Leadership Behavior of Project Managers in Sustainable Construction Projects

Tabassi, Amin Akhavan; Argyropoulou, Maria; Roufechaei, Kamand M.; Argyropoulou, Rachel

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2016.09.217

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“…Previous studies have claimed that sustainability issues play a significant role in attaining green project management [5][6][7][8][9]. Nevertheless, considering the construction industry in developing countries like Malaysia, strength in terms of sustainability has not yet reached an adequate level as challenges of sustainable construction and development are not really being dealt with [10]. This was concluded by [11,12] that Project Managers (PM) are important "change agents" in organizations that have a strong influence on the sustainability of organizations to reduce the impact on the environment.…”

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Certification for Green Project Managers (GPM) in the Malaysian Construction Industry: Analysis of Success Factors

2019

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Since the 19th century, the sustainability concept has grown rapidly especially in terms of recognition and the issues of achieving it have been addressed by the construction players. The Construction Industry Transformation Plan (CITP) aims by the year 2020 to develop the Malaysian construction industry into an environmentally sustainable construction industry to a point that it can eventually be rolled out as a model to the emerging world. In order to achieve it, the Project Manager’s involvement is important when confronting sustainable issues. Therefore, Malaysia has launched its first National Green Project Managers (GPM) Awards in 2015. Although it has been two years, the promotion of certification of GPM is still lacking. Hence, the aim of this paper is to determine the success factors of promoting certified GPM in the Malaysian construction industry. Using a questionnaire survey of 30 respondents, comprising of Project Directors, General Managers and Project Managers, this research focuses on three (3) objectives which are to : (a) explore the need of certified GPM; (b) identify the limitations of promoting certified GPM; (c) establish the success factors of promoting certified GPM in Malaysian construction projects. From the analysis using SPSS, this research discovered the top reason GPMs are needed in the construction industry is because of the responsibilities of GPMs to ensure successful delivery of green development goals. However, there are a number of barriers to promoting certified GPM, which include limited training for Project Managers that touch on sustainability elements. To date, a private sector organization, known as Bridgit, is the sole provider of specific training in GPM in Malaysia. Therefore, training for Project Managers is important to provide them with the necessary skill and knowledge towards becoming certified GPM and turn to achieve as a true success factor. Finally, the outcome of this research will become a baseline to promote certification of GPM in the future.

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Certification for Green Project Managers (GPM) in the Malaysian Construction Industry: Analysis of Success Factors

2019

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“…The first is to assemble teams made up of people from different areas that need to perform specific tasks in projects, which may or may not be related to the activities of their normal functions in their rol (Morrison & Brown, 2004). And the second implication is that the people who make these teams require specific competences of project management (PMI, 2013), resources and authority to make decisions (Tabassi, Argyropolou, Roufechaei, & Argyropolou, 2016;Thamhain, 2004), which will enable them to achieve the objectives in projects.…”

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Designing an Organizational Culture Model in the Projects Environment: a Constructivist Approach

Aguilera

2018

CES Psico

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“…Sources/References Visionary [6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21] Effective Planning and Goal Setting [8,9,11,22,17,23,24,25] Critical Analysis skills [14,15,18,20,21] Problem Solver [6,8,14,17,20,22,24,26,27,28] Technical ability [12,16,17,19,29] Initiative of doing things [8,15,16,18,18,26] Create strategies [14,15,…”

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Significant Leadership Qualities for Saudi Arabia Construction Leaders

Rahman

Al-Emad

2018

MATEC Web Conf.

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Construction industry involves diverse individuals and organizations which are all targeted to achieve a specific task within a specific time. It really needs strong leadership quality of construction leaders in managing construction projects successfully. Hence, this paper presents a study to uncover leadership qualities which should be possessed by construction leaders to ensure the success of the construction project. A survey was designed based on literature review and also the outcomes of qualitative exploratory study. It was conducted using a semi-structured questionnaire distributed amongst selected construction experts in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The selected experts should have more than 10 years’ working experience in Saudi Arabia construction industry. The survey managed to collect 31 valid responses. The collected data was analysed using Average Index (AI) method to rank the qualities based on the significant level of each of the leadership quality. It was found that 10 most significant leadership qualities required by construction leaders are self-confident, problem solving skills, willingness to take responsibility, honest and trustworthy, respectful with subordinates, sufficient experience, integrity, effective management skills, continuous quality improvement and reliable with subordinates. These identified significant leadership qualities should be considered by construction stakeholders in hiring new employees or retraining their existing workers for Saudi Arabia construction industry.

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Leadership Behavior of Project Managers in Sustainable Construction Projects

Cited by 28 publications

References 16 publications

Certification for Green Project Managers (GPM) in the Malaysian Construction Industry: Analysis of Success Factors

Certification for Green Project Managers (GPM) in the Malaysian Construction Industry: Analysis of Success Factors

Designing an Organizational Culture Model in the Projects Environment: a Constructivist Approach

Significant Leadership Qualities for Saudi Arabia Construction Leaders

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