Track: Operations Management

Abstract

Project management is growing as the favorite approach to achieve goals and for it to be regarded as crucial, there is need for top management to see it as such so that it may be justified to come up with a unit aside from the routine structure of a company. As such there is need for a study that aims at identifying the common issues in project management (PM) in South Africa.  In light of this, the study will attempt to determine the importance planning, scheduling, monitoring and controlling of projects. The study made use of the qualitative methodology approach. Semi structured interviews were used to gather information from employees at different levels in terms of the organizations’ hierarchy and work experience. The research results will add to the already available information on this subject. Also, the study has recommendations that can also assist organization in the implementation of their projects.