Stakeholder Management Approach for A Successful Project Delivery : A Case of Ethiopian Construction Design and Supervision Works Corporation-Construction Sector
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2023-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This study is aimed to investigate the relationship between the stakeholder management approach/Collaborative or partnering/ and successful project delivery. The study also tried to assess the stakeholder management approach and practice in the Ethiopian Construction Design and Supervision Works Corporation- Construction/ECDSWCo - Construction. The research design adopted was descriptive research design method which includes both primary and secondary data where primary data was conducted through questioner whereas the secondary data was gathered by reviewing relevant books, articles, journals, and any other documents and publications that are available within the organization as well as other sources. The data collection used was questionnaire. The Questionnaires were distributed to employees who are currently working within the ECDSWCo construction company which is a grade one contractor. The data obtained through questionnaire was analysed quantitatively using descriptive statistics: frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation correlation and regression through SPSS version 20 software. The finding of the study revealed that successful project delivery is highly dependent on stakeholder management approach which is the collaboration method which is expressed in terms of trust, communication, commitment and mutual goal. Regarding the practice done on the assessment of the collaboration approach it is revealed that most of the employees agreed that the company is in the right way of practicing of the partnering approach with the stakeholders through the characteristics of trust, communication, commitment and mutual goals for a successful project delivery.
Key words: - Partnering, collaboration, trust, communication, commitment, mutual goal, stake holders, stakeholder management