- Title
- The role of management in the causes, effects and incidence of construction project delays
- Creator
- Smit, Gerrit
- Subject
- Project management -- South Africa
- Subject
- Construction industry -- South Africa -- Management Industrial management -- South Africa Transformational leadership -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- DPhil
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20681
- Identifier
- vital:29371
- Description
- The construction industry is known as a very highly-fragmented industry with a large number of activities involving different parties and professionals such as project managers, architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, contractors, suppliers and financiers. As it is a fragmented industry, management efficiency and competency in the industry is needed to gain a higher level of competitiveness. Although it is often clear what the causes and effects of construction projects delays are, little attention has been given to the role of management in the causes, effects and incidence of construction project delays. This research fills this gap in the literature. For the study, a theoretical framework to investigate the role of management in the causes, effects and incidence of construction project delays was developed. The framework showed how four management functions predicted the causes, effects and incidence of construction project delays. Nine factors were identified as the causes of construction project delays, namely, clients, contractors, labour, equipment, materials, consultants, community, contract and external issues. For the study, three effects of delays were proposed, namely, finance related delays, human related delays and legal related delays. In addition, the incidence of delays included the frequency of delays and duration of delays. This framework was empirically tested, and partial correlations were used to test the four hypotheses of the study. Three of the four hypotheses were accepted while the forth one was only partially-accepted. It was determined that demographics significantly predicted organising and leading of contractor managers in construction project delays. More specifically, demographics influenced how contractors with different educational levels executed organising and leading in managing construction project delays. The results further showed that management functions employed in construction projects, predicted five of the nine causes of construction delays. Further, the causes of construction project delays predicted both frequency and duration representing the incidence of construction delays. Lastly, the causes of construction project delays predicted the financial, human and legal effects of construction delays. The empirically-tested framework produced only two factors causing construction project delays. Factor one included variables relating to contractor and consultant related issues, and factor two included community, contractual and external issues. The factors for the effects of construction project delays and incidence of construction project delays remained the same. Respondent contractors in this study indicated that education was important as it influenced both leadership and organising functions of these contractors. Age, sex and other demographics did not influence the management functions for these contractors. Although much has been written on the causes, effects and incidence of construction project delays, very little attention has focussed on the role of management in these. For the respondent contractors who were included in the research, the two management functions that would influence the causes, effects and incidence of construction project delays, included organising and leadership. It further showed that these contractors were adequately dealing with planning and controlling, but needed to pay attention to organising and leadership.
- Format
- xiv, 189 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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