Enabling construction project managers through a management game
Industrial and Commercial Training
ISSN: 0019-7858
Article publication date: 17 June 2021
Issue publication date: 14 October 2021
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to design and develop a management game in the field of construction project management so that by playing the game, the required level of knowledge, skills, capabilities and overall project management competencies in individuals will be promoted. Also, player’s competencies can be measured.
Design/methodology/approach
This study, in terms of application, is applied research. The construction project management simulation game (CPMSG) was played by 18 university students. To evaluate the level of the players’ project management knowledge and quality of the game, questionnaires were used.
Findings
The game improves the players’ project management knowledge by 158%, and the educational program that was formulated in the game has also achieved the first three levels of bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives. In the field of game quality, analysis of players’ results of responses and scores show that the game has a good quality level.
Originality/value
The CPMS game provides a useful tool for project management training, especially in the field of construction projects. It helps in addition to improving the quality of teaching theoretical topics, making students acquainted with the risks and uncertainties of such projects, and provides a simulated experience. In the field of common behavior analysis and player’s selection, the results indicated that the majority of groups used high-quality materials during the games to perform activities related to the appearance of the building (such as finishing and building facade activities) and used medium quality materials in implementing infrastructural activities such as brickwork and floor construction that are not visible in the appearance of work.
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Acknowledgements
Funding: The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.Declaration of conflicting interests: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
Citation
Fahmi Hassan, A., Haghighi-Rad, F. and Abtahi, A.-R. (2021), "Enabling construction project managers through a management game", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 53 No. 4, pp. 343-365. https://doi.org/10.1108/ICT-05-2020-0062
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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