Empowerment as a strategy for improving construction performance

Leadership and Management in Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-37

  Price, Andrew D F ^a   Bryman, Alan ^a   Dainty, Andrew R J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DECISION MAKING; JOB SATISFACTION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MOTIVATION; PERSONNEL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CONSTRUCTION PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM);

EMPOWERMENT OF PERSONNEL;

EID: 9144248574     PISSN: 15326748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1532-6748(2004)4:1(27)     Document Type: Review

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56. Andrew D. F. Price (corresponding author) is a Professor of Project Management in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK (e-mail: A.D.F.Price@lboro.ac.uk). Alan Bryman is a Professor of Social Research in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, and Andrew R. J. Dainty is a Lecturer in construction management in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University.