Are organizational culture and team motivation vital to a project outcome?
How are organizational culture and employee motivation closely intertwined? And what can leadership do about it?
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Even though more and more organisations invest in project management training as a solution to improve the organisation performance and project outcomes, 70% of projects still fail as a result of unsuccessful project management (Standish Group, 2009) and it is not clear what contributed to their failure. According to Clayton (2015) some factors worth considering are the lack of team motivation and an organisational culture that does not encourage good project management practices.
What is organizational culture?
Organizational culture determines how and why things get done in your organization and is based in part on employees’ shared values, being defined by management, company history, its success and failure stories, its mission, vision and values, employees’ professional culture, etc. Leaders are still ones of the most influential by creating and maintaining a persona of what the organization is like.
