Title A Study of Construction Management Professionals’Vocational Ethics
Authors Kim, Seung-Jin ; Kwun, Joon-Bum ; Lee, Jae-Wook ; Kim, Han-Soo
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.6106/KJCEM.2012.13.3.089
Page pp.89-98
ISSN 1229-7534
Keywords CM Professionals ; Vocational Ethics ; CM Firms ; Importance and Performance ; IPA technique
Abstract The growth of CM(construction management) market poses business opportunities and challenges to improve vocational ethics of CM professionals and firms. Ensuring the vocational ethics of CM professionals is an important issue not only for individual CM professional but also CM firms and CM industry in general. The objective of the study is to investigate relationships between the importance and performance of CM professionals’vocational ethics and discuss key characteristics and implications. The IPA(Importance-Performance Analysis) technique is used as a research tool. Findings show that quality CM service and competencies are the core of CM professionals’vocational ethics. But there exists a gap between importance and performance of CM professionals’vocational ethics.