Project Management Causes of Project Success: The Case of Selected Public Building Construction Projects in Jimma Town

Abstract

Ethiopia is one of the developing countries which cannot accomplish its construction industry goals due to lack of identifying different major success factors. The aim of this study was to analyze the project management causes of project success factors in selected building construction projects in Jimma town. The study was conducted based on the data obtained from the clients, contractors, consultants, project Managers and subcontractors currently working on public building construction in Jimma town. A purposive sampling, where the researcher selects a sample based on their knowledge about the subject of the study, has been employed. A total of 38 sample respondents consisting of 6 clients, 8 Contractors, 8 Consultants 8 project managers, and 8 subcontractors were involved in the study. The data needed to achieve the research objectives have been obtained from the respondents through questionnaire and interview; and the data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively through descriptive statistics. Accordingly, the results revealed that there was a high degree of agreement among the five categories respondent; Human-related factors were having the greatest influence for project successful implementation and achievement of project objectives. All the Spearman rank correlation coefficients were strong and positive which shows a high agreement between the rankings of the five categories respondents, Kendall’s W was 0.942 which shows that there exists a high degree of agreement across the categories and Since the computed Chi-Square value (X 2  67.50) is less than the Chi-Square critical ratio. There are fifty factors were considered in the economic model, Out of those 18 of the variables were founds to be significant at five percent significant level significant, while the remaining factors were not significant in explaining the variations in the dependent variable. The researcher forward to Project team are good communication with their project team, project managers must always bear in mind that successful project management techniques will contribute to the achievement of projects.