Assessment of time management practices of small medium sized contractors in project delivery in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

The purpose of this article is to assess the effective time-management practices adopted by construction SMEs to enhance successful construction project delivery. A mixed methods approach, consisting of both quantitative and qualitative research methods was adopted. A questionnaire was distributed t...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Athenkosi Sogaxa, Eric Kwame Simpeh, Ruben Ndihokubwayo
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	University of the Free State 2021
Materias:	construction projects leadership and sustainable success project delays smes time-management south africa Building construction TH1-9745
Acceso en línea:	https://doi.org/10.18820/24150487/as28i1.5 https://doaj.org/article/6840f8e56e5f492a896f3538891b89e2
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:6840f8e56e5f492a896f3538891b89e2
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6840f8e56e5f492a896f3538891b89e22021-12-02T16:01:51ZAssessment of time management practices of small medium sized contractors in project delivery in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africahttps://doi.org/10.18820/24150487/as28i1.51023-05642415-0487https://doaj.org/article/6840f8e56e5f492a896f3538891b89e22021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/as/article/view/5434/4128https://doaj.org/toc/1023-0564https://doaj.org/toc/2415-0487The purpose of this article is to assess the effective time-management practices adopted by construction SMEs to enhance successful construction project delivery. A mixed methods approach, consisting of both quantitative and qualitative research methods was adopted. A questionnaire was distributed to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) management team purposively selected from CIDB Grades 1 to 4 registered contractors under the general building category. The quantitative data were analysed, using descriptive statistics. To validate quantitative findings, semi structured interviews were conducted with randomly selected respondents who were part of the survey study where content analysis was adopted. The findings revealed that the most adopted effective time-management practices to enhance the sustainable success rate of construction SMEs in South Africa included progress meeting with consultants to ensure regular monitoring of the work progress, strategic planning to recover time lost, effective management of subcontractors, and allocation of tasks to workers according to their skills and expertise. It should be noted that the quantitative findings were consistent with the qualitative findings, and revealed that effective project planning, periodic progress meetings and labour production contribute to the sustainable success rate of SMEs. The results obtained from this article could be adopted as SMEs’ effective time-management practices to enhance sustainable construction project delivery.Athenkosi SogaxaEric Kwame SimpehRuben NdihokubwayoUniversity of the Free Statearticleconstruction projectsleadership and sustainable successproject delayssmestime-managementsouth africaBuilding constructionTH1-9745ENActa Structilia, Vol 28, Iss 1, Pp 117-141 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	construction projects leadership and sustainable success project delays smes time-management south africa Building construction TH1-9745
spellingShingle	construction projects leadership and sustainable success project delays smes time-management south africa Building construction TH1-9745 Athenkosi Sogaxa Eric Kwame Simpeh Ruben Ndihokubwayo Assessment of time management practices of small medium sized contractors in project delivery in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
description	The purpose of this article is to assess the effective time-management practices adopted by construction SMEs to enhance successful construction project delivery. A mixed methods approach, consisting of both quantitative and qualitative research methods was adopted. A questionnaire was distributed to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) management team purposively selected from CIDB Grades 1 to 4 registered contractors under the general building category. The quantitative data were analysed, using descriptive statistics. To validate quantitative findings, semi structured interviews were conducted with randomly selected respondents who were part of the survey study where content analysis was adopted. The findings revealed that the most adopted effective time-management practices to enhance the sustainable success rate of construction SMEs in South Africa included progress meeting with consultants to ensure regular monitoring of the work progress, strategic planning to recover time lost, effective management of subcontractors, and allocation of tasks to workers according to their skills and expertise. It should be noted that the quantitative findings were consistent with the qualitative findings, and revealed that effective project planning, periodic progress meetings and labour production contribute to the sustainable success rate of SMEs. The results obtained from this article could be adopted as SMEs’ effective time-management practices to enhance sustainable construction project delivery.
format	article
author	Athenkosi Sogaxa Eric Kwame Simpeh Ruben Ndihokubwayo
author_facet	Athenkosi Sogaxa Eric Kwame Simpeh Ruben Ndihokubwayo
author_sort	Athenkosi Sogaxa
title	Assessment of time management practices of small medium sized contractors in project delivery in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
title_short	Assessment of time management practices of small medium sized contractors in project delivery in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
title_full	Assessment of time management practices of small medium sized contractors in project delivery in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
title_fullStr	Assessment of time management practices of small medium sized contractors in project delivery in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
title_full_unstemmed	Assessment of time management practices of small medium sized contractors in project delivery in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
title_sort	assessment of time management practices of small medium sized contractors in project delivery in the eastern cape province, south africa
publisher	University of the Free State
publishDate	2021
url	https://doi.org/10.18820/24150487/as28i1.5 https://doaj.org/article/6840f8e56e5f492a896f3538891b89e2
work_keys_str_mv	AT athenkosisogaxa assessmentoftimemanagementpracticesofsmallmediumsizedcontractorsinprojectdeliveryintheeasterncapeprovincesouthafrica AT erickwamesimpeh assessmentoftimemanagementpracticesofsmallmediumsizedcontractorsinprojectdeliveryintheeasterncapeprovincesouthafrica AT rubenndihokubwayo assessmentoftimemanagementpracticesofsmallmediumsizedcontractorsinprojectdeliveryintheeasterncapeprovincesouthafrica
_version_	1718385277820469248

Assessment of time management practices of small medium sized contractors in project delivery in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Ejemplares similares