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Elaborates on specific realities of the construction environment, and of management and operations of growing … inherent inward‐oriented management attitudes with increased understanding of the complex and changing construction environment …
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Purpose – A need for effective leadership and adequate managing the personnel is vital for every construction organization. Meanwhile, the dynamic and complex environments of the industry may be caused that not much research has been conducted on leadership practices in the industry. The...
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management nature and could be attributed to motivation and managerial policy aspects. The study also recognises that factors …
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Quality management practices do support the management of strategically important innovation processes. This conclusion … intensively studied during a three‐year period. The quality management practices that are used in this project to support the … management of strategically important innovation processes are described and analyzed. The description and analysis is based on …
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The purpose of this article is briefly to describe the developing and structuring of a concrete technology course for the construction companies in Hong Kong. Statistics on student profile and course enrolment are presented to demonstrate the characteristic of the local industry and course...
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Reviews reward management practice in the construction industry, based on a postal survey of larger construction firms …. The research results provide little evidence of thorough‐going use of reward management to encourage and reinforce … little evidence of developed performance management systems. The absence of more formalized reward systems may provide a …
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management practices. Contractors are moving rapidly to meet the challenges of a modern business world and are making full use of … has been provided to make the reader think seriously about the subject of management, and the training of managers within …
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Singaporean construction firms have increasingly invested in China in recent years. It is, therefore, important for Singaporean construction firms as well as their Chinese counterparts to appreciate and understand each other’s cultural differences/similarities. Although Singapore culture...
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issues namely those relating to environment; health and safety; human resources; supply chain management; customers and …
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“long‐term” approaches to marketing management across cycles tended to attain superior performance. However, short …
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