Influence of Stakeholders Involvement on Project Performance: a Case of Nema Automobile Emmission Control Project in Nairobi County, Kenya

Abstract

Stakeholder Involvement in project management plays a critical role in project performance. In Kenya, National Environmental Management Authority initiated Automobile Emission Control Project. This has involved a number of stakeholders who include; the government through Ministry of Energy, United Nations Environmental Program, Automobile vehicle manufacturing companies, petroleum refining companies and Non-governmental organizations. The specific objectives were to determine the influence of stakeholder involvement in project identification on performance of automobile Control Project, to determine the influence of stakeholder involvement in project planning on performance of automobile Control Project, to establish the influence of stakeholder involvement in project implementation on performance of automobile Control Project and to examine the influence of stakeholder involvement in monitoring on performance of automobile Control Project. This study adopted descriptive survey research design as it enabled collection of data to answer to research questions. The target population to be used for the study was Automobile vehicle companies, petroleum refining companies, and environmental management organizations, the Ministry of energy and NEMA. The study population was 181 respondents who were managers, project managers, operation managers, supervisor and quality control officers. Stratified samplings were adopted to select a sample size of 125 respondents. The study used both primary and secondary data. The questionnaire was used to collect primary data and had both open and close-ended questions. Secondary data was collected from organizations reports on Automobile emission controls. The collected data was edited for completeness and consistency and then coded and entered into SPSS for analysis. Descriptive analysis such as percentage, frequencies, means and standard deviations was use to analyze quantitative data. Content analysis techniques were used to analyze qualitative data collected using open ended questions. Inferential analysis correlation and regression was done to examine the relationship between stakeholders’ Involvement and project performance focusing on NEMA Automobile Emission Control Project in Nairobi County. The study revealed that stakeholder Involvement in project identification has significance influence in Automobile Emission control project Performance. The results show stakeholder Involvement in project planning had a positive and significance influence in Automobile Emission control project Performance. The finding also revealed that stakeholder Involvement in project implementation has a positive and significance influence in Automobile Emission control project Performance. The results finally revealed that revealed that stakeholder Involvement in project monitoring has a positive and significance influence in Automobile Emission control project Performance. The results led to conclusion that stakeholder Involvement in project identification influence performance of Automobile emission control project. This study concluded that stakeholder Involvement in Automobile emission control project implementation influence project performance. The results led to conclusion that stakeholder Involvement in project monitoring influence performance of Automobile emission control project to a great extent. The study recommend management of the Automobile emission Control project should enhance stakeholder involvement in project identification, project planning, project implementation and project monitoring as it led to reduction in carbon xii emission rate, reduction in operation cost, led to cost efficiency and increase customer satisfaction.