The effect of Organizational Culture on Project Management performance: The case of Ethio Telecom
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2019-09
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Addis Ababa University
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Ethio Telecom had been embarking on programs worth of Billions of dollars in the past 10 years, and becomes mind taking to pay attention of what unique culture might be drawn of Ethio Telecom and how that very culture affected the project management performance of programs or the projects with in the programs. Accordingly, the primary objective of the study was to assess organizational culture of Ethio Telecom and reflection of these culture on Project Management Performance. Clan, Adhocracy, Hierarchy, and Market were taken as main elements of organizational culture to study the reflection of these cultures on Project Management Performance. The methodology to conduct the research was based on interview and questionaries’ for the primary data, and documents from Ethio Telecom and research papers for the secondary data. The study uses Exploratory Sequential Mixed Method (QUAL -> quan ) design in determining relationship between the different types of Organizational Culture and Project Management Performance. Data collected from interview were used as a guideline to develop questionnaire instrument and data from questionnaire response were analyzed with the help of descriptive method of data analysis using statistical software (SPSS)V20. Results shows that Ethio Telecom owns elements of organizational cultures that belongs to all the four main categories of organizational culture (Clan, Adhocracy, Hierarchy and Market) and determined to have relation to the organizations’ project management performance KPIs. The outcome of this work will serve Ethio Telecom to evaluate its current organizational culture and make possible move towards its improvement. Since the mean average of all forms of cultures were slightly above average, recommendations are drawn to strengthen the currently available organizational culture through the establishment of responsible work unit for the better of the organizations’ project management performance
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Organizational Culture, Project Management performance, Ethio Telecom