The Assessment Of Project Team Management Practices: A Case Of Addis Ababa Universty College Of Health Science

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2017-06

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Addis Ababa University

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Addis Ababa University College of Health Science has gone through a series of reforms to alleviate the country’s health related problem; consequently the university hunt to conduct highly impacting researches and undertakes different projects. This study was conducted to assess the project team management practices and to identify possible gaps of project team management practices of Addis Ababa University College of Health Science. Exploratory and Descriptive research design were applied for this research. For data collection semi-structured and open –end interview were prepared and conducted to those purposively selected14 project managers and 1 human resource manager. Self-administrative questionnaires also prepared and conducted for 59 project team members who were drawn through stratified sampling method with the combination of simple random sampling technique. The finding of the study identified the problems and the practices of the project team management in the study area. The team managing practices were encouraging with some limitation: the team had regular meeting; the team was available on the time needed regardless of the influence from functional units; and also the team was evaluated for their performance even-if it had poor feedback. In practices of team development there were good relationships within the team; and between the team and project manager. But the practices of reward and benefit schemes were poor, and also practices of motivating the team were insufficient. The team acquiring practices were very poor; the team was not hired in a required time, required number and the source of vacancy method also not sufficient. The study concludes that the practices of team acquiring were not effectively practiced, team developing practices were insufficient and the team managing practices were effectively practiced. Based on the finding, recommendation provided for Addis Ababa University College management towards and effective project tam management. The project team acquiring policy, procedure and structure should be revised. Furthermore developing project coordinating office would help to get a fast and facilitated administrative and functional unit services for the success of projects while creating a smooth work environment for the team and project manager

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project, practice, team management

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