Impact of skills, tools and innovativeness on project managers’ effectiveness
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Date
2012
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Chua, Seong Ghee
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The purpose of this research is to study the impact of skills, tools and innovativeness on project manager’s effectiveness. This is a quantitative research study target to all project managers, project leads, managers and as well as project contributors who work in any company in Malaysia. A total of 250 questionnaires have been distributed via email and hardcopies to the major industry state in Malaysia like Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Johor. Resulted with 133 questionnaires or 53.2% of completed questionnaires had been returned and to be used for statistical analysis. The analysis indicates that in knowledge and skill dimension like soft skill, technical skill and green skill play as importance role to drive and enables the effectiveness of a project manager. Besides, tools and techniques used and applied during project planning, monitoring and controlling also show as significant component in determine effectiveness of a project manager. Surprisingly, in the innovativeness dimension project manager with innovator characteristic show did not have significant influence for an effective project manager however project manager with adaptor characteristic was show significant to be an effective project manager which is contradict with the previous literature study. As a conclusion, in order to remain competitive, the project manager’s effectiveness are essential for any organizations when managing and handling projects.
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Master
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Business administration , Innovativeness , Project managers