| dc.description.abstract | Globally many road contractors have failed in performance. In addition,
performance measurement systems are not effective or efficient to overcome this problem.
Road contractor‟s performance problem appears in many aspects in developing countries.
Many road projects fail in time performance, others fail in cost performance and others fail
in other performance indicators. In Kenya, there are many road contractors who have failed
in performance. In the past, many road projects were finished with poor performance
because of many contractors‟ reasons such as: benchmarking, management, application of
information technology, IT and time schedule. It‟s against this realization that the current
study aims to explore factors influencing performance of road in Kenya contractor with
focus in Nairobi County. The study will focus on how benchmarking, project management,
IT and time schedule influence road contractors performance. The study will employ
descriptive research design while target population will be road contractors in Nairobi
County. The study will employ stratified sampling technique in coming up with a sample
size of 42 from a total population of 106 respondents. The study relied mostly on primary
data sources where self-administered questionnaire was utilized as source of data. Data was
collected purely quantitative. Quantitative data was coded and entered into Statistical
Packages for Social Scientists (SPSS Version 21.0) and analyzed using descriptive
statistics. The finding was presented inform of frequency tables while explanation was
presented in prose. The study concluded thatmost of the organizations employ
benchmarking as a tool for achieving partnering excellence in construction projects and
that benchmarking approach is used in our organization in order to determine the
organizational strong and weak points. Likewise the survey concluded that project
management influence road contractor‟s performance and that there exist relationship
between the two. Inclusively, the study concluded that one of the principle reasons for the
construction industry's poor performance has been attributed to the inappropriateness of the
chosen procurement system and that effective communication. Also the study concluded
that most of the organization applies IT in their operation as a mean of improving their
performances while it also eases the process and procedure of operation. Finally, the study
concluded that time affects effective and efficient delivery of road construction projects
while availability of resources as planned through project duration average delay in
payment from owner to contractor. | en_US |
