The impact of employees’ project commitment and its effect on IT industry of Pakistan

Efficient Project management processes are fundamental to developing cost effective and quality softwares. Commitment plays a vital role in reducing the variances and slippage in project cost and schedule. Commitment can be differentiated as internal and external. This research paper explains how internal commitment may affect the performance of IT projects. Also, the paper emphasizes on how commitment is induced and how to gear up the fulfillment of commitment within the team. An interview based survey of well known IT based companies has been carried out. The results of the survey indicate that Affective commitment of project managers ensure successful IT projects, while the disrupted commitment can cause project failure.