Abstract: The construction industry is one of the most important industries for the development of infrastructure and economy of a Nation. It is therefore important that adequate measures are put in place to ensure quality in the sector. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of stakeholder involvement factor on quality of projects in Nakuru County, Kenya. Main aim of this study was to find out the factors that affect project quality in building construction projects in Nakuru County. The instrument of data collection was questionnaires. The target population consisted of 32 construction companies in Nakuru. The unit of analysis was ongoing and completed projects implemented by the construction companies. The target population was 147 project implementation teams consisting of Project engineers, project managers and project contractors in each of the 32 companies selected through random stratified sampling and thus the study had a total of 96 who formed the sample size out of which 87 respondents returned the questionnaires representing 84% response rate. Analysis of data was done using descriptive and inferential statistics. Under stakeholder involvement , stages and methods of involvement had a strong and significant positive relationship (r = 0.844, p < 0.05) with project quality. This showed that that the variations around the means in stakeholder involvement are about 84%. The overall regression model gave R2 of 0.102. This showed that that the variations around the means in stakeholedr involvement factor is about 10%.
Keywords: Nakuru County, Construction, stakeholder involvement and project quality.
Title: The Effect of Stakeholder Involvement Factors on Project Quality among Housing Construction in Nakuru County, Kenya
Author: Karen. A. Shipuku, Shadrack Mbithi
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
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