An investigation into the performance of Ghanaian construction project teams
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November, 2015
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Increasingly, project teams in the construction industry are usually established as soon as
new project start. This is done to meet today’s competition and customer expectations. A
project is said to be successful when it meets all the project objectives; time, cost and
quality. To ensure that the project meets its objectives, construction project team must
perform successfully and very effectively. Creation of a very effective project team will
yield a successful project outcomes that will surpass the project requirement and achieve
overall success. This study aimed to assess the performance of Ghanaian construction
project teams by identify the construction project team characteristics, factors that
constitute the project team performance measurement and measure the project team
performance base on the team performance measures. To achieve this an extensive
literature research was carried out to identify the characteristics and the factor that
determines the performance of project teams. Eighty (80) construction project team
characteristics and a forty (40) factors of project team performance measurement were
identified. Quantitative research methods were adopted for this study, of which are
survey questionnaire were used to solicit data from the ongoing and newly completed
construction project in the tertiary institution in Ashanti region. Sixty – four (64)
questionnaires were retrieve out of Seventy (70) distributed. The data collected was
analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS), which include relative
importance and factor analysis. Also a project was selected as a case study to measure the
performance of the project team. The study revealed that performance of project team
members is very vital to the overall performance of the project team and project success
as a whole having a mean score of 4.151 on the ranking of the seven (7) main factors of
project performance measurement identified. This means that the higher the performance
of project team members, the higher the project realizing its success. Secondly, every
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effective project team must inherent certain unique characteristics to be able to perform
effectively. Fourteen (14) common characteristics identified in the Ghanaian construction
project team, some are; Good working relationship among team members, Concern for
team members because taking good care of the team members, Effective motivation
systems for team members, Concern for each other member of the team, Setting of
achievable goals for the teams, Subgroups are incorporated into the team. The overall
team performance of the selected project was found to be 66.86%. The study revealed
that performance of the individual project team members is very vital to the performance
of the construction project team as well as it vital to every project success. The outcomes
from this study are anticipated to assist the top management and project team leadership
to increase their knowledge on project team characteristics and factors that contribute to
team performance measurement.
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A thesis submitted to the Department of Building Technology, College of Art and Built Environment,
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in
partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Master of Science in Construction Management.