Impact of stakeholder influence on project success: evidence from Asanko Gold Ghana Limited.
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2021-06-17
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Abstract
Project stakeholders are organizations or persons who actively engage in the project
or whose anticipations and needs negatively or positively impact how project
activities are completed or carried out. Project stakeholders sometimes have
conflicting opinions regarding the factors most crucial that result in severe roadblock.
The project team must understand the situation at hand, manage squarely the
demands, and promote communication that is proactive with all the project
stakeholders aiming to deliver a successful project. The current study focuses on
assessing the effect of Stakeholder Influence on Project Success using Asanko Gold
Ghana Limited as a case study. The issues the study concentrates on are various
stakeholders and their roles, and stakeholder influential variables. The study used
fifty-two (52), respondents. The instrument for the data collection was developed by
the researcher, preceded by a pilot study. The pilot study was initially conducted on a
similar project in the mining sector to ascertain its validity and reliability. The data
for the study was basically from a primary source in that closed-ended questionnaire
was designed and distributed to respondents. The data generated were analyzed using
the mean score ranking. Descriptive statistics were used to test the data. The study
concludes that communities directly affected by mining operations are recognized on
the project to be the crucial stakeholders and therefore play a vital role in the project.
Again, the study indicated interest is one of the most important stakeholder influential
variables that affected the Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) Project. Further, the study
found that performance is one of the important project success criteria of the TSF
Project. Based on these, the study recommends that stakeholders especially, Asanko
Gold Ghana have formal analysis of the downstream impact on community
stakeholders, ecosystems and critical infrastructure in the event of catastrophic failure
been undertaken and to reflect final conditions.
Description
A thesis submitted to the Department of Construction Technology and
Management, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of
Master of Science in Project Management
Keywords
Impact of stakeholder, project