Hiring Practices Effect on Project team Monitoring. Bureaucratic Theory at the Public Sector

Abstract

Hiring practices are vital for any organization because they have consequences for its success and goals meeting, and it has a significant effect on many other organizational variables as literature shows. On the other hand, project team management practices are very important to any Civil Services Sector (CSS) because they affect projects success that consumes big resources of a nation treasury and can affect citizens' life as literature confirmed. This research aims to examine the influence of hiring practices of Palestinian CSS on project team management practices. This research is designed as quantitative study that uses correlational design. A questionnaire was designed to meet the need for collecting primary data from the community. The tool was conducted through google forms to ensure proper timing of responses and proper collection for data. Moreover, the SPSS program and the Smart PLS Version 4 were used to analyze the data and to confirm research tool reliability and validity. The population was the supervisory-positions employees who work at Ministry Of Education of Palestine (MoE) with total number of 644. A sample of 341 was selected randomly at a confidence level of (0.05). The response rate was 95.9 %. Findings indicated that employment policies implementation and recruitment practices can affect project team monitoring practices. Where no significant effect was found of selection practices on project team monitoring practices. To sum up, improving hiring practices will lead to better project team monitoring practice. This study is very important for CCS leaders, human resources managers, project managers, and policy makers. Increasing project team management efficiency will help Palestinian for better utilization of the scarce resources and will increase the CSS project goals meeting.