Benefits of Project Management Skills | Proposed Research Report

CQU University: PPMP20015 Term 1-2020
Assessment 1: Proposed Research Report
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Proposed research topic
The research proposal describes that present study will focuses on “Exploring the benefits of increasing
project management skills in the context of construction projects in Australia”.
1. Research gap and rationale for undertaking the proposed research
The investigation of the prior articles revealed that majority of the studies is conducted to understand the
needs and requirement of project management skills in construction projects. The prior research
involves understanding the overall context of the construction projects which require different skills and
abilities for the management of the skills in effective manner. This leads in providing complete
information regarding the reasons why project management skills are needed in the construction
projects. Through the analysis it is revealed that not much of the research is conducted to understand the
benefits for raising the project management skills and it is described that prior studies were not
conducted in the Australian construction projects. This is the research gap which can be taking into
further investigation. The analysis of the literature review also estimated that not much of the study used
quantitative approach that is most of the prior studies focuses on collecting and analysing the
information by adopting qualitative approach which includes that no scientific analysis is done to reveal
the objective of the research.
Therefore, to fill the above research gap the present research focuses on providing information about the
advantages as well as benefits for project management skills in the construction projects of Australia.
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The present research supports in conducting the research in Australia it is because project management
skills is considered necessary aspect for getting the development of the construction projects. The
proposed research will be close to the research gap because of providing information about the
percentage of construction projects which successes in Australia through increasing project management
skills in comparison to the construction projects which conducted with lower skills. The proposed study
will take into consideration Australian construction projects which prior studies do not much involved
and give knowledge. Furthermore, the proposed research will be conducted by using quantitative
approach; therefore the proposed research can close the gap and can provide new information about the
subject matter.
The present research is considered important because it provide knowledge to the other companies
which focus on developing construction project to develop opportunities to skills of their labor and
workers to management project in efficient manner. So that it provide several benefits to the
organizations. The proposed research also describe skills which can be adopted to develop efficient
construction projects and which can provide some advantages to the companies that is reduction in the
cost and expenditure. This supports in giving overall information about the proposed topic and helps in
achieving the objective of conducting the research. However, the proposed research fill the gap of the
prior studies and this research will use different methodologies and research philosophies to maintain
validity in the study.
2. Literature review of ten (10) scholarly journal articles
a) Literature review
Project management skills
The research conducted the study to understand the project management skills which is increased to
manage the construction projects in effective manner (Ma et al., 2014). The analysis revealed that
communication and risk management skills are the efficient skills because of clearly communicating the
work which is to be done. The managers also moved from various risky activities this skills supports in
managing and controlling the risk. From the investigation it is revealed that risk management is the
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skills which should be increased among the labor because of reducing the potential risk so that best
practices are adopted by the manager and labor which all are in the construction projects (Ma et al.,
2014). The research gap revealed that this research only focuses on the limited skills of construction
projects.
The project management skills the appropriate approach for development of the project and it leads in
reducing the risk and increase team work as well as coordination in the construction projects
(Khamaksorn, 2016). The objective of the study is to understand the skills which are to be increased in
the construction projects mangers so that more success of the project will be revealed. From the analysis
it is revealed that technology skills is the new skills which should be provided to the construction
project managers because of having broad understanding and knowledge of technology (Khamaksorn,
2016). Therefore, at the same time it should also be the particular technical grip to exploring the
condition of the project. From the investigation it is revealed that negotiation is the efficient skill which
is used in increase in the construction project (Ogunde et al., 2017). It is because this supports in
effective management of the resources and selecting the budget so that role will be conducted in
significant manner. The research gap of the study is that it does not provide information about effects of
this skills on the construction projects.
Reasons of adopting project management skills
The study was conducted to investigate the reasons and causes which give to the managers to increase
the project management skills (Meng & Boyd, 2017). The analysis revealed that construction projects
include high risk because of including various technologies and performing other hazardous activities.
The analysis also describes that project management skills increased because of deciding the budgets of
the construction projects and resources which are required in developing construction projects.
Therefore, researcher revealed negotiation skills is considered highly important for the construction
projects. It is because of utilizing the construction management software and leads in increasing the
development of project (Meng & Boyd, 2017). The research gap of the research is that it does not
include specific region for providing information about skills in construction projects.
The objective of the study is to find the reason of requiring the project management skills, the data
collection was done through adopting the opinions of the labour and employees who all are involved in
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