CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ICT APPLICATIONS IN NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Abdullahi Y. Waziri         and Kherun Nita Ali

Faculty of Built Environment

                        Universiti Technologi, Malaysia.

E-mail: aywaziri@gmail.com, kherun.nita@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Information and communication technology is increasingly deployed in enhancing organizational processes for a positive impact on productivity and job satisfaction. Unfortunately, numerous construction organizations focus on the “hard” technology acquisitions in guiding organizational success and ignoring the integration of human system assumed to be the end-user of the invested technologies. The failure of most ICT interventions to effectively integrate employee adoption issues have contributed significantly in abandoning IT initiatives for not meeting their performance objectives. Through an extensive review of academic literatures, this study examines the importance of change management and reflects upon its significance in the larger context of ICT implementation. To do this, the general concept of organizational change management and change models/theories have been discussed along with some important constructs considered in organizational transformation from developing country perspective.