PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND PERFORMANCE OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN NAIROBI CITY COUNTY, KENYA
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The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of project management practices on performance of road construction projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The study used a descriptive research design. The study population was 120 (road engineers, supervisors, inspectors, surveyors and contractors). The study targeted the completed road projects, constructions of the new and upgrading of the old roads in the study area. The study adopted a census and administered a questionnaire as the data collection tool for primary data collection. The data collection instrument was pilot tested to confirm whether it was valid and reliable for data collection before carrying out the actual study. The study intended to have both qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data was subjected to thematic analysis while descriptive and inferential analyses were used to analyze the quantitative data. The study carried out diagnostic tests before inferential analysis fit the conditions, assumptions and expected models. It was established that there existed a strong positive relationship between the project management practices and performance of road projects. The study results implied that project management practices jointly accounted for 77.20% of the performance of road projects. This implied that project management practices need to be factored to improve performance of road projects. Results revealed that all the project management practices had a positive and significant relationship with implementation of road projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya. However, the magnitude of the influence was different for the specific project management practices. The project planning had the largest effect followed by project M & E then project funding and finally the project risk management. Consequently, this study provided project managers involved in the implementation of road projects with the insights of how to improve implementation of projects through adoption of project management practices. The key recommendations were that road project managers should embrace project management practices such as project planning, project funding, project M & E and project risk management in order to realize project implementation success of the roads.
Key Words: Project Planning, Project Funding, Project Monitoring and Evaluation, Risk Management
CITATION: Mongina, C., & Moronge, M. (2021). Project management practices and performance of road construction projects in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 8 (1), 545 – 562.
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