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A Model to Investigate the Effect of Work Ethic Culture on Dynamics of Rework in Management of Projects

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  • Hossein Kiani

    (Islamic Azad University (South Tehran Branch), School of Industrial Engineering, Tehran, Iran)

  • Seyed Hossein Hosseini

    (Model-based Management Systems Engineering Institute (SAMAM), Tehran, Iran)

  • Farshid Abdi

    (Islamic Azad University (South Tehran Branch), School of Industrial Engineering, Tehran, Iran)

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the effect of work ethic culture on rework in construction projects through a review of literature, surveys, and interviews with project managers. The main research question is what mechanisms can project manager use to balance the costs of personnel training, financial and language incentives, and implementation costs to finish the project with more profit and less rework. In this regard, modelling and data analysis is done using System Dynamics methodology. The results show that by considering work ethic, rework in the project is reduced from 46 % to 39 %. However, the project has been completed with 10 % lower cost and 26 % lower variance. Integrating the issue of rework with the culture of work ethic in the field of project management by at least one exogenous parameter has been studied, while in this study qualitative parameters have been converted to quantitative parameters using fuzzy inference system. The change in management approach to the issue of work ethics and the formulation of human resource strategies of large projects by human resource managers is one of the applications of this study.

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  • Hossein Kiani & Seyed Hossein Hosseini & Farshid Abdi, 2018. "A Model to Investigate the Effect of Work Ethic Culture on Dynamics of Rework in Management of Projects," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 16(1), pages 40-59.
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    Keywords

    work ethic; system dynamics; rework; project management; construction;
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    JEL classification:

    • C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
    • M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
    • O22 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Project Analysis

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