Factual Success and Thriving Performance Required; Top Management and Project Manager Strong Coordination During Project Life Cycle

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify the role of top management (moderator) during planning, monitoring, controlling and evaluation phases. This paper also discusses the novelties of the coordination between role of top management and legitimate power of project manager has significant impact on project performance and success during project life cycle phases. This influence extends the theory of Personal Factor, Power theory, Project life cycle theory and enhances the role of project manager with coordination of top management. The instrument was adopted to measure the acquaintance of planning, monitoring, controlling, evaluation, role of project manager, project performance, project success and role of top management. Managers were targeted for data collection from construction sector, education sector and IT sector for analysis. After applying Bivariate (Pearson) Correlation and OLS regression it is concluded that there is positive relationship between planning, monitoring, controlling, evaluation and project manager. First homoscedasticity & multicollenarity were checked to run the moderation test. Top management has shown positive moderating effect on project performance and project success in all the phases except for the monitoring phase in project performance only. The findings of coordination between variables also show that project manager works like a bridge between top management and other team members in four phases of project life cycle (planning, monitoring, controlling and evaluation) for ultimate success. This study has significant advantage for the organization and industries before implementing any project. This will be helpful for the top management to give authority and responsibility to the project managers while considering the scope of the project. For academia this study helps to enhance the knowledge area of project management by introducing of coordination management while discussing the other knowledge areas of project management.