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Project Management Skills for Civil Engineering 1PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS FOR CIVIL ENGINEERINGNameCourseProfessorUniversityCity/stateDate
Project Management Skills for Civil Engineering 2Project Management Skills for Civil EngineeringOke, A.E., Omoraka, A.E. & Ayeni, I. (2017). Effect of project managers’ skills on construction project delivery. International Journal of Management and Decision Making, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pp. 107-130. AbstractManagers' skills are important requirement in managing construction projects, and as an effectivemanager, it is the vital responsibility of the project manager to ascertain that work efforts of other participants are guided toward the accomplishment of organizational objectives. The main aim of this study was to assess project managers' skills with a view to determining their effects on performance of construction projects. Data were collected with the aid of questionnaire administered on construction professionals. The results revealed communication, organizational and budgeting skills as the top three skills exhibited by project managers in project management (PM). Furthermore, architects and builders were revealed to exhibit most of the top three skills identified. The study therefore suggested Architects and Builders as the best professionals to carry out project manager's duties on construction projects in the absence of a trained personnel. The study also revealed a poor level of concordance between the PM skills exhibited by the four professionals considered. Finally, project managers' skills were revealed to have a significant effect on time, team and cost performance of construction projects.Keywords: Kendall’s coefficient of concordance, level of agreement, level of significance, project management, PM, project managers’ skills, project performance
Project Management Skills for Civil Engineering 3Zhu, W., Zeng, R., Li, X., Zhu, Y. & Zhang, Z. (2017). Managerial drivers of Chinese labour loyalty in international construction projects. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, Vol. 23, Issue 8, pp. 1109-1122.AbstractOrganization performance is becoming ever more dependent on employee loyalty in the international construction projects. However, the improvement of construction labour loyalty on construction sites remains a largely neglected measure for reducing their turnover and improvingtheir productivity. The purpose of this study was to quantitatively investigate the managerial drivers of labour loyalty, including macro-environment of the project host country, organizational living environment, job system, rewards, and communication, and to explore the significance of satisfaction as a mediating variable in the relationship between the managerial drivers and construction labour loyalty. First, hypotheses on the relationships between construction labour loyalty, satisfaction and the five managerial drivers were proposed. Second, structural equation modelling was adopted to test these hypotheses. Finally, the results demonstrated two types of influence paths: (1) macro-environment, job system and communication have significantly direct effects on construction labour loyalty, (2) mediated by satisfaction, organizational living environment and rewards offer positive indirect effects on construction labour loyalty. The first type of path serves as a long-term strategic orientation for improving labour loyalty. The second type of path is a tactic for short-term goals of labour loyalty enhancement. The research results can contribute to the body of knowledge of human resource management and the practice of enhancing labour productivity through improving construction labour loyalty in the context of international construction projects.
Project Management Skills for Civil Engineering 4Keywords: international construction projects, construction labour, loyalty, managerial drivers, structural equation modelling.Prascevic, N. & Prascevic, Z. (2017). Application of fuzzy AHP for ranking and selection of alternatives in construction project management. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management,Vol. 23, issue 8, pp. 1123-1135.AbstractThe construction project management (CPM) is very important and large segment of entire project management (PM). Realization of construction projects is usually long term process which requests significant financial, material, human and other resources to fulfil contracted obligations and achieve a good quality of works. Therefore, making good decisions with the satisfaction of various criteria is one of the main conditions to achieve planed business objectivesand finish the project in contracted time with good quality. This paper proposes a new procedure for determination of the weights of criteria and alternatives in the Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) with trapezoidal fuzzy number using a new method for finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the criteria and alternatives, which is based on expected values of the fuzzy numbers and their products. Local and global fuzzy weights of the alternatives are determined using linear programming. In the paper a formula for ranking fuzzy numbers by reduced generalized fuzzy mean is also proposed, since ranking by the coefficient of variation is not always reliable. In the presented case study, applying proposed method, from imprecise input data are obtained enough accurate and useful results for rational ranking of alternatives related tothe project realization.
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