Understanding employee resourcing in construction organizations

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1133-1143

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

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employee involvement; Human resource management; Project team; Recruitment; Strategic management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LIFE CYCLE; MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PLANNING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

AD HOC APPROACHES; CASE STUDIES; CONSTRUCTION ORGANIZATIONS; CONTRACTING FIRMS; CURRENT PROJECTS; DEPLOYMENT PROCESSES; DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES; EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT; EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENTS; HUMAN RESOURCES; MAKING PROCESSES; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENTS; PRODUCTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; PROJECT DEPLOYMENTS; PROJECT ENVIRONMENTS; PROJECT TEAM; PROJECT'S LIFE CYCLES; RECRUITMENT; RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS; RESOURCING; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN RESOURCE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RECRUITMENT (EMPLOYMENT); STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 57449085504     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190802422153     Document Type: Article

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