Abstract:
Increasingly, project teams in the road construction industry are usually established as soon
as a new project start. This is done to meet today’s competition and customer expectations.
A project is said to be successful when it meets all the project objectives; time, cost, quality,
environmental considerations, and health and safety. The study aimed to assess the
determinants of road sector project teams performance in the Greater Accra and Ashanti
Regions of Ghana. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design and quantitative
research methods using survey questionnaires. One hundred and fifteen (115)
questionnaires were deployed to the construction consultants currently working on projects
and recently finished projects and fifty–seven (57) valid questionnaires were retrieved and
analysed. Relative Importance Index and factor analysis were used as tools to analyse the
data. This study found that the effective execution of the six characteristics of project team
performance (leadership style management, leader comfortability, effective planning,
gender difference, project quality assurance, and final product satisfaction) has an impact
on project performance. The study also obtained six strategies to improve road project team
performance in Ghana, these were; the high motivation of team members, high-quality
supervision, the firm establishment of member’s roles at the initiation stage, team
determination to accomplish a project on time, encouragement of high performance and
quality work, and team/individual workload. The study concluded that every effective road
project team must inherit all six project team performance characteristics. Implementation
of the six important strategies in a road project team enhances effective team members'
performance on current and future projects was also a conclusion of the study. For a
successful road project, the project team must be characterised by ‘effective leadership
style management and comfortability, effective planning, gender difference management,
project quality assurance, and final product satisfaction. Clients and consultants in the Road
Sector and the Construction Industry must ensure that project team members are highly
motivated and are supervised to enhance team performance.
