Effect of teamwork quality on project performance: The moderating role of project management culture in selected ICT companies in Nigeria

Despite the plethora of pressing efforts that usually emanate from organizational leaders to foster the achievement of project success and thus, reap the important benefits associated with this outcome, evidence from research indicates that most projects, particularly in developing countries, continue to fail due to a lack of the required level of understanding of project critical success factors by most project stakeholders. Thus, to address this shortcoming, this study advances knowledge by proposing teamwork quality as one of the important antecedents of project performance. In addition, it also introduces project management as an important boundary condition under which the above effect is likely to be exercised. By focusing on the project sector of the Nigerian Information Telecommunication Technology, research data were obtained from a total of 176 project managers who were randomly selected, and this formed the basis of analysis. Through hierarchical moderated regression analysis, it was evident that teamwork quality positively impacts project performance at a level that is statistically significant. Furthermore, in addition to positively and significantly affecting project performance, project management culture was also shown to interact positively with teamwork quality to impact project performance, meaning that this variable serves as a significant moderator in the relationship between teamwork quality and project performance. Thus, in line with these findings, it was recommended that project managers should foster the adoption of a project culture whenever they are faced with the option of making use of the inherent strength in team collaboration to enhance project performance.