Vilasini, N and Neitzert, T (2012) Improving project performance through worker participation in alliance projects. In: Smith, S D (ed.) Proceedings of 28th Annual ARCOM Conference, 3-5 September 2012, Edinburgh, UK.
Abstract
Worker participation has a direct influence on construction project performance and is a major factor of productivity in construction. Alliance principles emphasize the significance of developing a culture for innovation with worker participation. Therefore, this study identifies the existing worker participation practices and their limitations in a typical alliance project. The study uses the case study approach with semi-structured interviews with alliance management and a questionnaire survey with middle level management to assess their perceptions on worker participation. The study reveals that regular worker performance appraisals, worker training and provision of project performance information to workers are important worker participation practices required in an alliance project. The way project teams are acknowledged and rewarded to increase participation also appears to be an area that considering the selected case study project can be developed further. In addition it would seem advantageous for the project to build worker participation practices from the very beginning rather than midway through a project.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | alliance project; bottom-up approach; case study; worker participation |
| Index terms: | productivity, survey, interview, case study, appraisal, bottom-up approach, project team, construction project, questionnaire, project performance |
| Subjects: | production management, project management theory and practice, management, factor and component analysis, project delivery, urban planning, data collection methods |
| Topics: | Governance, Project Management, Research Practice, Business Strategy |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCEA |
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