Construction project team’s competencies influencing contractor business competencies

Abstract

Consistent arrangement of contractor business competencies and project team’s competencies helps improve project operation efficiency. Key participants in the project team are project managers, engineers, and technicians. However, a review of existing literature reveals a lack of research on the causal relationship between project teams’ competencies and business competencies. Therefore, this study attempted to identify the relationship through survey contractors’ opinions. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results suggest the regression weighs presented in parenthesis that business competencies are influenced by the competencies of a project manager (0.50) and engineer (0.49). The study also discovered the influence of competencies among project teams; that is, technician competencies influence engineer competencies (0.87), and engineer competencies influence project manager competencies (0.55). With the causal relationship between the project team’s competencies and business competencies, contractors can suitably allocate human resources for increasing their project operation efficiency.