EFFECT OF MANAGERS’ COMPETENCIES ON SUCCESS OF AGRICULTURE PROJECTS IN RWANDA. PROJECT FOR RURAL INCOME THROUGH EXPORTS (PRICE)
Journal Title: European Journal of Business and Social Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Projects remain the instruments of choice for policy makers in international development. Yet, paradoxically, the poor success of projects seems to have become the rule and not the exception in contemporary reality. The general objective of this research was to assess the effects of managers’ competencies on success of agriculture projects in Rwanda; Specific Objectives were to analyze the effects of risk management competencies on the success of the agriculture project; to evaluate the influence of communications competencies in the success of agriculture project ;to analyze influence of managers planning competencies on the success of agriculture project; and to establish the relationship between competencies managers and success of agriculture project in Rwanda. This study may be significant to the different users; such as researcher, owners of the project, University and other research in the field under study. This study adopted descriptive design to get results expected from this study. The total target population was 126 people. The data collection instruments in this research were questionnaires and interview. The statistical analysis were used, descriptive statistic to analyze responses were frequency and percentage for respondent’s profile and other general information related to the research objectives while inferential statistics , both Pearson correlation and linear regression analysis was used to determine the effect of independent to the dependent variable. The study used SPSS and found that the regression analysis equation is success of agriculture projects = 1.005 + 3.114* communication skills, this implies that slope equals to 3.114, and this means if effectiveness of communication skills increased by one per cent, the success of the project also increased by 3.114.The study also used Pearson correlation coefficient and found that the coefficient r equals to 0.906.This leads to confirm that there is significant relationship between competencies of managers and success of agriculture projects. The study concluded that the difference between the success and failure of the project is often the difference between a project manager who is highly organized in planning and one who is not. The Study recommended that competencies of managers must not be coerced but rather, sensitized to the employees on the benefits of competencies of managers.
Authors and Affiliations
Bagambe John Bosco| Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kigali, Rwanda. Email: bazirbori@yahoo.co.uk, Dr. Kule Julius Warren (PhD)| Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kigali, Rwanda. Email : kulewarren@gmail.com, Dr. Jaya Shukla| Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kigali, Rwanda. Email: js.jayashukla@gmail.com
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