Browsing by Author "Adinyira, Emmanuel"

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    A Conceptual Framework of Knowledge Transfer from The Construction Company To the Host Community
    (10th cidb Postgraduate Conference, 2018-02-25) Williams, Justice; Fugar, Frank Desmond Kofi; Adinyira, Emmanuel
    Knowledge transfer and management in organizations throughout the world is a competitive advantage. It is what the organization knows, how it uses what it knows and how fast it can discover something new, be it in acquisition of technology for innovation, or business activities development, studies have been undertaken in this area to examine knowledge transfer and management process in the organisation. But little is known about the effectiveness of knowledge transfer by construction companies to the project host communities. Therefore, this paper builds on existing concepts of knowledge transfer and diffusion of new ideas and offers a conceptual framework of knowledge transfer and its diffusion from the construction industry to the project host community. The conceptual framework identifies stages of Knowledge conversion and diffusion and factors that are expected to enable the transfer process at different stages. The framework also shows the inter-relation between Knowledge transfer and diffusion by combining the theory of Nonaka & Takeuchi on knowledge creation and shearing with Everett Rogers’s innovation decision theory. This has been achieved by first, reviewing and discussing theories relating to diffusion of new idea (NI) and knowledge transfer (KT). Secondly, the paper evaluates the interrelation between knowledge transfer and diffusion of new ideas. Thirdly, it establishes a connection between knowledge transfer and diffusion of new ideas. Finally, it brings the latter in the context of construction industry. This paper has demonstrated that a construction firm that is able to create and improve its Knowledge base and transfer such new Knowledge to the community in which it finds itself, would have much collaboration and a peaceful atmosphere to carry out its corporate goals or complete its project within schedule.
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    An Exploratory Study into Promoting Construction Health and Safety in Ghana Through Public Works Procurement
    (CIB W099, 2015-09-10) Donkoh, Dorothy; Adinyira, Emmanuel; Aboagye-Nimo, Emmanuel
    The construction industry is commonly associated with high or increasing levels of workrelated hazards with ensuing injuries and fatalities. Studies have shown that procurement can further promote good construction H&S practice as it occurs throughout the life cycle of a project. However, the use of procurement as an instrument to promote H&S practices in construction has received little attention till date especially in developing countries. For this reason, the research aimed to explore practical measures to improve construction H&S through public works procurement in Ghana. Qualitative data was collected through semistructured interviews. Seven respondents (procurement managers, consultants and Quantity surveyors), selected through a non-probabilistic purpose sampling from public institutions participated in the survey. In Ghana, the Public Procurement Act, Act 663 which was introduced in 2003 to ensure sanity and value for money in public procurement provides guidelines for the procurement of public works. In view of this, a case study of the H&S management of project procured using the Act 663 was also carried out. This was done to ascertain how public works is carried out in the Ghanaian public sector setting by determining the various stakeholders involved, the processes the project underwent and the various considerations looked at especially under H&S. The results however indicated that the Act 663 has no clause that addresses construction H&S. The paper also finds that, H&S does not form part of the criteria for evaluating tenders. To address the constraints so as to improve upon construction H&S, certain recommendations are offered. These include the inclusion of nonambiguous H&S requirements as criteria for evaluating tenders and the pricing of H&S items in bills of quantities. Additionally, practical measures to improving construction H&S in Ghana at the key stages of works procurement are also provided. It also includes the specific roles and involvements of other stakeholders in the procurement process.