| dc.description.abstract | The main objective of the study was to investigate the effect of material management on project
performance in the case of selected building construction companies in Adama. Quantitative
approach was applied in this study. Exploratory research design was used to investigate the effect
of the independent variables such as; project planning, purchasing, transportation and storage on
the overall project performance. Only permanent employees of the selected building construction
companies were considered as a study population. Out of 2,187active permanent employees who
have currently been engaged in the companies, a sample of 338 respondents were selected through
convenience non-probability sampling technique. A total of 296 valid and usable primary date was
collected from this sample respondents through a self-administered questionnaire. Both descriptive
and inferential statistics were adopted with the help of SPSS 21.0. The findings of the study
indicated that all the independent variables (project planning, purchasing, transportation and
storage) were found to have significant effect on project success. Project Planning dimension (β =
.450) has relatively the highest effect followed by Project performance (β = .361). But Material
transportation (β = .223) and Material Storage (β = .176) have relatively lower contributions to the
prediction model. It can be concluded that for employees of some selected building construction
companies, these factors are important in assessing overall material management for the success of
their specific projects. | en_US |
