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Enhancing the performance of architectural design firms through addressing the gap of workforce skills in developing countries: a good-to-great approach

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  • Ezzat Othman Ayman Ahmed
  • Sokkar Dana Ashraf

    (Architectural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, The British University in Egypt (BUE), El Shorouk City, Cairo Suez Desert Road, Postal No. 11837, P.O. Box 43,Cairo Suez, Egypt)

Abstract

The aim of this research is to investigate the role of the good-to-great concept as an approach for enhanc­ing the performance of architectural design firms (ADFs) through addressing the gap of workforce skills in develop­ing countries. To achieve this aim, a research methodology was designed to accomplish four objectives: (1) building a comprehensive background about the topic through cov­ering the nature of the construction industry, gap of work­force skills, previous approaches used to address this issue and the good-to-great concept; (2) presenting and analyz­ing two case studies to investigate the role of the good-to-great concept as an approach to fill the gap of workforce skills in organizations; (3) investigating the perception and application of the good-to-great concept for addressing the gap of workforce skills to enhance the performance of ADFs and (4) developing a framework to enhance the per­formance of ADFs through bridging the gap of workforce skills in ADFs using the good-to-great concept. Findings of this research showed that the issue of gap of workforce skills threatens all types of industries including construc­tion industry. The demand of ADFs became greater than the supply of skilled employees which indicates a critical issue encountered by these firms. Thus, the good-to-great concept that has never been adopted in ADFs before is pro­posed as a novel approach to tackle this issue.

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  • Ezzat Othman Ayman Ahmed & Sokkar Dana Ashraf, 2019. "Enhancing the performance of architectural design firms through addressing the gap of workforce skills in developing countries: a good-to-great approach," Organization, Technology and Management in Construction, Sciendo, vol. 11(1), pages 1911-1924, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:otamic:v:11:y:2019:i:1:p:1911-1924:n:4
    DOI: 10.2478/otmcj-2018-0016
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