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Dewberry, C, Hayes, A and Sarhan, S (2018) Behavioural Assessments in Construction Procurement: A Bandwagon of Institutional Waste? . In: Gorse, C and Neilson, C J (Eds.), Proceedings 34th Annual ARCOM Conference, 3-5 September 2018, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 159–168.

• Type: Conference Proceedings
• Keywords: Construction Procurement, Behavioural Assessment, Waste, Social Science, Performance Prediction
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9955463-2-5
• URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/8de380eecd33df8b5638921e725a9e05.pdf
• Abstract:
  

  The continually evolving drive to create integrated and collaborative project teams from a supply chain of disparate organizations has seen the behavioural assessment of suppliers become increasingly common in construction procurement exercises. Within the stated objectives of this are the desire of procuring authorities to select supply partners with the right ‘collaborative working capabilities’ and ‘cultural alignment’. Suppliers having the ‘right behaviours’ are seen as critical to project success. The belief in the benefits of behavioural assessments in procurement has become so prevalent as to be referenced in the Infrastructure Client Group’s ‘Alliancing Code of Practice’ published by HM Treasury in 2015. However, the spread of this resource intensive practice has occurred in the absence of any published evidence that it increases the effectiveness of procurement objectives, and without reference to the extensive scientific literature on the efficacy of behavioural assessment in the context of performance prediction.

   

  This paper critically evaluates the efficacy and value of behavioural assessment practices commonly used in UK infrastructure procurement exercises. In doing so we use extensive evidence from the field of social science to address ARCOM’s 2018 central theme, ‘Balancing fragmentation and integration’. Importantly, the paper addresses the use of methods attempting to secure integration but which evidence suggests generate actual and potential waste.

   

  The paper draws on social science and construction management literature and contributes to knowledge in three different ways: (1) raising awareness of the extensive social science research on behavioural assessment, and its implications for the application of such assessment in procurement; (2) providing a novel platform that can be used to assess the efficacy of such assessment, including each of its component parts; and finally by (3) adding to the turn towards engaging psychological science as a basis for improving construction management practice by reducing ‘institutional waste’.

Mossman, A and Sarhan, S (2021) Synchronising off-site fabrication with on-site production in construction. Construction Economics and Building, 21(03), 122-41.

Sarhan, J G, Xia, B, Fawzia, S, Karim, A, Olanipekun, A O and Coffey, V (2019) Framework for the implementation of lean construction strategies using the interpretive structural modelling (ISM) technique. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(01), 1–23.

Sarhan, J, G, Bo X, Fawzia, S and Karim, A (2017) Lean Construction Implementation in the Saudi Arabian Construction Industry . Construction Economics and Building, 17(01), 46-69.

Sarhan, J, Xia, B, Fawzia, S, Karim, A and Olanipekun, A (2018) Barriers to implementing lean construction practices in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) construction industry. Construction Innovation, 18(02), 246–72.

Sarhan, M (2008) Risk-based approach in highway geometric design, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Carleton University (Canada).

Sarhan, S (2018) Institutional waste within the UK construction industry: an exploratory study, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University.

Sarhan, S and Fox, A (2013) Performance measurement in the UK construction industry and its role in supporting the application of lean construction concepts. Construction Economics and Building, 13(01), 23-35.

Sarhan, S and Pretlove, S (2021) Lean and sustainable construction: State of the art and future directions. Construction Economics and Building, 21(03), 1-10.