A solution for stakeholder management in Vietnamese construction projects

In recent decades, stakeholder management – a special perspective of management – has become implanted in managers’ and planners’ mind. It is expected to become an increasingly important management aspect. In Vietnam, there are some problems in stakeholder management in construction projects like low level of vision sharing among management team, lack or limited application in applying stakeholder management processes, and weakness in managers’ ability and stakeholder management strategies. All of them lead to an ineffective management style in projects and cause negative impact when troubles from stakeholders appear. From these inspected causes, this paper is to suggest a practical lean construction based solution for the top managers to apply to solve their current problems and to improve effectiveness in construction companies and project management. The paper discussed on six main reasons for this current situation; they are silo information system, management process, human HR training quality, internal – external working environment, measurement and evaluating method, and top management cause. Based on these causes, the thesis puts forward a solution and recommendations for the top managers to apply some stakeholder management processes, which expected to solve their current problem and increase effectiveness of construction project management.