Exploring leadership qualities of project managers for successful project execution
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2021-07-12
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Abstract
Strategic means of achieving organizational goals is to undertake projects and organizations spend
huge sums of money to execute projects. However, recent studies show that most projects fail or
are abandoned despite advances in knowledge in project management. Therefore, this study aimed
at exploring leadership qualities of project managers for successful project execution. The research
had three (3) objectives; to identify key leadership qualities of project managers, to identify key
factors for successful project execution and to establish the relationship between leadership
qualities and factors for successful project execution. Extensive literature review was conducted
based on each objective and variables were identified. The study adopted a quantitative research
method and thus, a structured questionnaire was developed and distributed to project managers
whiles sixty (60) responses were retrieved for the analysis. The data were analyzed using mean
score ranking and regression analysis. With the success criteria, the highest ranked success
criterion was schedule success factor, followed by quality success factor, health and safety success
factor and cost success factor. With the leadership qualities, the highest ranked leadership quality
was managerial qualities dimension. With the relationship between leadership qualities and project
success, schedule success factor, relationship with stakeholders and health and safety success
factor has significant positive relationship with leadership qualities. Based on the findings, it was
recommended that, project managers must enhance their leadership qualities to improve on the
success factors realized on projects. Also, project managers must also enhance their managerial
leadership qualities in terms of managing resources, efficient communication and achieving
objectives as a way of improving on leadership abilities
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A thesis presented to the Department of Construction Technology and Management, College of Arts and Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award degree of Master of Science in Project Management.
Keywords
Leadership qualities, Project successes