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Construction Industry Conflict Analysis

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Construction industry is a complex and competitive environment in which the participants have different opinions, skill and level of knowledge of the construction process work together. Different professional parties’ working together in a complex environment and each of them has their own goals and supposes to make the most of its own benefits. Therefore, the conflict may occur in construction industry, since there are different views among the participant of the project. Example of construction conflict are the poor management by the client and contractor, poor financial strength on the part of the client, contractor or sub-contractor, error in the specification and the differing site condition from those described in contractor document …show more content…

This shown that the Project Delivery Partner (PDP) should request for tender soon. Therefore, failure from PDP to attain the tender wills lead to conflict.
Besides, there also a case that happened in Miri, Sarawak which the country authorities commend to demolish labourers homestay and this group of labour are from construction industry (Jofri, 2015). This group of labour is force to move to other place. From this case, it can see that the labours are dissatisfied with the authorities and this cause the conflict to occur.
Moreover, the case that happened in Sibu, Sarawak construction industry is the fighting case between the construction workers. There are more than fifty policeman personnel rushed to the construction site and there are around forty workers involved has been arrested for investigation (Borneo Post, 2014). From this case, it highlights the importance to solve the conflict with alternative method and the way to prevent the conflict to …show more content…

In similar vein, Gardiner & Simmons (1992) defined conflict as any disagreement of interest, objective or priorities between the parties in construction industry. From those various definitions of conflict, it has proof that the conflicts are always a part of occurrence in construction industry. Hence, it is important to conduct the study of cause of conflict in construction industry.
1.8 Significant of Study
This study was conducted to bring benefit to the contractor, consultant, and client. The conflict issues can also be studied in more specific way. At the same time, participants in construction should have a pure image of conflict when handled with conflict issues in construction industry.
Generally, the specific of conflict are linked to the time, cost, quality and safety in construction, which enable the parties in construction industry to have a better understanding about the construction conflict and discovered the best way to solve it or manage the conflict (Fenn & Gameson 1991; Kumaraswany, 1998). The importance of this study is to provide the method for the participants in construction to manage the construction conflict. Therefore, some of witnessed is needed and limitation from the past researched, so the need of upcoming research

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