Stakeholder Relationship Management in Construction Projects in Australia

RUNNING HEADER: Masters research theory and practices
Masters research theory and practices
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RUNNING HEADER: Masters research theory and practices
Introduction
Generally, construction projects in Australia include different stakeholders. The discussion is
about the construction projects which have changed the general outlook within the country.
This suggests that we have categories such as construction managers, contractors, the clients
and also sponsors among others (Ahsan & Gunawan, 2010,p.68). All the groups basically
determine the success of the project. This is determined by each extra mile each member is
adding to the construction project. Therefore from the topic then it shows that stakeholder's
relationship management in construction projects then it is just having a clear understanding
of the roles expected by the party's involved. Cities, estates, states and towns in Australia
have expanded through the use of construction projects (Alzahrani & Emsley 2013,p.313).
This suggests that project construction entities such as managers who ought to understand all
the important roles needed while working. This shows that research is under the field of
construction and it will include all the necessities required in determining the success of
construction projects in Australia. In addition in Australia, in most construction projects, the
stakeholder's conflict tend to deter the progress. This, in fact, tends to affect the general
operation in construction projects. The literature review discusses the secondary sources
relevant to the topic (Bryde, Broquetas & Volm, 2013, p.677). Theories have been given that
fully describes the success in managing stakeholders in construction projects. In some cases,
challenges in Australia may tend to reduce the economic growth within the country. The
objective of the research is to analyse the key factors that will facilitate apt management of
construction projects in Australia. The objective determines the scope of the research since it
will discuss the field of construction. The research uses both qualitative and quantitative
methods to analyse how management in construction projects have been handled in Australia.
The limitation of the research is that not all respondents gave the exact information. Second,
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the information is all about the construction of buildings thus excluding other construction-
related projects such as construction projects in infrastructures in Australia (Chan, Lam,
Chan, and Cheung & Ke 2010, p.99).
Literature review
With the increased focus on the different aspect of stakeholder's management in construction
projects then various issues on success factors existing in several construction projects are
thoroughly described in the literature. There has been an increasing number of studies in
Australia which have tried to identify the importance of stakeholder's management in
construction projects. Despite the effort on looking the construction factors, it's unfortunate
that the construction project in Australia is facing huge challenges (Cheung, Chan &
Kajewski, 2012, p.45). This suggests that the construction project has a poor record in
managing the stakeholders in Australia. There have been a number of challenges faced by
construction projects as revealed by different researchers. First, there is an aspect of
inadequate engagement of the stakeholders in construction projects in Australia. Also, there
are other problems such as lack of clear objectives for the stakeholder's management, issue of
inadequate communication to the stakeholders in construction projects and lastly inability to
detect the ‘invisible' stakeholders in construction projects. The research carried out was to
detect how these problems have challenged the entire field.
Therefore, in order to solve the problems identified then all the teams need to come up with
apt measures that will aim to secure the construction field in Australia. Therefore to identify
the key essentials needed in construction projects then critical success factors were identified
in the study. (Doloi 2012, p.267).The approach as described by different researchers then it
tries to reveal the entire concept that describes the topic of concern. Generally, critical
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