Effect of Professionals Soft-Skills on Construction Project Effectiveness in Abuja Municipal Council (AMAC), Nigeria

Construction industry found that 87% of professionals believed that soft-skills play a crucial role in construction practices and 68% stated that these soft-skills are very important as to improve construction project effectiveness globally. The study aimed at assessing the effect of professionals’ soft-skills on construction project effectiveness in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Nigeria. a quantitative research design was adopted with structured questionnaire designed to collect the primary data of the stud from the 327 construction professionals in AMAC. The research was a quantitative in nature with Architects, Builders, Civil Engineers and Quantity Surveyors as the population of the study. Questionnaire was used as the tool for data collection and the data were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistical methods of data analyses. The study result revealed that there is positive strong significant effect of construction professionals soft-skills on construction project effectiveness in AMAC, Nigeria with B-value = 0.867 (86.7%) and p < 0.000. The study concluded that there is high level of soft-skills of construction professionals in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Nigeria with communication skill, integrity skill, self-management/time-management skill, teamwork and networking skill, flexibility/adaptability skill, and creativity and curiosity skill as the most soft-skills of the construction professionals; there is high level of effectiveness of construction projects in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Nigeria with client’s satisfaction dimension, profitability dimension, learning and development dimension, environment performance dimension, and employee satisfaction dimension as the most construction project effectiveness; there is high performance of construction professionals in AMAC, Nigeria. The study recommended that construction professionals should stress and practice soft-skills in their daily endeavours to ensure construction success and project delivery; policy makers should use the outcome to continually improve level of performance of the construction professionals in the construction industry as the industry is dynamic in nature that can restore the performance of the construction industry; and all stakeholders in the construction industry should wisely join hand together to ensure robust industry so as to derived the full potentials of the industry in terms of economic development to the nation, employment generation, infrastructural development, and so on.