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http://dx.doi.org/10.5345/JKIBC.2015.15.5.501

Influence of Organizational Culture on Performance of Building Construction Project  

An, Sung-Hoon (Department of Architectural Engineering, Daegu University)
Bitamba, Bauma Frigeant (Department of Architectural Engineering, Daegu University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction / v.15, no.5, 2015 , pp. 501-506 More about this Journal
Abstract
Construction companies want to improve the abilities of field organizations for improving the performance of construction projects. It is possible to improve the performance of construction projects by managing the field organizational culture, due to the field organizational culture is concerned with the abilities of construction field organizations. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to reveal the influence of the field organizational culture on the performance of building construction projects. The results of this study showed that field organizational cultural characteristics influence on the performance of construction projects. Best performed projects have the higher characteristics of a consensus culture and rational culture, and worst performed projects have the lower characteristics of a development culture and consensus culture. In addition, the characteristics of rational culture and hierarchy culture effect on the performance in worst performed projects. This study is expected to help to improve the performance management system in construction field organization.
Keywords
organizational culture; performance; organizational management;
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