Impact of soft skills for project management success rate in banking situated in Kathmandu

Abstract

There have been various studies regarding impact of soft skills in project management within various sectors. Likewise this study also aims to examine soft skills and their impact for the success in project management in banking inside Kathmandu valley. A Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) are used in the study. The research study was designed to investigate the impact of soft skills mainly leadership skills and communication skills for the success in project management among banks within Kathmandu valley. In the study, two variables are taken as independent variables: leadership skills and communication skills. Here, project management (success rate) is taken as the dependent variable. Data collection is done with the help of structured questionnaire which was distributed among 85 bankers who have handled and executed projects in their workplace out of which 69 bankers represents the sample size. The research design embraced in the study consists of descriptive, relational and casual research designs. Various tools used for data analysis were mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance, correlation, regression etc. The findings revealed that leadership skills and communication skills have significant impact on project management success rate in banking situated within Kathmandu. Key words: Leadership skills, communication skill, project management, success rate, impact