Project Management Practices and Implementation of Construction Projects in Public Secondary Schools in Nairobi City County, Kenya
| dc.contributor.author | Nke, Osckin Wenceslas Gankoue | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-03-27T09:52:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-03-27T09:52:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-08 | |
| dc.description | A Research Project Submitted to the School of Business, Economics and Tourism in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Award of the Degree of Masters of Business Administration (Project Management) of Kenyatta University, August 2024. Supervisor Joshua Tumuti | |
| dc.description.abstract | The implementation of construction projects heavily relies on the application of project management practices but there has been under utilization of project planning, risk management, stakeholder involvement plus monitoring and evaluation. Nonetheless, the existence of excessively delayed and over-budget projects serves as significant indications of insufficient project application. Management practices, alongside other challenges, are prevalent throughout the implementation phase of school construction projects. The initial understanding of the problem revealed that there was no enough emphasis on the application of proper project management practices. This consequently affected the implementation of school construction projects such as dormitories, libraries, halls, offices, classrooms and laboratories in public secondary schools in Nairobi, Kenya. This research sought to examine the influence of project management practices on the implementation of construction projects in the public secondary schools within Nairobi City County, Kenya. In particular, the extent to which project planning, risk management, stakeholder involvement and ME practices influence the implementation of construction projects. This investigation was grounded in project theory as the core theory for the study. The study adopted a descriptive research design. A census technique was used to consider the total population of 49 overrun public secondary schools’ construction projects in Nairobi County. The researcher used structured and unstructured questions to collect data from 196 respondents including school principals, BOMs chairpersons, PTAs chairpersons, and teachers. The respondents received the questionnaires, which they filled out and then picked up later, diagnostic test and pilot test were carried out to determine the research validity. Whereas the Diagnostic Test was utilized to test of normality, multicollinear and homoscedasticity through the use of Shapiro-Wilk test, Variance Inflation Factor, and levene’s test; Pilot Testing on the other hand, was done using the test-retest reliability techniques on a small group of 10 respondents from two overrun construction projects executed in public secondary schools located in Kiambu County. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was used in obtaining the correlation coefficient of the test scores and the threshold values from 0.59 and above was considered acceptable for the reliability. SPSS version 23.0 and Excel software were utilized in entering data. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed to analyse the data. Multiple linear regression was also utilized for modelling. Utilizing content analysis, qualitative data was examined. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse quantitative data. The findings demonstrated that risk management and project planning, stakeholder involvement and monitoring and evaluation practices had a significant impact on the successful delivery of school construction projects. The study concluded that effective implementation of school construction projects is mainly facilitated by the application of planning, risk management, stakeholder involvement and monitoring and evaluation practices. Project planning was recommended as the initial step in order to determine and guarantee the availability of resources and to create a schedule for timely and cost-effective project implementation. It is also recommended that particular attention be paid to risk management to avoid wasting resources and time, and that drastic measures be taken to either mitigate or minimise any risks that may arise during implementation. In order for stakeholders to take ownership of the project and encourage the success of the implementation process, it is recommended that they be involved at every stage of the project. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Kenyatta University | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/29860 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Kenyatta University | |
| dc.title | Project Management Practices and Implementation of Construction Projects in Public Secondary Schools in Nairobi City County, Kenya | |
| dc.type | Thesis |