Influence of Organizational Characteristics on Construction Project Performance Using Corporate Social Networks

Castillo, Tito; Alarcón, Luís F.; Pellicer, Eugenio

doi:10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000612

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“…Other studies have gone further and investigated the effect of personal factors on performance. Such factors include personal confidence (Castillo et al, 2018), job satisfaction (Wang et al, 2020), self-organizing and sense-making properties (Sprauer et al, 2016). Personality and psychological constructs and their effects on teams and organisations have been studied in relation to retention processes (Childs et al, 2017), turnover intention (Wang et al, 2020), commitment (Chih, 2017), satisfaction and trust (Chow et al, 2015), and culture and climate (Domingues Quelhas et al, 2019).…”

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Does Compatibility of Personality Affect Productivity? Exploratory Study with Construction Crews

2020

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Crew productivity is a function of how efficiently labor is utilized in the construction process. However, previous research in construction has not comprehensively investigated the relationship between personality and crew productivity. This paper uses personality profiles to investigate a new fundamental concept, the relationship between compatibility of personality and crew productivity at the task level. Twenty-eight masons completed a revised questionnaire of the big five to indicate their personality. Personality scores were used to calculate compatibility in each of the 20 participating two-mason crews working on eight projects. Regression analysis was performed to establish the relationship between compatibility and crew productivity. Results show that that there is a high positive correlation between compatibility and crew productivity. Compatibility accounts for more than half of the predictable variance in productivity. This paper makes four major contributions: it proposes a new metric to measure compatibility of personality among workers in a crew; it reveals how personality factors affect productivity; it provides rigorous methods to analyse correlations (using confidence intervals and Bayesian inference) for construction experiments; and it provides theoretical contributions to advancing the theory of personality and productivity in construction projects.

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Does Compatibility of Personality Affect Productivity? Exploratory Study with Construction Crews

2020

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“…However, such ties may be prone to involving a person's activities. Future research can be devoted to combining reports by multiple representative persons to determine organizational ties [115]. Interestingly, Table 7 also shows that, compared with interproject level research, intraproject level studies paid more attention to data triangulation (mixed sources accounted for 18.92% and 35.71% in Categories I and III, resp.…”

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Towards Complexity and Dynamics: A Bibliometric-Qualitative Review of Network Research in Construction

Cao

Shao

2020

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Social network analysis (SNA) has gained increasing academic attention in the construction domain over the past two decades due to its capability to characterize the complexity and dynamics of interindividual and interorganizational interactions. To date, however, scant attempt has been made to develop an integrated framework to systematically review the diversified network research at different levels in this domain and to quantitatively characterize the evolution of related research interests and research instruments. This study aims to fill this gap by conducting a bibliometric-qualitative review based on 106 papers published from 1997 to 2020. Keyword cooccurrence analysis is employed to reveal the research foci, identify the research trends, and develop a comprehensive categorization framework, which classifies related research based on two interrelated dimensions: the type of network node (individual and organization) and the levelof network analysis (project level, corporate level, and industry level). The framework then facilitates further content analysis in terms of research topics, research designs, and research instruments. The results provide evidence that the research foci in this domain are generally moving towards addressing the complexity and dynamics of project-related relations at more diversified levels, in terms of not only research topics but also research instruments. Future research can be enriched by investigating the multiple types of dynamic interproject relationships, adopting state-of-the-art methodologies for network data collection and triangulation, and employing multiple SNA constructs and inferential statistical methods to reveal how complex networks coevolve and interact with actors’ behaviors as well as project and organizational outcomes.

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“…A number of studies in construction have identified personal characteristics in crews that contribute to performance such as cohesion, motivation, affection, cooperation, and trust [3,4,5,14,15]. Other studies have gone further and investigated the effect of personal factors on performance such as personal confidence, job satisfaction, and self-organizing [16,17,18]. The effects of personality on teams and organizations have been studied for evaluating commitment, job satisfaction, attitude, and retention [3,19,20].…”

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Compatibility of Personality and Productivity: An Analysis of the Relationship with Construction Crews

Flórez¹,

Armstrong²,

Cortissoz³

2020

Proceedings of the Creative Construction E-Conference 2020

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The labor productivity of a crew depends on how efficiently workers are used in the construction process. Skills, capabilities, resources, and even personality affect the efficiency of the workers and may have an impact on the productivity of their crew. This paper illustrates how the personality profiles of the workers in a crew can be used to determine the relationship between compatibility of personality and productivity. Masons working in eight live construction projects completed the big five of personality to indicate their personality traits. Based on the personality traits, the compatibility of the crews was calculated. Productivity at the task-level was measured to determine the performance of the crews. Various statistical analyses are performed to establish the relationship between compatibility and crew productivity and the true value of the coefficient (and its likeliness). The results indicate that there is a high positive correlation between compatibility of personality and productivity at the task-level (= 0.758). Results also indicate that in the worst case scenario, there is a moderate correlation between compatibility and productivity (> 0.3; probability: 0.728). The implications of the relationship for managing crews in construction projects is discussed.

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Influence of Organizational Characteristics on Construction Project Performance Using Corporate Social Networks

Cited by 40 publications

References 45 publications

Does Compatibility of Personality Affect Productivity? Exploratory Study with Construction Crews

Does Compatibility of Personality Affect Productivity? Exploratory Study with Construction Crews

Towards Complexity and Dynamics: A Bibliometric-Qualitative Review of Network Research in Construction

Compatibility of Personality and Productivity: An Analysis of the Relationship with Construction Crews

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