A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
An exploratory study of accountability in the context of construction project management
The research is directed essentially at Project Management (PM) in property development and construction, and serves to explore the application of the Accountability concept within this context. In broad terms, it comprises an examination of PM - in terms of the role, the arrangement, and its participants - from an accountability perspective. For the purposes of the study, accountability is treated as the "answerability for one's responsibility". Drawing extensively from sources outside the field of PM, a conceptual framework of accountability is developed. This allows a shift in attention from single point responsibility towards management accountability of the PM role, and forms the basis for addressing PM through three constituent sub-concepts - "project accountability", "professional accountability", and "legal accountability". Project accountability is tied to the achievement of the project's agreed parameters and is considered more powerful than the idea of project authority. Professionalisation of PM is examined against the proposition of an increasing professional accountability. An assessment of the areas of potential liability in PM completes the examination through an analysis of legal accountability. The empirical portion of the study explores participant perception of accountability relating to the project manager, the PM arrangement, and their own positions. Based on field survey data obtained through a self-administered questionnaire to a sample of 140 project participants from 33 PM arrangements, findings from the research data indicate: (1) a general agreement among participant groups in their overall perception of accountability, (2) that in-house project managers are perceived as more accountable than external project managers, (3) that the level of participants' involvement is positively related to their accountability and to their level of exposure to professional negligence, and (4) a positive correlation between a PM arrangement's accountability and effectiveness, and negative correlations ...
An exploratory study of accountability in the context of construction project management
The research is directed essentially at Project Management (PM) in property development and construction, and serves to explore the application of the Accountability concept within this context. In broad terms, it comprises an examination of PM - in terms of the role, the arrangement, and its participants - from an accountability perspective. For the purposes of the study, accountability is treated as the "answerability for one's responsibility". Drawing extensively from sources outside the field of PM, a conceptual framework of accountability is developed. This allows a shift in attention from single point responsibility towards management accountability of the PM role, and forms the basis for addressing PM through three constituent sub-concepts - "project accountability", "professional accountability", and "legal accountability". Project accountability is tied to the achievement of the project's agreed parameters and is considered more powerful than the idea of project authority. Professionalisation of PM is examined against the proposition of an increasing professional accountability. An assessment of the areas of potential liability in PM completes the examination through an analysis of legal accountability. The empirical portion of the study explores participant perception of accountability relating to the project manager, the PM arrangement, and their own positions. Based on field survey data obtained through a self-administered questionnaire to a sample of 140 project participants from 33 PM arrangements, findings from the research data indicate: (1) a general agreement among participant groups in their overall perception of accountability, (2) that in-house project managers are perceived as more accountable than external project managers, (3) that the level of participants' involvement is positively related to their accountability and to their level of exposure to professional negligence, and (4) a positive correlation between a PM arrangement's accountability and effectiveness, and negative correlations ...
An exploratory study of accountability in the context of construction project management
Yuen, Christopher Leong Hoe (author)
1990-01-01
Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
690
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