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FIGURE 11: BOTTOM FIVE CONTEXTUAL COMPETENCY ELEMENTS
The majority of the ratings for each of the competencies was either very important or moderately important. At a mean of 4.16, the behavioural competencies were ranked second most important by the respondents.
Behavioural Competencies
The behavioural competencies were also closely rated with a rating point difference of 1 between the highest and lowest rated competencies. TABLE 5 STATISTICAL FREQUENCIES OF BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES Mean
Median
Std. deviation Skewness
Std. error of skewness
4.1588 4.1905
0.29981 0.129 0.448
The analysis (σ = 0.299) indicates that most of the responses are close to the mean and this is confirmed by the skewness (0.129).
The top-rated competency is to communicate effectively (mean = 4.70). Communication is important in any project and it is seen as so important that the major project management standards have dedicated entire knowledge areas to communication (Project Management Institute, 2013, Association for Project Management, 2006). It is, however, quite interesting to note that the setup of the communication infrastructure was not perceived as important and was rated among the bottom five technical competencies.
The competence of reliability was also rated very high with a mean of 4.50. The involvement of participants rated high, with the competencies of providing direction and commitment coming in at
THE DISPARITY BETWEEN PROJECT SUCCESS AND PROJECT MANAGERS' COMPETENCIES 1119