| The construct of trust has been shown to influence organizational effectiveness in general. Project estimating has been identified as a key component of an effective project management methodology. This research explored the potential association between organizational trust and the accuracy of a firm's project management estimating methodology. Differing levels of organizational project management maturity and project manager competency were controlled so that estimating processes are evaluated among companies with similar levels of estimating process competency. The study reviews historical theories of organizational trust, the appropriate measures of that construct, and theoretical analyses applied to the practice of project estimating. With that framework, this research found a positive correlation between organizational trust and accurate project cost, schedule, and risk estimating. |
