Project Management Practices: A Key for Organizational Performance: An Empirical Review

Abstract

This paper entitled “Project Management Practices: A Key for Organizational Performance.” The paper explores how the project culture and organizational leadership play an important role in organizational project management performance. Project Management practices is unavoidable in any organization and even in everyday life. A project is known as a sequence of connected activities, conducted in an organized manner, undertaken in a defined period of time and designed to generate a well-defined result. Considering the influences imposed by the external environment, often characterized by frequent changes that may have positive or negative effects, organizations have to react fast in order to take advantage of opportunities and to protect them from threats. Because of this, project management practices can be seen as tool of management used in improving operationalization and implementation of change in any organizations. We consider important for this paper to determine the practices of project management by the managers of any organizations, as the main element of improving operationalization and implementation of organizational change

This paper tries to display the various concepts of project, types of project, important of project, Characteristics of project, project methods, and other important concepts, this article closes with recommendations and measures to be taken to enhance project management practices in order to realize the institutional or organizational goals.

Some scholar in their articles provides the evidence that shows that project culture and organizational leadership have a positive relationship with organizational project management performance in any organization. It is concluded that the study has a prospective use as framework to assess the project management performance, by conducting more empirical study and checking the impact. The study also will contributes to establish clear reference points based on leadership qualities and mature organizational project management to allow organizations to determine roadmap to higher maturity level.