ASSESSING THE ROLE AND SKILLS OF PROJECT MANAGERS IN FEDERAL ROAD PROJECTS

The project manager’s responsibilities are to plan and control company resources efficiently and to complete the project on schedule, within the budgeted costs and specified quality towards making the project a success. However, many reports have shown the opposite results. Studies on this issue are pointing towards the poor understanding of good practice as a basic problem for the failures in project management. The objective of this paper is to assess the current role, responsibility, authority and skills applied by project managers and to identify the current practise of project managers in federal road projects. The methods utilized to collect and analyse the data’s were by distributing questioners, reviewing different literatures and interviewing road project managers, senior executives and company owners of the relevant projects. The collected data shows that a good project manager must have both technical and soft skill and also Training and certification must be given for project managers in order to enhance their managerial role in projects