ASSESSMENT OF MANAGERIAL SUCCESSION PLANNING ON PROJECTS PERFORMANCE IN RWANDA: A CASE STUDY OF HUMANITARIAN FOOD INITIATIVE PROJECT
Journal Title: European Journal of Business and Social Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
The general objective of this research is to assess the managerial succession planning on the projects performance. Today’s projects must have the right people in the right jobs at the right times. They cannot afford to be performed without people who have the required qualifications and competencies to quickly fill a critical or key role when the need arises. All projects operate with the aim of achieving on its performance and become successful. Projects therefore design different measures that can help them achieve on performance, like proper designing and managerial succession planning. The researcher used a both analytical and descriptive design based on both qualitative and quantitative data while the population was 70 employees of the project. Questionnaires were used as the data collection techniques while data were collected from both primary and secondary sources. The collected data were presented using tables while analysis and interpretation was done based on the percentages and frequency of the collected data. Results showed that The majority of respondent means (4.52 aggregate mean) said that managerial succession planning in Humanitarian Food initiative project plays role in recruitment for tomorrow employment, that managerial succession planning mitigating and foreseen project risks, managerial succession planning allocating project resources according to priory activities, other respondents said that managerial succession planning plays role in talent management, managerial succession planning helps in knowledge transfer between employees, finally, other big of respondents said that managerial succession planning plays role in capacity building. The performance criteria and factors of the project, respondents revealed a results indicate that it was revealed that that the majority of respondent as indicated by the table above the strongly agreed that the project performance criteria are the following: efficiency use of Cost/ budget as first performance criteria of the project, the project gets on its performance because it meets desired quality of products delivered, again the project has technical efficiency in everyday activities, also the project has sufficient requirements in order to get on performance of the project, other important indicator of performance of project is achievement of targeted goals, finally all respondents means 70 (100.0%) said that the last important indicator of performance of project is time achievement.
Authors and Affiliations
Kanyana Luciana Kaihongani| Post Graduate student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology-Kigali Campus Rwanda, Jaya Shukla| Senior Lecturers; Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology-Kigali Campus Rwanda, Mbera Zenon| Senior Lecturers; Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology-Kigali Campus Rwanda, Mbabazi Mbabazize| Senior Lecturers; Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology-Kigali Campus Rwanda
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