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ABSTRACT

A Study of the Influence of Project Manager’s Personality

on Project Performance

Teoh Yen Yen (PB13017)

Bachelor of Project Management with Honors

Faculty of Industrial Management, Universiti Malaysia Pahang

INTRODUCTION

OBJECTIVE/S

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Type of Study Quantitative Research

Instrument Questionnaires

Data Collection Non-face-to-face distribution

Sampling Method Random sampling (P: 98 S:78)

Data Analysis Descriptive analysis, Reliability

test, One Sample T-test , etc.

RESULTS

Influence of Project Manager Personality on Project Performance

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION

It is found that the common personalities of project managers in construction industry are Extrovert,

Sensing, Thinking and Judging.

Extrovert and Thinking project managers perform positively towards project performance in construction

Industry.

Limitations include time limitation, limitation of sample size and respondents not available.

Implication: A person may get some training to become proficient at using a less preferred dimension of

their personality. This training would allow them to better use another facet of their personality and thus

to manage projects more succefully (Maurizio Bevilacqua, Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica, Michele

Germani, Giovanni Mazzuto and Claudia Paciarotti, 2014).

The suggestion for the future study could be to enlarge the sample size in order to get more accurate

results on the influence of project manager’s personality on other project based industry and.

PERSONALITY INDICATOR

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is chosen to test

project manager’s personality.

Four pair of dichotomous personality are to form 16

types of personalities.

It suits for measuring project manager’s personality

(Hammer &Barger and Dolfi &Andrews ,2007)

METHOD

RO 1: To identify the common personalities that project

managers in construction industry..

RO 2: To investigate the influence of project manager’s

personality on project performance in construction

industry.

Project Manager plays an important role in executing a

project. There is relationship between the project

manager’s personality and project performance.

Project manager’s personality is one of the factors that

affect project performance. However, there was no result

showing the influence of project manager personality on

project performance (Maurizio Bevilacqua, Filippo

Emanuele Ciarapica, Michele Germani, Giovanni

Mazzuto and Claudia Paciarotti, 2014).

Many industries state that the factors influence the construction project performance include design and drawings, poor coordination among participants, ineffective

monitoring and feedback. However, researchers have identified that there is relationship between the project manager’s personality and project performance and some

researchers have proposed that project manager’s personality might be one of the factors that affect project performance. Therefore, this study is aimed to study the

influence of project manager personality on project performance. 48 questions of personality test and 14 questions of project performance test was passed to 98

respondents out of which 78 responded. In this research, researcher identified the common project manager’s personalities such as extrovert, sensing, judging and thinking.

Besides, the extrovert and thinking project managers contribute positively to the project performance. With the evaluation of the influence of project manager’s personality

on project performance, it could raise up the industrial awareness to recruit project manager based on these types of personalities in order to achieve better performance in

construction projects.

Reliability Test Common Personality of Project Manager

REFERENCE

• Müller, R. and Turner, R., 2007. The influence of project managers on project success criteria and project success by type of project. European Management Journal, 25(4), pp.298-309.

• Bevilacqua, M., Ciarapica, F.E., Germani, M., Mazzuto, G. and Paciarotti, C., 2014. Relation of project managers' personality and project performance: An approach based on value stream mapping. Journal

of Industrial Engineering and Management, 7(4), p.857

Figure 1 Comparison Percentage Between

the Dichotomous Pair of Personality

Table 1 Cronbach’s Alpha of

Dependent Variable

Table 2 Cronbach’s Alpha of

Independent Variable

Table 3 Percentage of Different Type of Personality

Project Manager Belong to

Table 4 Significant Value of the Extrovert Project Manager

in the Project Performance

Table 5 Significant Value of the Sensing Project Manager

in the Project Performance

Table 6 Significant Value of the Thinking Project Manager

in the Project Performance

Table 7 Significant Value of the Judging Project Manager

in the Project Performance

Table 10 Result of Thinking and Judging Project Manager

on Each Project Performance

Table 9 Result of Extrovert and Sensing Project Manager

on Each Project Performance

Table 11 Overall Project Manager Performance with Different Personality

Table 8 Mean Value of Different Personality of Project Manager

in Different Project Performance