Challenges of conflict in construction industries in Minna Metropolis

Abstract

The study is designed to investigate the Challenges pose by Conflict in Construction Industries in Minna Metropolis. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated and used to guide the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The study was conducted in construction industries in Minna Metropolis. The target population for the study was 60 respondents consisting of 21 contactors and 39 site managers from twenty-one functional construction industry in Minna Metropolis as of the time of the study. The instrument used for data collection was structured questionnaire developed by the researcher and validated by three experts in building technology option from the Department of Industrial and Technology Education, Federal University of Technology, Minna. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha which obtained to be 0.75. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions and t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study it was revealed increase in the cost of projects, delays and abandonment of project among others are management challenges pose by conflicts in the construction industries in Minna Metropolis, while under-utilization of man-power, loss of building materials and equipment among others are the workers productivity challenges pose by conflicts in the construction industries in Minna Metropolis. based on the findings it was recommended that construction industries should ensure adequate management planning in order to tackle some of the foreseen challenges of conflict promptly towards continue working in cordial relationship among workers in spite dispute on the cause of executing site work and stakeholders in construction industry should device a procedures and approach by meeting with workers regularly in other to sensitize them on the need to leave in harmony for reducing the rate of conflict and improving labor productivity in construction industry.