Quality management practices in construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry

There is a gap of understanding on the practices of quality management in the building construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry as similar researches are hardly obtained from the literatures reviewed. This research is conducted to minimize such gap of understanding. It...

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Main Authors:	Tan, Chin Keng, Abdul Rahman, Hamzah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2009
Subjects:	HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/2315/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/2315/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/2315/1/Microsoft_Word_-_AUBEA2009Paper_FinalManuscripts_-TanChinKeng.pdf

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spelling	iium-23152015-07-08T01:12:53Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/2315/ Quality management practices in construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry Tan, Chin Keng Abdul Rahman, Hamzah HD28 Management. Industrial Management There is a gap of understanding on the practices of quality management in the building construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry as similar researches are hardly obtained from the literatures reviewed. This research is conducted to minimize such gap of understanding. It aims to identify the constructs of quality management practices and explore the practices of quality management in building construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry through a questionnaire survey. The research findings reveal that there are weaknesses in the practices of quality management at the aspects cost of quality, information and analysis, quality attitude and culture, customer focus, and continuous improvement and sustainability. It is recommended that the construction organizations to enhance their awareness and commitment on the implementation of formal quality management system to improve the weaknesses in their quality management practices. 2009-07-07 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/2315/1/Microsoft_Word_-_AUBEA2009Paper_FinalManuscripts_-TanChinKeng.pdf Tan, Chin Keng and Abdul Rahman, Hamzah (2009) Quality management practices in construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry. In: 34TH AUBEA Annual Conference, 7-10 July, 2009, University Of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. http://aibs.com.au/e_news/resources/aubea_call_for_papers.pdf
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spellingShingle	HD28 Management. Industrial Management Tan, Chin Keng Abdul Rahman, Hamzah Quality management practices in construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry
description	There is a gap of understanding on the practices of quality management in the building construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry as similar researches are hardly obtained from the literatures reviewed. This research is conducted to minimize such gap of understanding. It aims to identify the constructs of quality management practices and explore the practices of quality management in building construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry through a questionnaire survey. The research findings reveal that there are weaknesses in the practices of quality management at the aspects cost of quality, information and analysis, quality attitude and culture, customer focus, and continuous improvement and sustainability. It is recommended that the construction organizations to enhance their awareness and commitment on the implementation of formal quality management system to improve the weaknesses in their quality management practices.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Tan, Chin Keng Abdul Rahman, Hamzah
author_facet	Tan, Chin Keng Abdul Rahman, Hamzah
author_sort	Tan, Chin Keng
title	Quality management practices in construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry
title_short	Quality management practices in construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry
title_full	Quality management practices in construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry
title_fullStr	Quality management practices in construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry
title_full_unstemmed	Quality management practices in construction projects in the context of Malaysian construction industry
title_sort	quality management practices in construction projects in the context of malaysian construction industry
publishDate	2009
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