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- Title
Analyzing Generic Competency Required by Malaysian Contractors from Malaysian Construction Management Graduates using the Rasch Measurement Model.
- Authors
Haryanti, M. A.; Khairil Hizar, M. K.; Latif, Adibah Abdul; Mohd Firdaus, M. K.
- Abstract
This study aimed to investigate construction management graduate's generic skills competency required by Malaysian contractors for entry-level construction managers. This study employed a questionnaire survey, and data were collected using a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire. The instrument adopted 75 items from the Association of Project Management and the Project Management Institute generic skills competency to measure industry requirements. A total of 94 construction practitioners representing contractors (grade 5 to 7) in the Klang Valley participated in this study. The Rasch Measurement Model was used to analyse the items and respondent's reliability, the items and respondent's separation index, the item's fit, the levels of item's agreement and the respondent's ability. The findings showed that the item's reliability index was 0.83 and the respondent's reliability index was 0.96. The item's strata index was 2.18, which means that there are two different levels of item agreement in this study. Meanwhile, the respondent's strata index was 5.24, which means that there are five levels of respondent's requirement in this study. The results alsofound that 21 items were misfits based on the Rasch Measurement Model's values of outfit/ infit MNSQ and the z-standardised index. The Rasch Measurement Model identified that most of the construction practitioners required construction management graduates to practise generic skill competency in performing the roles and tasks of entry-level construction managers.
- Subjects
CONSTRUCTION contractors; CONSTRUCTION management; ABILITY; EXECUTIVES; DATA analysis
- Publication
Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 2017, Vol 25S, p93
- ISSN
0128-7702
- Publication type
Article