An Assessment Of Project Management Competency: The Case Of Ethio Telecom
| dc.contributor.advisor | Bekalu, Wubishet (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Abebe, Kalkidan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-08T06:59:38Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T14:28:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-11-08T06:59:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T14:28:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-06-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The main purpose of this study was to investigate the most significant key competencies needed to be an effective project manager in the ethio-telecom. In addition it tried to assess the core project management competencies and deficiencies in Ethio telecom. In order to answer raised research questions, both primary and secondary sources of data were used. The primary data were collected through semi-structured interview. Non probabilistic sampling procedure with a combination of purposive and judgmental sampling method was used to obtain 30 responses from selected project managers, project team members and human resource managers. Document review was used to investigate the project management practice and documentation of the company. Regarding the study findings, this study found project managers in Ethio telecom have soft competences like project communication management, stakeholder management and project human resource management and they need improvement in their skills related to conflict management, contract management and negotiation. And about the hard competencies, Ethio telecom project managers need to improve planning of schedule, documentation of each project lifecycle completion, risk management including the mitigation strategies and developing requirements. As per the result of the analysis, project managers and the company were not conscious and focused related to technology transfer from the vendor to the right person , preparing and documenting lesson learned, and imitating different technology from the vendor in order to handle by internal human capacity. In general the researcher found that, project managers, of Ethio telecom are experienced in managing the functional/operational area of the company and mostly the assignment of the project managers were done by the top level management of the company. The researcher recommended that for better improvements of project managers’ competency and achieving success in project management in the company, the company should mature the project management office which can support all projects and the company should work in the direction of imitating different technology from partners and being focused in technology and knowledge transfer to manage projects with internal capability in the near future. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/13920 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | project managers | en_US |
| dc.subject | soft and hard competency | en_US |
| dc.subject | project success | en_US |
| dc.title | An Assessment Of Project Management Competency: The Case Of Ethio Telecom | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |