A construction manager's technical knowledge competency model for the Malaysian construction industry / Hairuddin Mohammad

A construction manager's technical knowledge competency model for the Malaysian construction industry / Hairuddin Mohammad

Malaysian construction industry (MCI) is regarded as one of the significant industry that drives the country forward. Although having recorded 7.4% of positive growth in 2016, the progression of MCI was hampered by a considerable number of recurring problems such as delays, wastages, cost overruns,...

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Main Author: Mohammad, Hairuddin
Format: Book Section
Language:English
Published: Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2018
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Malaysia
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21987/
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spelling uitm-219872018-11-03T04:54:05Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21987/ A construction manager's technical knowledge competency model for the Malaysian construction industry / Hairuddin Mohammad Mohammad, Hairuddin Malaysia Malaysian construction industry (MCI) is regarded as one of the significant industry that drives the country forward. Although having recorded 7.4% of positive growth in 2016, the progression of MCI was hampered by a considerable number of recurring problems such as delays, wastages, cost overruns, and disputes. Consequently, contractors' faults are to be blamed, through their incompetent construction manager (CM) to deliver construction projects. Even though there are provisions of education and training for CM, continuous critiques on its ineffectiveness were reported. Eventually, it was observed that lack of term of reference on the technical knowledge competency for CM is became the major setback. Therefore, the research aims to establish generic technical knowledge competency model for CM through three objectives that were outlined by the research, namely; (1) to identify the generic technical knowledge competency of Malaysia's construction managers, (2) to analyse the importance of the generic technical knowledge competency of construction managers towards categories and grades of Malaysia's contractors, and (3) to analyse the corroboration level of the existing CM education and training offered compared to the generic technical knowledge competency. Pragmatic mixed methods research was selected by employing qualitative and quantitative approaches. In short, multi-layered thematic (MLT) analysis was embedded into literature analysis to maintain reliability, before proceeded to validity as in semistructured interviews towards related academicians and practitioners in construction. Later, to analyse, validate and generalise the findings to the masses, questionnaire surveys were distributed to contractors around the peninsular of Malaysia… Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2018 Book Section PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21987/1/ABS_HAIRUDDIN%20MOHAMMAD%20TDRA%20VOL%2014%20IGS%2018.pdf Mohammad, Hairuddin (2018) A construction manager's technical knowledge competency model for the Malaysian construction industry / Hairuddin Mohammad. In: The Doctoral Research Abstract. IGS Biannual Publication, 14 . Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM, Shah Alam.
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A construction manager's technical knowledge competency model for the Malaysian construction industry / Hairuddin Mohammad
description Malaysian construction industry (MCI) is regarded as one of the significant industry that drives the country forward. Although having recorded 7.4% of positive growth in 2016, the progression of MCI was hampered by a considerable number of recurring problems such as delays, wastages, cost overruns, and disputes. Consequently, contractors' faults are to be blamed, through their incompetent construction manager (CM) to deliver construction projects. Even though there are provisions of education and training for CM, continuous critiques on its ineffectiveness were reported. Eventually, it was observed that lack of term of reference on the technical knowledge competency for CM is became the major setback. Therefore, the research aims to establish generic technical knowledge competency model for CM through three objectives that were outlined by the research, namely; (1) to identify the generic technical knowledge competency of Malaysia's construction managers, (2) to analyse the importance of the generic technical knowledge competency of construction managers towards categories and grades of Malaysia's contractors, and (3) to analyse the corroboration level of the existing CM education and training offered compared to the generic technical knowledge competency. Pragmatic mixed methods research was selected by employing qualitative and quantitative approaches. In short, multi-layered thematic (MLT) analysis was embedded into literature analysis to maintain reliability, before proceeded to validity as in semistructured interviews towards related academicians and practitioners in construction. Later, to analyse, validate and generalise the findings to the masses, questionnaire surveys were distributed to contractors around the peninsular of Malaysia…
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title A construction manager's technical knowledge competency model for the Malaysian construction industry / Hairuddin Mohammad
title_short A construction manager's technical knowledge competency model for the Malaysian construction industry / Hairuddin Mohammad
title_full A construction manager's technical knowledge competency model for the Malaysian construction industry / Hairuddin Mohammad
title_fullStr A construction manager's technical knowledge competency model for the Malaysian construction industry / Hairuddin Mohammad
title_full_unstemmed A construction manager's technical knowledge competency model for the Malaysian construction industry / Hairuddin Mohammad
title_sort construction manager's technical knowledge competency model for the malaysian construction industry / hairuddin mohammad
publisher Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM
publishDate 2018
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/21987/
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