To investigate the impact of project manager’s personality traits on the project success in software industry of pakistan
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2019
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UMT Lahore
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As we know that technology is advancing day by day and that’s why the software industry has very much importance all over the world and it plays an important role in the growth of the economy. Many types of research have been done in the software industry side but no emphasis has been done between the project manager’s characteristics and project success. As a project manager is the team lead and guides the team members to achieve success in different projects. In my study, we have used the NEO-FIVE-FACTOR model to check the relationship between the project manager personality and project success. Like the relation between Openness to Experience (OE) and Project Success (PS), Extraversion (E) and Project Success (PS), Agreeableness (A) and Project Success (PS), Conscientiousness (C) and Project Success (PS) and Neuroticism (N) and Project Success (PS) in software industry of Pakistan.
In my study, I did convenience sampling in different software houses like NEXT BRIDGE, ILSA INTERACTIVE, FOLIO 7, ADSELLS ADVERTISING, STEWART PAKISTAN, etc. Data were collected through questionnaires from 150 project managers from these software houses of Lahore. The correct and acceptable questionnaires were 135. After data collection, I had applied different tests for reliability and validity of my questionnaire and check the assumptions which are necessary for this study, after that, I had applied multiple regression analysis to check the strength of the relationship between the independent and dependent variables.
It is clear from the result, the personality traits that have a significant positive impact on Project Success in the software industry of Pakistan are Openness to Experience and Extraversion. While other traits like Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism have no significant impact on Project Success.
From the literature, I have studied that Openness to Experience has a significant positive effect on project success. It is necessary for the software houses to hire those project managers who have the personality of openness to experience because the software development process is quite hectic and that needs a lot of knowledge about the changing technologies. This can only be done when a project manager has the personality of exploring and learning new things and this will increase the success level of the projects. Similarly, studies showed that Extraversion has the significant positive impact on project success and my study also tells that in Pakistan there is positive relationship of openness to experience and extraversion to project success and conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism are also the important traits for project success but my study tells that they have no significant impact on project success.