Impacts of stress on estimation performance in Hong Kong

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 891-903

  Leung, Mei Yung ^a   Olomolaiye, Paul ^b   Chong, Alice ^a   Lam, Chloe C Y ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost estimation; Interpersonal; Organization; Performance; Stress; Task

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; COSTS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PERSONNEL TESTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

COST ESTIMATION; ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE; INTERPERSONAL; PROFESSIONAL ESTIMATORS; SUBJECTIVE JUDGEMENT;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

ESTIMATION METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STRESS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EID: 29244487861     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144619042000326701     Document Type: Article

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