The Applicability Of E-Leadership On Project Management Performance In Public Institutions Dodoma Region, Tanzania

ABSTRACT

The study aimed at evaluating the applicability of e-leadership on project management performance in public institutions Dodoma region, Tanzania. The study identified the current ICT systems in use for project management performance in an organization, determined application of ICT in project management performance in the public organization projects by project managers and assessed the impact of e-leadership on project management performances. Open and close-ended questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and documentary review was employed in the field. Additionally, the total of 40 respondents involved in the study whereby 30 were project supervisors, and 10 were project managers from selected public institutions dealing with road and building constructions namely, TARURA, TANROADS and TBA. Moreover, data of both types qualitative and quantitative were analysed by the support of computer software SPSS version 23.0, then presented in frequencies, percentages, tables and figures. The findings indicate that, 70% of all respondents were aware about e-leadership whereby 77.3% of them proved on applicability of e-leadership in the study area. DROMAS and e-government highly mentioned as ICT systems used by the selected public institutions. It is necessary for the public institutions to create technological infrastructures for communication and ensure that, communication occurs frequently. E-leadership considered being a social influence process mediated by technology; hence e-leaders should also ensure that, there would be time set for discussing important issues regularly and also to create an open atmosphere where time could be available for building interpersonal relationships with greater consideration of technological changes and improvement.