The Role of Team Work on Project Performance in Health Care Projects: The Case of Capacity Development in the Field of Training for Health Care Specialist and Technicians
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2022-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The aim of this project work was to determine the impact of teamwork on project performance in the case of a selected health care project under the Ministry of Education "Capacity Building in the Field of Training for Healthcare Specialists and Technicians" project. This study evaluated teamwork practice in the case project and the link it has with meeting project deliverables: staying within project budget, and operating on schedule and beneficiary satisfaction. The study also attempts to assess the influence of team members' contributions and teamwork efforts on project performance in healthcare projects. The study will examine present teamwork levels in order to evaluate project performance, and it will seek to discover a direct relationship between successful teamwork primary determinants and project performance. The study was casual explanatory research in order to produces quantitative data and provides statistically conclusive to test three hypotheses about the relationships between teamwork determinates and project performance. The results have revealed that team work dose play a role in project performance in the case project, and out of the studied threes teamwork determinates two in particular have shown a positive and significant relationship with project performance. The highest impact comes from through “Open communication and positive feedback” showing substantial relationship with project performance followed by “commitment to team success and shared goals”. However, the remaining identified effective team work determinants have shown to have less effect on project performance. Therefore, based on the findings of the study, the researcher recommended that
MoE, and other healthcare projects should focus on finding ways to boost this effective teamwork determinates for a greater project performance in their respective institutions.
Keywords: Projects, teamwork, effective teamwork determinants, project performance