Necessary competencies of construction managers in a developing country

One of the most significant obstacles in a developing country is related to non-productive investments or delay on productivity of construction projects. Following the development in the business world, the challenges for handling the businesses toward productivity raised as well. Construction indus...

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Main Author:	Poor Sabet, Pejman Ghasemi
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48242/1/PejmanGhasemiPoorSabetMFKA2013.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.482422017-09-19T04:37:23Z Necessary competencies of construction managers in a developing country 2013 Poor Sabet, Pejman Ghasemi TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) One of the most significant obstacles in a developing country is related to non-productive investments or delay on productivity of construction projects. Following the development in the business world, the challenges for handling the businesses toward productivity raised as well. Construction industry plays an important role in the foundation of economy everywhere. Therefore, to undertake and push the projects through the challenges to achieve the productivity and the business advantages, a proper leadership by a competent Construction Manager (CM) is essential. Necessary competencies as the first objective, the importance of the competencies as the second objective, and finally prediction of a competent manager leading to a successful construction project based on CM’s “Big Five Traits” as a psychological factor through the dominant challenges at working environment is as the last objective. In order to gather data, both quantitative and qualitative surveys were employed in the study. Interview, Delphi method, and questionnaires analysis have been utilised to fulfil the three objectives respectively. By the results of the survey, the projects’ authorities can recognize the essential competencies, the level of competency, and finally a predictor for prominent construction managers based on CM’s Big Five traits as a psychological factor before employment 2013 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48242/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48242/1/PejmanGhasemiPoorSabetMFKA2013.pdf application/pdf en public http://libraryopac.utm.my/client/en_AU/main/search/results?qu=Necessary+competencies+of+construction+managers+in+a+developing+country&te= masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
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description	One of the most significant obstacles in a developing country is related to non-productive investments or delay on productivity of construction projects. Following the development in the business world, the challenges for handling the businesses toward productivity raised as well. Construction industry plays an important role in the foundation of economy everywhere. Therefore, to undertake and push the projects through the challenges to achieve the productivity and the business advantages, a proper leadership by a competent Construction Manager (CM) is essential. Necessary competencies as the first objective, the importance of the competencies as the second objective, and finally prediction of a competent manager leading to a successful construction project based on CM’s “Big Five Traits” as a psychological factor through the dominant challenges at working environment is as the last objective. In order to gather data, both quantitative and qualitative surveys were employed in the study. Interview, Delphi method, and questionnaires analysis have been utilised to fulfil the three objectives respectively. By the results of the survey, the projects’ authorities can recognize the essential competencies, the level of competency, and finally a predictor for prominent construction managers based on CM’s Big Five traits as a psychological factor before employment
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Poor Sabet, Pejman Ghasemi
author_facet	Poor Sabet, Pejman Ghasemi
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title	Necessary competencies of construction managers in a developing country
title_short	Necessary competencies of construction managers in a developing country
title_full	Necessary competencies of construction managers in a developing country
title_fullStr	Necessary competencies of construction managers in a developing country
title_full_unstemmed	Necessary competencies of construction managers in a developing country
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