Balancing employee needs, project requirements and organisational priorities in team deployment

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 883-895

  Raidén, Ani Birgit ^a   Dainty, Andrew R J ^b   Neale, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Human resource management; Motivation; Organisational culture; Teams

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL); MOTIVATION; PERSONNEL; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EMPLOYEE ABILITY, MOTIVATION AND OPPORTUNITY; EMPLOYEE STRESS; ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE; STAFF TURNOVER; TEAM DEPLOYMENT;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; FIRM SIZE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 33748199633     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190600647191     Document Type: Article

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