The paper explores how the project culture and organizational leadership play an important role in organizational project management performance. To what extent organizational project management maturity is used, close-ended questionnaires have been collected from the 85 respondents within the planning and development department of public universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The regression model was used and the result shows that project culture and organizational leadership have a positive relationship with organizational project management performance in public universities. It is concluded that the study has a prospective use as framework to assess the project management performance, by conducting empirical study and checking the impact. The study also contributes to establish clear reference points based on leadership qualities and mature organizational project management to allow organizations to determine roadmap to higher maturity level.
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To Cite this Article: Khan, S., Memon, N. S., & Ahmad, A. (2019). Evaluating Organizational Project Management Performance: Empirical Evidence from public Universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9(3), 676–690.
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