Factors Influencing Quantity Surveying Services Performance in Nigeria

Abstract

Quantity surveying profession is faced with great challengesconcerning recognition and survival in Nigeria. Usually, thiscould be overcome by being proactive in dealing with factors that could influence theirservices performance. Quiet numbers of factors are affecting the performance of quantitysurveying firms in Nigeria; which makes their survival to be a matter of concern to theresearchers. Therefore, this paper evaluated the extent to which the performance of quantitysurveying firms is being influenced by internal and environmental factors with a view toincreasing the recognition and survival of the firm in the competitive business environment.Employee quantity surveyors assessed internal factors while employers of quantity surveyingfirms assessed external factors. One hundred and thirty-one (131) respondents comprisingeighty-five (85) employees and forty-six (46) employers of registered quantity surveying firmswere sampled randomly. Data were collected through administration of questionnaire oninfluencing factors; the collected data were subjected to mean analysis and analysis ofvariance (ANOVA). The findings showed that lack of recognition of the employees by themanagement influenced the performance of employees mostly; the employees agreed on theinfluence of this factor on the overall performance of firm. On external factors, findingsrevealed that technological changes and tough competition have high level of influence onthe performance of quantity surveying firms in the built environment. In addition, theemployers have similar view on the influence of these factors @ p>0.05. The study concludedthat lack of recognizing the employees by the firm, technological changes and toughcompetition influenced the performance of quantity surveying services in Nigeria; thesefactors had affected the recognition of quantity surveying profession in the competitiveenvironment. Therefore, the factors should be given adequate and prompt consideration so asto minimize their adverse effects on the survival of Quantity Surveying Firms in Nigeria.
 Keyword: Employee Quantity Surveyors, Employers, Quantity Surveying Firms, ServicesPerformance, Influencing Factors.