The impact of management practices on mechanical construction productivity

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 305-316

  Shan, Yongwei ^a   Goodrum, Paul M ^a   Zhai, Dong ^a   Haas, Carl ^b   Caldas, Carlos H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Labour productivity; Pre project planning; Safety; Team building

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY INSTITUTES; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTIVITY; DATA SETS; LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS; PROJECT PLANNING; SAFETY; TEAM BUILDING;

AUTOMATION; BUILDING MATERIALS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MACHINERY; PLANNING; PRODUCTIVITY;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

AUTOMATION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SAFETY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952371716     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2010.538070     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Abudayyeh, O. (1994) Partnering: a team building approach to quality construction management. Journal of Management in Engineering, 10(6), 26-9.
2. Albanese, R. (1995) Team-building process: key to better project results. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 10(6), 36-44.
3. Cho, C. and Gibson, G.E. (2001) Building project scope definition using Project Definition Rating Index. Journal of Architectural Engineering, 7(4), 115-25.
4. Choudhry, R.M., Fang, D. and Mohamed, S. (2007a) The nature of safety culture: a survey of the state-of-the-art. Safety Science, 45(10), 993-1012.
5. Choudhry, R.M., Fang, D. and Mohamed, S. (2007b) Developing a model of construction safety culture. Journal of Management in Engineering, 23(4), 207-12.
6. Choudhry, R.M., Dongping, F. and Ahmed, S.M. (2008) Safety management in construction: best practices in Hong Kong. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education & Practice, 134(1), 20-32.
7. Cooper, M.D. (2000) Towards a model of safety culture. Safety Science, 36(2), 111-36.
8. Gibson, G.E., Kaczmarowski, J.H. and Lore, H.E. (1993) Modeling Pre-Project Planning for the Construction of Capital Facilities, Report SD-94, Construction Industry Institute (CII), Austin, TX.
9. Gibson, G.E., Jr, Kaczmarowski, J.H. and Lore, H.E. (1995) Pre-project planning process for capital facilities. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 121(3), 312-18.
10. Hamilton, M. and Gibson, G. (1996) Benchmarking preproject planning effort. Journal of Management in Engineering, 12(2), 25-33.
11. Hann, J. and Kamber, M. (2000) Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, San Francisco, CA.
12. Hanna, A.S., Russell, J.S., Gotzion, T.W. and Nordheim, E.V. (1999a) Impact of change orders on labor efficiency for mechanical construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 125(3), 176-84.
13. Hanna, A.S., Russell, J.S., Nordheim, E.V. and Bruggink, M.J. (1999b) Impact of change orders on labor efficiency for electrical construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 125(4), 224-32.
14. Hanna, A.S., Peterson, P. and Lee, M. (2002) Benchmarking productivity indicators for electrical/mechanical projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(4), 331-7.
15. Hanna, A., Camlic, R., Peterson, P. and Lee, M. (2004) Cumulative effect of project changes for electrical and mechanical construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 130(6), 762-71.
16. Hartman, F. and Ashrafi, R. (2004) Development of the SMARTTM Project-Planning framework. International Journal of Project Management, 22(6), 499-510.
17. Kang, Y., Thomas, S. and O'Brien, W. (2006) Impacts of Automation and Integration Technologies on Project and Company Preference, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Report GCR 06-009.
18. Mearns, K., Whitaker, S.M. and Flin, R. (2003) Safety climate, safety management practice and safety performance in offshore environments. Safety Science, 41(8), 641-80.
19. Mohamed, S. (1999) Empirical investigation of construction safety management activities and performance in Australia. Safety Science, 33(3), 129-42.
20. Mohamed, S. (2002) Safety climate in construction site environments. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(5), 375-84.
21. O'Connor, J. and Yang, L. (2004) Project performance versus use of technologies at project and phase levels. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 130(3), 322-9.
22. Oglesby, C.H., Parker, H.W. and Howell, G.A. (1989) Productivity Improvement in Construction: Productivity Improvement On-Site Construction Viewed as a System, McGraw-Hill, San Francisco, CA, pp. 63-83.
23. Robert Morris Associates (2000) Annual Statement Studies, Report, Philadelphia.
24. Smith, C.C. (2000) Improved project definition ensures value-added performance: part 1. Hydrocarbon Process, 79(8), 4.
25. Webster, J. (2004) Project planning: getting it right the first time, in Procs., 2004 IEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, Vol. 6, Big Sky, Mont., 6-13 March, pp. 3924-30.
26. Wu, T.-C., Chen, C.-H. and Li, C.-C. (2008) A correlation among safety leadership, safety climate and safety performance. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 21(3), 307-18.
27. Yang, L.R., O'Connor, J.T. and Chen, J.H. (2007) Assessment of automation and integration technology's impacts on project stakeholder success. Automation in Construction, 16, 725-33.
28. Zhai, D., Goodrum, P.M., Haas, C.T. and Caldas, C.H. (2009) Relationship between automation and integration of construction information systems and labor productivity. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 135(8), 746-53.
29. Zohar, D. (2002) The effects of leadership dimensions, safety climate, and assigned priorities on minor injuries in work groups. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23(1), 75-92.