Demotivating factors influencing the productivity of civil engineering projects

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-146

  Ng, S Thomas ^a   Skitmore, R Martin ^b   Lam, Ka Chi ^c   Poon, Anthony W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Construction workers; Demotivation; Demotivators; Motivation; Productivity; Time loss

Indexed keywords

PERSONNEL; PRODUCTIVITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SURVEYS;

DEMOTIVATION;

CIVIL ENGINEERING;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 0346255639     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-7863(03)00061-9     Document Type: Article

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