact, Ethio telecom has assigned many project managers for the sake of achieving project excellence. The main objective of the study is to describe and examine the practice of project manager selection in Ethio telecom. The scope of the study is delimited in the area of project manager selection practice in telecom expansion program (TEP). The research is bounded by time and categorized under cross-sectional type. The design is descriptive one with purposive sampling technique. Data is collected both closed ended questionnaire and semi structured interview as a primary source. The respondents of the study are project directors, project managers and project team members and personnel management. And finally the analysis is using descriptive statistics and correlation coefficient. The main findings revealed that the knowledge areas of project management are not well exercised while assigning an individual as a project managers; their focus is on the technical skills while assigning an individual as a project manager and finally there is strong and statistically significant relationship between total selection criteria’s of project managers and project management knowledge and application. Hence it is recommended to have project manager’s selection criterion which is specific to cover decision maker’s requirements, to further extend skill requirements of individuals and to exercise knowledge areas of project management in the selection process of project managers