| dc.description.abstract | Teamwork approach is a feature of the construction industry in the sense that construction
projects are delivered by various professions who work as a team. These professionals may
include architects, contractors, material suppliers, specialists, government planners and
engineers. Teams in construction projects are developed as soon as they begin a new project.
Little focus has been given to teamwork in road construction projects in this country. It is
believed that adoption of teamwork enables project teams to create an environment that
facilitates knowledge sharing among employees. Despite these initiatives, team work approach
in road construction projects still requires much attention and improvements. Thus, with the
key objective in project management being ensuring successful completion of projects and
given the fact that project managers have been reluctant in adopting teamwork due to limited
research and inconsistencies in research findings, the need for more research in this area is
identified. KeRRA projects are not exception and therefore, there was need to carry out the
current study to establish the effect of team work approach on performance of road
construction projects in Kenya. In Kenya team work has been encouraged in every sector,
more especially in construction industry so as to improve performance and create good
working environment. It is not clear whether teamwork in road constructions yield any result at
the end of the projects. This study therefore, was a descriptive-based research looking at the
contribution of teamwork approach to project performance. In particular, this study focused on
team leadership, team trust, team spirit, recognition and reward and how they influence road
construction project performance in Kenya. The target population included KeRRA
officials/project managers, consultants and contractors at Kericho County, giving a total
number to eighty three (83). Since the population was small, census sampling technique was
appropriate; this means the entire population in this research was subjected to the study.
However, the study adopted a stratified random sampling method to split the population into
three strata (i.e. KeRRA Project managers/coordinators, consultants and contractors).
Questionnaires and interview schedules were used to collect the data. The collected data were
cleaned, coded and entered to a computer Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS)
program for analysis. The responses from the open-ended questions were listed to obtain
proportions appropriately; the responses were reported by descriptive narrative. The findings
showed that teamwork has been encouraged in road construction projects; however, effort is
still required to improve the initiative and ensure that teamwork is fully implemented in
construction projects. It was found that findings showed that team trust, team leadership, team
spirit, recognition and reward had positive significant relationship with project performance.
The finding showed R square value as 0.588; indicating that team trust, team leadership, team
spirit, recognition/reward accounts for 58.8% of performance of road construction projects.
The study recommends for a well defined and realistic goals, roles and responsibilities in
construction projects. More so, the government must formulate policies to support team efforts
in construction projects. There is an opportunity to advance this research further by examining
factors relating to personal traits of team members in construction project and to establish their
influence on project performance. | en_US |
