An Assessment of Social Responsibility (SR) Practices The Case of Public Construction Project Organization in Arada Sub-City
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2017-05
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study is to assess the SR practices of the project organization/Construction office in Arada Sub-city in undertaking public construction project works. Purposive and stratified sampling method was used to select 88 respondents from the project organization, client organizations, and woreda level public mobilization development offices and from the recently active public construction project site works. The study applied descriptive study design and used survey questions, semi-structured interviews and direct observation of project site works as an instrument for data collection. The data gathered were categorized in to their respective six sub-topics and coded in the SPSS program, tabulated, and the frequency counts were changed in to percentages for analyzing the data. Using a mixed-method review under this study; the findings present that even if the uptake of SR has increased across different project personnel’s from time to time, employees in the Project organization which are committed to social responsibility operations uses the language of SR in a limited way in their working activities and these personnel’s that uses the language of SR are insignificantly committed to the principle of it. Evidences of the study show that the project organization implements principles, plans, and courses of actions in the varieties of public construction project operations without considering/realizing the importance of SR or provide a response which does not address social problems and the need of the society. The study also identified a number of SR practices which contributes to the development of negative perceptions towards the operations of the project organization in the society/community. As a result, keeping good relationship with the necessary stakeholders, developing and cultivating socially responsible practices, being flexible to accommodate construction innovations and adopt new way of doing project operations, strategically creating good learning environment and continuously monitoring and providing feedback are the main points from others given as a recommendation for the project organization to reduce its negative impacts and provide even greater benefit to further future development
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Project Organization, Social Responsibility, Public Projects