The Role of Human Resource Management in Construction Project Success in Case of Jimma-Agaro Didesa Road Construction Projects

Abstract

simple filing, housekeeping and record keeping. When HRM strategies are integrated within the organization, human resource management (HRM) is holding an important role in ensuring that an organization to move forward and prosper. Construction is one of the most labor-intensive industries. Hence, effective human resource management (HRM) is very crucial to guide a construction project towards success. Therefore, this study is conducted to investigate the role of Human Resource Management (HRM) towards project success. The three main areas have been studied in this research (1) The important activities of HRM in construction project success (2) The major HRM challenges (3) The critical success factor of HRM. The scope of the research would involve personnel in the Jimma-Agaro Dhidhesa Road Construction and it covers three main parties which is contractors, consultant and developers. Simple random sampling was used to select sample respondents. In this type of sampling method every member of the population has equal chance of being selected. The nature of this research would in quantitative manner. The questionnaires distribute to 80 respondents. Relative Importance Index (RII) was used to perform on the data collected to describe the basic features of the data. The questionnaires were distributed to 80 persons and response received from 62 of the. From those: 20 from contractors (32.25 %), 18 from consultants (29.03 %) and 24 from developers (38.70%). The response rate was 62 (77.5%). Relative Importance Index (RII) was used to analyses the results. From the result, it showed that Reward strategies are the most important activities in HRM. As reward strategies include salary increment, incentives etc., all these factors could motivate all the employees so that they will stay in the same organization for long time. Employee retention is the most challenging in HRM, as employee tends to look up for better offer in term of pay and benefits from other organization. Support from top management is the most critical factor in HRM, as top management has the right to determine the direction and policies of the organization hence affect the implementation of HRM. In future research, motivation theory of HRM should be emphasized such as Maslow hierarchies of needs. Needs aren't always hierarchical "People who are hungry or homeless can still be powerfully motivated by the need for respect or love," says Daramu. "There are high rates of homelessness and food insecurity among college students, but they still continue going to class and doing the best that they can. Parents might choose to go hungry if they need to feed their children, putting love above their own physiological well-being." This could be very useful for future research and to insure the needs of human being were not have hierarchy.