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Title:
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS ON PERFORMANCE OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN NYANDARUA COUNTY, KENYA

Authors:
Dr. Antony Wainaina Ndungu, PhD ; Kepha Ochora Ochoi and Nturibi Maureen Nkirote

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Dr. Antony Wainaina Ndungu, PhD1 ; Kepha Ochora Ochoi2 and Nturibi Maureen Nkirote3
1,2,3Faculty of Business and Management Sciences, The University of Nairobi, Kenya

MLA 8
Ndungu, Dr. Antony Wainaina, et al. "MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS ON PERFORMANCE OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN NYANDARUA COUNTY, KENYA." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 8, no. 4, Apr. 2023, pp. 737-757, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i04.014. Accessed Apr. 2023.
APA 6
Ndungu, D., Ochoi, K., & Nkirote, N. (2023, April). MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS ON PERFORMANCE OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN NYANDARUA COUNTY, KENYA. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 8(4), 737-757. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i04.014
Chicago
Ndungu, Dr. Antony Wainaina, Kepha Ochora Ochoi, and Nturibi Maureen Nkirote. "MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS ON PERFORMANCE OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN NYANDARUA COUNTY, KENYA." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 8, no. 4 (April 2023), 737-757. Accessed April, 2023. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i04.014.

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ABSTRACT:
The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of project management information systems on road construction project performance; a case of Nyandarua County, Kenya. The objective of this study was to establish the extent to which system quality influences the performance of road construction projects. The study was hinged on the Delone and Mclean IS Success Model .The study adopted a descriptive research design. The target population was 302 comprising of project managers, construction managers and project supervisors from 62 local road construction projects in Nyandarua County. The 169 participants were recruited by a stratified proportional random selection procedure. Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect primary information. Statistical Analysis Software for the Social Sciences was used for the data analysis (SPSS Version125.0). All numerical variables had their descriptive statistics computed, including frequency and percentage distributions, mean and standard deviation, and presentation in frequency tables. Inferential data analysis was done using multiple regression analysis. According to the research, the quality of the system had a minor impact on road construction project performance. The research found out that the information quality provided by the system has a significant impact on the outcomes of road construction performance projects. The study also found out that the performance of road construction projects was moderately affected by the ease with which project data could be accessed and retrieved.
From the findings, the study revealed that a unit increase in system quality would lead to a 0.828 increase in performance of road construction projects in Nyandarua County. This variable was significant since p=0.001 is less than 0.05 and therefore the study established that system quality had a positive influence on the performance of road construction projects in Nyandarua County, Kenya (?=0.828, p=0.001<0.05).
Based on the results of the study, it is recommended that the management of road construction projects in Nyandarua County, upgrade their PMIS in terms of software adaptability, software availability, software reliability, software response time, usability, and maintainability in order to improve the performance of road construction projects.

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