Re-strengthening the Adoption of Outsourcing Concept in Construction Firms: Issues and Challenges
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Outsourcing is a concept that has gained ground instead of the dynamic nature of
materials and construction resources over time, there is still yearning for resource augmentation,
thus the need for this study. The course's primary aim is to study issues and challenges of
outsourcing in construction firms with a view to enhancing materials and human resources usage.
The survey research method was used in researching. In contrast, the random sampling method
was used by the authors in the sample selection. The population sample for the study is infinite
since while the Cohran formula was used to generate the sample size of 100. The authors used
one hundred (100) samples for the study with questionnaire designed the Likert scale 1-5. The
following parameters were censored and profiled. They include: understanding the current state
of outsourcing in the construction sector, scope, and coverage of outsourcing, and the
relationship between outsourcing strategy and performance helps examine the prospective areas
that would warrant outsourcing and the possible outsourcing framework—the tools used in
processing the data; relative mean, simple percentage, mean index. Some of the findings of the
study include among other things: challenges that firms encounter in outsourcing their activities
from the responses that the main challenges that the bank faced in outsourcing its included
increase in cost and loss of managerial control over outsourced operations, the effect on the
quality of operations of the firms, security and confidentially, and relocation of existing
employees. The study recommends effective training of personnel, introduction of incentives
and motivation factors in enhancing employees’ performance as a way out of challenges that
confronts outsourcing. Also, casual labouring system should be abolished since it is
counterproductive in conventional production environment.
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TH Building construction