ASSESSMENT THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES USING TOPSIS TECHNIQUE

I. Naji, Hafeth; L. Abass, Ali

	ASSESSMENT THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES USING TOPSIS TECHNIQUE
DIYALA JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Article 5, Volume 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 24-44 PDF (0 K)
Authors
Hafeth I. Naji; Ali L. Abass
Abstract
The subject of the decision-making in construction projects occupies the main concern in implementing most of the companies in developed countries, so there was significant interest in the development of methods for multi-criteria decision-making. And so as this research which focuses on the provision of Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to assess the organizational structures in construction companies. Where some implementing companies could face to financial losses or a decline in expected profits during the implementation due to weaknesses in the organizational structure or not adopting the best organizational structure which able to provide the necessary data and information that will help the various administrative levels in the follow-up and control of project performance. This research aims to highlight the importance of organizational structure in the construction companies working at the University of Diyala, and how technology can be employed basis (TOPSIS) to assess the organizational structures in these companies through determining the used criteria to select the best company in terms of organizational structure. For the purpose of achieving the objective of research, it has been collecting its own data from the literature that dealt with the Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal Solution and organizational structures, and finally personal interviews of specialists from companies managers and directors of departments and project managers. The results of data analysis for the sample showed that the criteria overlap career, development of managers and employees and strengthen the ties between them, understanding the project and its objectives and to accelerate the process of decision-making, the memory of a strong institution are the most important criteria to make bilateral comparisons between companies, and the standard overlap career, understanding the project and its objectives and accelerate the process of decision- making are more important than the rest of the criteria in the evaluation of companies. Finally, and by calculating the relative closeness and index category of order companies find that Al Fao General Contracting Company has won the largest share of importance in comparison with other companies. Finally, there was a set of conclusions and recommendations of the various aspects of the topic from, accelerate the application of techniques of multi-criteria decision-making in the evaluation of projects in addition to expediting the application of organizational structures proposed by researchers to help companies managers to have efficient decision-making, which will lead to a process of setting and more effective control on the construction project.
Keywords
organizational structure; TOPSIS

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