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The role of the upper echelon in achieving project management maturity

Over the past few decades, project management as a discipline has undergone significant development and gained visibility in all types of organizations. Therefore, increasing number of different projects is professionally managed and many organizations use project management during their operations and processes in order to plan, manage and complete them successfully. The main reason for this is the growing pressure on managers to integrate, plan and control the schedule-intensive and unique efforts to improve the overall organizational performance. However, according to various reports there is still a large number of projects that do not end successfully. Also, in those reports success factors have been identified and among the most important ones is the top management support which becomes even more relevant with the introduction of maturity models that provide a framework for evaluating project management maturity and creating a strategic plan for the improvement of project management practices in the organization. The top management team should therefore be involved in projects, take action, participate in the resolution of conflicts and ensure continuous feedback. Furthermore, the top management team is responsible for ensuring links between organizational plans and objectives and purpose of selected projects and creative processes used. Consequently, successful project management requires planning and support from the top management team to ensure benefits for the organization and enable preparations for the future. The research in this paper was conducted on 500 best companies in Croatia according to added value and the results indicate the existence of the relationship between the demographic characteristics of the top management team and the level of maturity achieved for internal projects, and therefore represents a good starting point in the research that relate the elements of the project management and corporate strategy.

internal projects ; project management ; project management maturity models ; top management team demographics ; Upper Echelon Theory

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