Impact Assessment of Project Manager’s Competencies on Project Success in Hei’s Of Pakistan: The Moderating Role of Communication Technology

Abstract

The basic aim/objective of this research is to measure the impact of competencies of PM on project success or failure when communication technology moderates the relationship. The main focus of this research is on higher education institutes of Pakistan. This study is quantitative in nature. PM competencies act as the independent variable having three attributes i.e. Knowledge, skills, and Experience. Project Success is acting as dependent variable having four attributes i.e. cost, stakeholder satisfaction, quality and schedule. Communication Technology is acting as moderating variable in this study. The sample size for this study is 380 from population size of 40,000 using non-probability sampling. To analyze data, SPSS is used. Due to shortage of time, only 211 responses collected. The result of study shows that there is statistically significance relationship between competencies of PM with success of project. When using communication technology as moderating variable, it increases the chances of success to 19.6%. These finds helps the PM to enhance his/her competencies and also focus on usage to IT tools and IT infrastructure in order to increase the chances of project success.