The Influence of Stakeholders on Project’s Professional Team Selection: A Study of Their Influence on Project Performance in Ghana.
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2017-11-01
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Abstract
It is well known to the organizations howstakeholders‟ management is conducted has great
impact on project outcome. Stakeholder can be defined as “any group or individual who is
in favor of project stakeholders to achieve the project‟s objectives. Certain stakeholders such
as external factors, timing, change orders, cost issues project characteristic and client
resources‟ have a lot of influence on project managers ability to select project professional
team to deliver quality project. All this leading to complexity and uncertainty of construction
project, in order to solve these problems and deliver quality projects, project managers need
to understand factor that leading to stakeholders influencein Ghanaian construction industry.
Through data collection and analysis, this research intended to do just that. In conducting
the survey, data were collected from the contractors within the Greater Accra metropolitan
assembly. The data were analyzed using frequencies and relative importance index. The
analysis indicated that most of the respondents were of the view that their firms attach high
level of importance to external factors and Critical success factors influence stakeholders
management,stakeholders assessment was most important. Also it was deduced that out of
the various approaches of engaging stakeholders in a construction project, professional
service was the most important.Finally, it was gathered that among the various stakeholders‟
management method or response strategies, adaptation strategy was the most important. The
results identified six significant stakeholderinfluenceson selection project professional team,
as external factors management, time management, project characteristic and client
resources management, change order management, cost management andexternal factors
management was the most important.
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A thesis submitted to the Department of Building Technology, College of Arts and Built Environment in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science, November 2017.