Stakeholders' Engagement: A Measure of Project Success

Abstract

In construction, stakeholders engagement is viewed from two major perspectives: management perspective and ethical perspective. Management perspective deals with capturing of information, increase in responsibility of the property by users, minimising conflict and support innovation while ethical perspective deals with decision-making for both inclusive and local, promote equity and build social capital. Apart from the two major view, stakeholder's engagement can also be viewed from another angle, which is social learning perspective. Social learning is an area where different stakeholders have the same place for discussion, acquiring of each other's values, agree on their own values and generate mutual objectives. Stakeholders make use of dialogue to create consciousness, changing of attitude and affect behaviours. Stakeholders' engagement are majorly viewed from either management perspective or ethical perspective but not from both perspectives. For us to achieve sustainability, there is need for an approach that will bring the two major perspective together.

Citation

Oke, A.E. (2022), "Stakeholders' Engagement: A Measure of Project Success", Measures of Sustainable Construction Projects Performance, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 153-157. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-997-520221043