Awareness and Knowledge of Project Management in Various Sectors of Nigerian Economy
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KUYORO Afolashade
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Abstract
Project management is a discipline faced with the challenge of achieving all of the project goals and objectives while honoring the preconceived constraints (scope, time, quality and budget) and thus optimizing the allocation of necessary inputs and integrating them to meet pre-defined objectives. This study seeks to explore the awareness of project management and also to know how knowledgeable the project managers are about project management methodologies in carrying out projects successfully in Nigeria. Well-structured questionnaires were distributed to four sectors of the Economy (Oil & gas, IT, Construction and Banking) using simple random sampling technique to select the participants for this study and quota sampling technique for the selection of the Project Managers. The questionnaires were analyzed using the Statistical Package and Service Solution (SPSS) version 21.The outcome of the distributed questionnaires showed that 78.3% of the respondents were aware of project management while about 50% of the project managers under this study proved to have a good knowledge of project management combining the three metrics (Certification, Experience and Exposure) which was used to access them.