Influential Factors for Undertaking BPR on Construction Industry to Improve Contractors Performance in Tanzania

Ramadhani Said Tekka

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Influential Factors for Undertaking BPR on Construction Industry to Improve Contractors Performance in Tanzania

Ramadhani Said Tekka

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The construction business in Tanzania has been acknowledged to face an increased competition resulting from globalization. Correspondingly, the construction business has occupied incredibly & everlasting challenges flabbergasted with time & cost overrun, insignificant quality, poor safety, and ecological unsustainability leading to inadequate general performance. The challenges have compelled most construction firms to become innovative to redesign the business and adopt the change approaches. The innovation approach has established and engaged the extra efforts and a persistent follow-up to attain the practicable and worthwhile resolution. Business Process Reengineering (BPR) has been touted as a propitious strategic management practice and a management change approach for attracting, elevating the competences & efficiencies, bringing great solutions and gaining a competitive advantage for construction business dramatic improvement. An exhaustive literature review, an in-depth interview, and a descriptive quantitative research tactic were assumed for this study to gather an opinion from 202 experienced experts that helped to attain the findings. SPSS-AMOS software was applied during data analysis to obtain the descriptive, inferential statistics and a structural model as findings to support the study conclusion. However, the identified BPR factors could help provide alternative thinking of influencing undertaking BPR on the construction industry to improve construction business performance in Tanzania.

Published in	Industrial Engineering (Volume 5, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ie.20210502.12
Page(s)	34-45
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Construction Industry, Construction Management, Reengineering, Performance

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