Construction management and organizational behavior / Maureen Rhoden with Brian Cato.
By: Rhoden, Maureen [author]
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Contributor(s): Cato, Brian [author].
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BookPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: viii, 216 pages : illustrations, 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781118674819 (paperback); 1118674812 (paperback).Subject(s): Construction industry -- Management | Organizational change -- ManagementDDC classification: 624.068 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 624.068 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | MTU Cork Module BULD 8007 - Core reading. | 00214785 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of management ideas and practices, focusing on the human relations side of construction management. Easily accessible and suitable for use within the classroom or in distance learning situations, it discusses a range of themes and trends covering evidence based management practices in the construction industry. Each chapter contains annotated further reading, chapter summaries and outline summaries of relevant legislation within the construction industry.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
History of management -- The nature of management -- Leadership -- Communication and motivation -- Conflict and negotiation -- Creative problem solving -- Managing organizational change -- Entrepreneurship and innovation -- Organizational culture -- Organizational strategy -- Organizations and structures.
Construction Management and Organisational Behaviour provides a comprehensive account of management ideas and practices, focusing on human relations within construction management. Easily accessible and suitable for use in face to face or in distance learning situations, it discusses a range of themes and trends covering evidence based management practices in the construction industry. A variety of learning elements are included, such as chapter summaries, case studies, reflective questions, useful websites and annotated further reading lists. Final year and post graduate students of construction and civil engineering, as well as managers at all levels within the construction industry, will find this an ideal introduction to the range of soft skills they need to acquire to enable them to become successful construction managers. -- Book jacket.
MTU Cork Module BULD 8007 - Core reading.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
About the AuthorMaureen Rhoden is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Built Environment at the University of Greenwich, London. She specialises in the study and teaching of soft skills in construction management in addition to supervising dissertations of undergraduate and postgraduate students researching in soft skills and construction management related Issues.
Brian Cato is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Built Environment at the University of Greenwich, London. He is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and Project Manager with 30 years� experience in the construction industry, 25 of them in private practice and latterly 5 years in education.