ASSESSMENT OF ORGANISATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PRACTICE IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

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Department of Environmental Design

ABSTRACT
The Nigeria Construction Industry (NCI) is characterised as slow to innovation and lacks the capacity to deliver when juxtaposed with other developing countries with similar developmental challenges at about the 1970s; despite the industry state in Nigeria, researches have continued to suggest ways of improving service delivery in the industry. One of such ways is the massive campaigning from research and industry for the NCI to adopt concepts of Knowledge Management (KM) to improve service delivery. The aim of this study was to assess organisational leadership for the adoption of KM practice in the NCI. The objectives of the study are; to identify the attributes of leadership behaviours and KM; to establish the leadership behaviours exhibited by consulting firms in the NCI; to establish whether the consulting firms in the NCI exhibits KM; and to examine the relationship between leadership behaviours and KM. The instrument used for data collection in this study was a structured questionnaire. The instrument was administered on Senior Management Staff of consulting firms in the NCI. The number of questionnaire completed and returned were 110 which represented 45.9% of the total questionnaire administered (240). The data collected were analysed in the form of descriptive statistics to achieve the study objectives 2 and 3. However, in examining the relationship between leadership behaviours and KM two types of statistical test were employed namely; the t-test and Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. The results obtained from the analysis showed that consulting firms in the NCI agree they exhibit transformational leadership behaviours but disagree to exhibiting transactional and laissez- faire leadership behaviours. Similarly, the results also showed that the consulting firms in the NCI agree they exhibit KM behaviours. The study recommends that consulting firms on the basis of this fact can formally adopt KM practice to improve their competitiveness in the market place and the quality of their service delivery in the NCI.