Study on the influence of head of project team role throughout JKR project life cycle

Abstract

This study is conducted to identify the competency skills that a Head of Project Team (HOPT) should have to influence a successful project performance. HOPT as the project manager and lead person in project implementation, has full responsible towards the project outcomes and always constantly been pressured from internal and external stakeholder that share the same concern towards the successful of the project. As for this, top management of JKR feel that there is a need to identify what are the others competency skills that they had to acquire in order to become more competence and had greater influence towards the project life cycle and successful of the projects and the come out with recommendation to improve HOPT role. The aim of this research is to identify the competency skill that HOPT needs to acquire in order to influence the successful of the project through their role within project life cycle. Three objective were identified which are to identify project performance criteria, identify' competency skills for HOPT and propose recommendation to improve HOPT role. This study used questionnaire form as the main approach, which were distributed equally to three sectors in JKR (HOPT, HODT & SO). The questionnaire survey was developed based on factors identified from literature to meet objective of the study. From the findings, the project performance criteria were identified and been group under few categories namely project management aspect, management aspect and team aspect. The competency skills identified were group into three categories namely management knowledge and skill, technical knowledge and skill and interpersonal knowledge and skill. Lastly, the recommendation to improve HOPT role were identified and been group into three categories which are understanding and knowledge, processes and practices and lastly organization.