Internal assessment of organizational management practices for small to medium size general contractors in Atlantic Canada
Loading...
Files
Date
2015
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
University of New Brunswick
Abstract
Benchmarking and organizational assessment m the Canadian construction
industry are relatively well known concepts but are not applied as often as they should be.
When applied at the organizational level, these principles can provide valuable insight
into the state of management practices within an enterprise. Once key practices are
assessed, results can be further analyzed and deficient areas can be reviewed for impact
on organizational performance. The end objective in this process is for companies to
determine which practices are most important and to focus on improving these practices
moving forward. The barrier in this process is that organizations currently lack the ability
to assess and in turn evaluate the results in a meaningful manner. This report
demonstrates how a defined assessment tool can be used to collect data. Once collected
this information can be used to evaluate management practices and can further be used to
determine risk exposure given a set of project parameters. To demonstrate the suggested
concepts, a sample organization is surveyed and a case study project is presented. The
results demonstrate that any firm can use a defined assessment tool and apply basic risk
management principles to facilitate overall organizational improvement.