Assessment of Project Managers Competency at Bole Arabsa Condominium Housing Project
| dc.contributor.advisor | Markos, Solomon(PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yared, Ruth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-11T08:09:20Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T14:25:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-04-11T08:09:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T14:25:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-11-19 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this research is to assess the management competency of project managers in the case of condominium housing project. The research purposefully takes the population which only found in projects in Bole Arabsa project Addis Ababa. Both primary and secondary data were collected to achieve the intended research questions and objectives. Data collected using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Specifically, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews to key informants were employed as instruments of data collection. The respondents were all project managers and site engineers who are involved managing the project. 20 Questionnaires were distributed to project site engineers. The interviews were conducted with 5 project managers of the different sub project groups in the same site. The findings of this study revealed that: project managers of the site are more in to the technical skills competency rather than the behavioral. The combination of both soft and hard skills was lacking in the project. The project managers have good knowledge and understanding about what is the overall management competency and goal of the housing project but couldn’t apply their knowledge due to different reasons. The research findings show that there is no time centered training for its employees and no induction training for new employees. If any, company mostly focuses on technical skill trainings. The findings also support among different types of project competency the project manages under Bole Arabsa Condominium Housing project has shown less function on Self-development, Personal Integrity and systemic integration compared to the other competency. Consequently, implementing strong accountability, strengthen auditing and controlling system, improving working procedure, giving deep training on project management core competency and timely assessment and evaluation of project managers on their performance etc. are recommended as remedy to solve the problem in housing projects. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/17842 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Condominium Housing | en_US |
| dc.subject | project manager’s competency | en_US |
| dc.subject | technical skill | en_US |
| dc.subject | human skill and project competency | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of Project Managers Competency at Bole Arabsa Condominium Housing Project | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |