Project Management (PM) Tools: Awareness, Acceptance of Learningand Use, User Selected Tools, and Usage Degree in Egypt: The Case Study of College of Management and Technology (CMT)

Abstract

This research aims to examine Project Management (PM) tools considering the awareness, acceptance of learning and use, user-selected tools, and usage degree in the College of Management and Technology (CMT), in light of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). Having most of HE community members in the same age range, although their diversity of awareness, motives to learn and use, tools selection reasons, usage degree of PM tools, and software encourage conducting such research. The research targets the project team leaders, supervisors, and managers (majored students and staff members) as PM tools' end-users. The research participants belonged to three departments in the CMT. The presence of courses with projects in their study plans was the selection reason. Thus supports the variability of end-users back-grounds, interests, learning competencies, readiness, and project sector. The participants were surveyed through a designed questionnaire. Some surveying questions were changed and analyzed independently in accordance to the participants' group. The sample reached 113 participants - 86 students and 27 staff members, a descriptive analysis, correlation, and chi-square tests were conducted. The research discussed the relationships between the awareness, acceptance of learning and use, user-selected tools, and usage degree and concluded that the enhancement of end-user learning and adoption practices relied on distinguishing the impacts of individuals' factors based on their belonged group. Such a step may support team leaders, supervisors, and managers with a guide on how to encourage end-user learning and adoption.