A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT COMPLETION RATE IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT: This study was carried out on a critical evaluation of organizational culture and its impact on construction project completion rate in Nigeria using Malcolm Associates Construction Companies Minna, Niger State as case study. To achieve this 4 research questions were formulated.  The survey design was adopted and the simple random sampling techniques were employed in this study. The population size comprise of the entire staffs of Malcolm Associates Construction Companies Minna, Niger State Nigeria. In determining the sample size, the researcher purposively selected 65 respondents while 50 respondents were validated. Self-constructed and validated questionnaire was used for data collection. The collected and validated questionnaires were analyzed using four Likert scale of  Strongly Agreed(SA), Agreed(A), Strongly Disagree(SD) and Disagree(D) with frequency tables and percentage. The result of the findings reveals that; Organizational culture is immensely significant in construction and non construction organizations; Organizational culture determinants such as empowerment have a humongous significant impact on project construction success; Consistent project completion success is based on the organizational culture embraced by construction organizations; The commitment relationship between various workers towards the target of project completion is influenced by organization's cultural orientation and to mention only but a few. Based on the above findings, the researcher recommended that, having discovered that the significance of organizational culture can not be over emphasized and the nature of project tasks performed by construction organizations are inter-dependently accomplished, it is therefore advisable that construction organizations like any other cooperate organization should strengthen and bond their organizational culture with employees through top or senior officers relating to other staffs not just based on leadership skills but also by operating on the bases of cultural orientation. Hence this will help to compel employees to operate on the same bases.