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    Assessment of Leadership Practice in Construction Projects: A Case of Ethiopian Construction Design and Supervision Works Corporation
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-06-15) Negash, Endale; Atara, Adane(PhD)
    In today’s world of dynamic and multitasking development, leadership has a pivotal role for any organization to succeed and it is much more important to the construction industry. The significance of effective leadership is given very little attention in the construction industry projects. The basic anecdote I noticed when passing through past researches is that there is insufficiency of leadership curriculum in the current Ethiopian higher institutions for engineering students while leaders of construction projects are still selected from those disciplines. This paper aims to assess the leadership practice in building construction projects in case of Ethiopian Construction Design and Supervision Works Corporation. This company is the best representative of the industry since it is regarded as the largest and most experienced of the engineering consulting firms in Ethiopia. The paper assesses the crucial attributes of transactional and transformational leadership styles practiced by the leaders of construction projects together with the challenges of their practicality. More emphasis is given on determining which crucial attributes from both styles are practiced most and which ones are practiced less. Twelve ongoing projects undertaken in the company involving more than one-hundred million Ethiopian birr are selected for this study. Data is gathered from 80 respondents comprised of project managers, construction supervisors, top level managers and project team members. This study adopts descriptive type of design to answer the objective of the research. It uses both qualitative and quantitative methods. Data is gathered both from primary and secondary sources. Primary data gathered from questionnaires, interviews and closed ended questions and Secondary data gathered from the case company documents, files, archives etc. The study found out that no single leadership style stood out to be highly practiced rather a number of attributes from each style were practiced and some crucial attributes from those leadership styles are rarely practiced in the industry. Generally, this research endeavor is keen to reach at vital leadership attributes being practiced and being missed in the industry and contribute to the effective leadership of the construction industry.