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A Principal Component Analysis of Project Management Construction Industry Competencies for the Ghanaian

Construction Economics and Building

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Title A Principal Component Analysis of Project Management Construction Industry Competencies for the Ghanaian
 
Creator Dobgegah, Rockson
Owusu-Manu, De-Graft
Omoteso, Kamil
 
Subject Management
Factor Analysis, Project Manager, Project Management, Project Control, Project Planning
Construction
 
Description The study adopts a data reduction technique to examine the presence of any complex structure among a set of project management competency variables. A structured survey questionnaire was administered to 100 project managers to elicit relevant data, and this achieved a relatively high response rate of 54%. After satisfying all the necessary tests of reliability of the survey instrument, sample size adequacy and population matrix, the data was subjected to principal component analysis, resulting in the identification of six new thematic project management competency areas ; and were explained in terms of human resource management and project control; construction innovation and communication; project financial resources management; project risk and quality management; business ethics and; physical resources and procurement management. These knowledge areas now form the basis for lateral project management training requirements in the context of the Ghanaian construction industry. Key contribution of the paper is manifested in the use of the principal component analysis, which has rigorously provided understanding into the complex structure and the relationship between the various knowledge areas. The originality and value of the paper is embedded in the use of contextual-task conceptual knowledge to expound the six uncorrelated empirical utility of the project management competencies.
 
Publisher UTS ePRESS
 
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Date 2011-03-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/1680
10.5130/AJCEB.v11i1.1680
 
Source Construction Economics and Building; Vol 11, No 1 (2011): AJCEB; 26-40
2204-9029
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/1680/2195
 
Coverage Ghana
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Rights Copyright (c) 2011 Rockson Dobgegah, De-Graft Owusu-Manu, Kamil Omoteso
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