Resolving the methodological conundrum: Bolstering the research Achilles' heel in South Africa

Determining, understanding, writing and applying research methodology to treatises, dissertations and theses has been and continues to be a major challenge for students and supervisors alike. This research was thus conducted in order to chart a pathway out of the methodological conundrum. The method used is an expository review of the methodology chapters of existing honours treatises, masters treatises and dissertations, and doctoral theses archived in a South African university. The critical literature examination was however limited to construction management research (CMR) outputs. The findings reveal that the research planning, locating the related literature, balancing between describing the problem qualitatively and quantitatively, establishing the number of parameters that need to be measured / observed, and determining