Dissertations / Theses: 'Construction manager'

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Alho, Yasser, and Eillas Rostam Usef. "Learning time for graduated project manager." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kommunikations- och transportsystem, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-131974.

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Byggbranschen står idag inför stora utmaningar gällande rekrytering av erfarna projektledare. Företagen har upplevt svårigheter med att hitta erfarna projektledare, detta beror på att det saknas nästan två generationer av projektledare samt att många går i pension. En lösning till problemet är att anställa nyexaminerade projektledare för att fylla luckan. Problemet med nyutexaminerade är att de saknar erfarenhet när de kommer ut i arbetslivet. Det är en utmaning för konsultföretagen, eftersom inlärningstiden för att bli projektledare vanligtvis är långa perioder. Syftet med denna studie är att förtydliga inlärningstiden för de nyutexaminerade projektledare samt att ge organisationen ett underlag för att de ska kunna se vad de bör skapa för förutsättningar och metoder. Huvudfrågorna som behandlas i vår studie är ”Vad innebär det att vara projektledare?” och ”Vad krävs för att man skall gå från att vara en nyutexaminerade byggingenjör till att bli projektledare?” Undersökningen är en kvalitativ studie som genomförts på WSP Management Östergötland. Den empiriska datainsamlingen har skett via personliga intervjuer med elva respondenter fördelade på Norrköping och Linköping kontoren. Studien visar på att vara projektledare kan variera mycket beroende på hur man väljer att tolka det, men inom byggbranschen handlar det om att leverera en produkt eller ett resultat till en begränsad budget och till en bestämd tid. Som projektledare är man beställarens ”högra hand” och ska uppfylla kundens önskemål i projektet. För att detta ska gå ihop krävs ständig kommunikation så att man förstår varandra och undviker missförstånd. Med utgångspunkt från undersökningen har vi även konstaterat att det som krävs för att man ska gå från att vara nyexaminerad byggingenjör till att bli projektledare inom området management, är rätt metod, rätt organisatoriska- och individuella förutsättningar samt att man övervinner krav och hinder som ställs från beställarsidan.

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Mlčoch, Ondřej. "Formy a metody motivace manažera ve stavebnictví." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-227051.

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Thesis „Forms and methods of motivation for manager in consruction engineering“ deals with motivation of leaders in construction companies. Theoretical part includes explanation, that is necessary to grasp basic view of motivation and management, motivation thesis and manager’s styles. Practical part analyzes current situation in building industry a recommends procedures for improving the working company environment.

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Mitra, John Paul, Joseph Shrestha, Jeremy Ross, and Jinseok Hong. "Analysis of Construction Cost Variation of Construction Manager General Contractor (CM/GC) Project." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5472.

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Cost overrun is prevalent in the construction industry. Usually, an owner sets a budget at the preliminary phase of a project which changes over time. Past studies are focused on analyzing the cost growth of design-bid-build projects during construction. Limited efforts have been made to analyze details of projects delivered with the Construction Manager General Contractor (CM/GC) method. This study tracks and analyzes the construction cost variation of a project from the conceptual phase to the design completion phase. The analysis is presented with a case study of a new stadium construction project. It identifies that the changes in the scope and design of the project due to the change in available budget were a major reason for variation in the cost estimates over time. Further, this study identifies a) trades with the highest variation in subcontractors’ bids, b) trades that were most overestimated, and c) trades that were most underestimated. The findings of this study is expected to aid owners, designers, and contractors of future projects in improving the preparation, planning, and estimating of future projects; reducing cost variation within trades; and optimizing the amount of contingency required to ensure the successful completion of similar projects.

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Cook, Paul Stephen. "Operation and Funding of the Regional Wartime Construction Manager." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/43857.

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This thesis prepares a training exercise scenario for the Navy's Regional Wartime Construction Manager - Mediterranean (RWCM). The RWCM is a reserve organization which has the responsibility for wartime or contingency construction management. To aid in the training exercise cf the management of resources, a Resource Cost Model is developed. First, a context for the use of the model is provided by examining the two funds used in contingency construction; Operations and Maintenance (0 & M) and Military Construction (MILCON). Next, the policies of Titles 10 and 41 of the U.S. Code, which permit the use of unobligated MILCON funds and deficiency spending, are discussed. Finally, the direct labor and overhead costs of the RWCM1 staff, the deputy, and the area managers are estimated. The total cost is estimated to range from $12.5 to $15.2 million per year.

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Ayessaki, Winn-Yam Houdou. "Construction project manager health and safety interventions towards improving workers' performance." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/12275.

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Optimum construction worker (CW) performance is required to achieve project delivery within project parameters. It is not always the case as CWs are regularly exposed to hazards, involved in accidents, their productivity is poor, they suffer from ill health, suffer from work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) and contractors lack resources to allocate towards H&S. However, the lack or the absence of health and safety (H&S) measures, which the aforementioned depend on, has a negative impact on workers’ performance. Two descriptive surveys were conducted among professional construction project managers (CPMs) registered with the South African Council for Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP) and general contractors (GCs) registered with the East Cape Master Builders Association (ECMBA). Interviews were also conducted with CPMs registered with the SACPCMP residing in the Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan area. The salient findings include: • Accidents, which occur on construction sites, impact workers’ performance; • Inadequate H&S implementation affects both CW skills and motivation, which in turn affects their performance; • Poor constructability is relevant to H&S and CWs’ skills; • Provision and maintenance of welfare facilities are commonly inadequate and affect workers’ performance, and • Projects do not benefit from the adequate financial provision for H&S. It was concluded that exposure to hazards, poor site conditions, inadequate provision of welfare facilities, WMSDs, and insufficient financial provision for H&S affect workers’ performance by either incapacitating or demotivating them. Recommendations include : CPMs should make better use of their influence on clients; they should improve communication channels between project stakeholders; legislators need to raise awareness regarding H&S and worker welfare, and training and education institutions need to empower workers and professionals with H&S knowledge.

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Crespo, Luis Gaspar. "Project Manager Strategies to Improve the Delivery of Construction Projects." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6194.

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The return on investment of construction organizations is at risk because construction managers fail to execute projects efficiently. The purpose of this single case study was to explore strategies that construction managers used to deliver projects efficiently. The selected population was 10 construction managers from a single construction organization operating in Panama. The conceptual framework for this study was the McKinsey 7S. Data were collected using semistructured interviews, observations, and a review of public documents. Collected data were compiled, disassembled, reassembled, interpreted, and then conclusions were reached, as noted in Yin's 5-step analysis. Themes that emerged from the study included project experience, communication, collaboration, and resource management. Construction managers noted that the review of needed project experience in alignment with the complexity of the project is a strategy to deliver projects efficiently. Leaders of construction organizations can increase strategic performance by implementing collaboration and leadership programs in accordance with the business objectives. By improving labor productivity, construction companies can complete construction projects faster and with lower construction costs. The findings of this study could contribute to positive social change by providing communication and collaboration strategies between construction organizations and local communities to source local staff and resources. Construction managers might benefit from the findings of this study by increasing their project management skills, an effect that could result in long-term employability.

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Seaman, R. Anthony (Richard Anthony) 1970. "Multi-organizational project teams and construction innovation : the role of general contractor and construction manager." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9013.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-89).
With the advent of major advances in current information technology, many business leaders and academicians hail the arrival of a new decentralized economy based on globally networked teams. This dispersed "market-oriented" structure is a new reality for many current industrial organizations who must transform from fully-integrated, centralized organizations into loose networks of suppliers and sellers utilizing just-in-time collaboration to develop and manufacture new products and services world-wide. Recent trends in manufacturing, where companies are now pursuing ventures outside their own organizations, highlight the need for empirical studies on the nature of the collaborative innovative processes within multi-organizational project teams. In construction, temporary organizations of allied firms join together for the express purpose of completing large, complex projects. An analysis of the construction industry provides a unique opportunity to analyze the innovative nature of the multi organizational project team. A combination of organization, economic, and innovation theory is used to identify factors that enhance multi-organizational project team innovation. Various factors, including principal-agent relationships, cooperation mechanisms, learning mechanisms, and network utilization, are examined to determine their influence on multi-organizational project team innovation. Seven contracting companies are investigated in the performance of twenty-nine different construction projects. Project information is obtained from actual project team members. Fifty innovations are identified from the project sample and used for analysis. The innovations are measured by project in terms of their number and impact on the operations of the general contractor or construction manager. The analysis examines the correlation between various factors and the innovation activity found on each construction project. This research is a step towards understanding the nature of the multi-organizational project team and its capacity to innovate. Project leaders can use this information to better organize project teams for innovation while construction companies and other construction industry firms can use this information to evaluate their innovation strategy.
by R. Anthony Seaman.
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Ayache, Magali. "La construction de la relation managériale : le manager et son supérieur." Paris 10, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA100154.

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Partant du constat que la littérature isole le manager de la hiérarchie ou se focalise sur la relation hiérarchique descendante, cette thèse vise à comprendre la construction de la relation hiérarchique ascendante entre le manager et son supérieur, en termes de dynamique et de qualité de la relation. Une démarche compréhensive reposant sur une méthodologie qualitative et abductive à deux coups est retenue. Deux campagnes d’entretiens semi-directifs avec vingt puis vingt-six managers d’organisations, de niveaux hiérarchiques et de fonctions variés sont menées. La première porte sur les questions d’autonomie et de rendu de compte et permet de faire émerger un modèle, réutilisé dans la seconde campagne. Un codage multithématique est réalisé. Il apparaît que le manager se montre très actif dans la construction de la relation avec son supérieur. Plusieurs phases de la relation, séparées de points de basculement, sont identifiées : (1) la phase de mise en route et d’apprentissage (durant laquelle le manager met en place des stratégies permettant de réduire l’incertitude quant aux attentes souvent floues du supérieur sur les tâches à accomplir et sur le mode de fonctionnement) ; (2) la phase d’établissement d’une confiance négative (caractérisée par des interactions peu fréquentes et peu développées, un feedback inexistant et un investissement minimal du manager dans la relation) ou positive (relation riche et auto-entretenue, se développant souvent sur le plan affectif et bien vécue par le manager) et (3) une phase de détérioration éventuelle
While academic literature focuses either on managers that are isolated from the hierarchy or on downward relationships, this doctoral research investigates the dynamics and the quality of the upward hierarchical relationship between a manager and his/her boss. A comprehensive research based on a qualitative and abductive double-loop methodology is conducted. We use two series of interviews with, respectively, twenty and twenty-six managers from various hierarchical levels and organizations. The first one examines autonomy and accountability issues. It leads us to propose a model of managerial relationship building on which second-stage interviews rely. We show that managers devote time and effort to building the relationship with their bosses. We identify a set of stages in which turning points mark the passage from one stage to another: (1) a seeding and learning stage during which the manager develops strategies aimed at reducing uncertainty about the superior’s expectations and way of functioning ; (2) the establishing of a “negative” (characterized by scarce interactions, low feedback and decreasing willingness of the manager to invest in the relationship) or “positive” trust (interactions are frequent and the relationship is emotionally-driven and self-sustaining) and (3) a potential decline stage

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Owens, Rebecca M. "The Performance of Risk Management and Innovation in Construction Manager/General Contractor Delivery in Civil Construction Applications." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3883.

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Project teams that deliver high risk, complex projects in the civil construction industry need tools to enable successful delivery. Construction Manager/General Contractor (CM/GC) is an innovative alternate delivery method, providing one such a tool. CM/GC furnishes public agencies with an attractive option for delivering projects in a less adversarial and more constructive manner by involving the contractor during design. The sophisticated public owner does not have to relinquish control of the details of the design in order to accelerate the schedule or see the benefits of real-time cost estimating data. There are also significant cost and schedule benefits with not degradation in quality. However, because CM/GC is relatively unknown to the civil construction industry much remains to be investigated about how CM/GC processes effect successful project delivery. This research investigated how CM/GC processes affect the three critical elements of construction process risks (including quality, schedule, cost and collaboration), project specific risks, and innovation. By identifying the processes that benefit these elements, successes can be repeated and increased. Additionally, an understanding of the differences in the perception of CM/GC processes, given by contractors, owners, and design engineers, provided perspective into improving the process. Analyzing data on current CM/GC projects and programs, as well as the compiled experience of field-experienced project teams, provided the information the industry needs to pursue implementation. Identified advantages of the process can be tied to strategies for successful delivery. Identified disadvantages expose barriers to implementation to be overcome by the project team. Project teams state that while the process does have disadvantages, many are perceptional and not fatal flaws to the method. Findings of this research link CM/GC processes to robust risk management results and the opportunity for successful innovation.

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Fan, Yu-kit. "A study of the participation of property manager in project management." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31969331.

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Jones, Chad B. "The Role of the Architect: Changes of the Past, Practices of the Present, and Indications of the Future." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1228.pdf.

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Horská, Lenka. "Požadavky na manažera ve stavebnictví." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-240029.

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This diploma thesis is focused to requirements for manager in the construction engineering. The theoretical part briefly describes the management and its role in the construction. After that, the work devotes itself to the requirements, functions and techniques of construction manager. The empirical part is looking into the establishment of hypotheses which were either confirmed or disproved in a questionnaire research, concentrated on construction companies and senior students in the field of Management building at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. One of the empirical part is analysis of jobs as a manager in the construction industry. This research is enriched by guided interviews, which is followed by conclusions and subsequent recommendations for both civil society, students and also for the faculty.

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Jirátková, Marie. "Time management v práci stavebního manažera." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-401472.

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The goal of the thesis is to find out if manager in the area of building uses the methods of time management for the planning of work and tasks. At the beginning of theoretical part is the basic definition of the „time management“, assessment of the goals and the priorities, explanation of the methods used by time management and how to manage effectively. This part of the thesis deals with the downside as well – procrastination. Shows this downside as inability to manage the time management. The methods of time management are described and history of this methods as well. The second – practical part of the thesis – contains proposed hypotheses what investigate how the time management is in reality used by building managers, how helps the electronics and if managers prefer the working time. The author tries this hypotheses to confirm or to refute using the survey and structured interviews in selected building companies. The results of the thesis are suitable recommendations for more effective planning of the time and avoidance the mistakes in this area.

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Desmond, Martin, and Henrik Hansson. "The safety manager as a boundary spanner between communities of practice : The employment of a safety manager in a Swedish construction company." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-212069.

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Safety is an important concern within the construction industry. Many different management strategies exist in the literature, but despite ambitious efforts to improve the safety and prevent accidents, the accident incidence is still unacceptably high. This paper examines the employment of a safety manager in the Swedish construction industry as a strategy to foster a better safety culture, and discusses how the safety manager should approach the project based organisation (PBO). The study uses an abductive approach with an iteration of interviews, observations and a literature study to gain deeper knowledge of the subject. The research comprises a cross sectional interview study of semi-structured interviews to narrate the role of the safety manager accompanied with a short survey. The study is limited to three projects of one Swedish construction company, and a new role not yet established in the company. Furthermore, the study uses a human resource management approach with focus on communities of practice and boundary spanning. The findings report that the safety managers take on a role as a boundary spanning link between well-established but unsynchronized communities of practice. The identified communities are the HR department and the PBOs. Furthermore, the safety manager functions as a “double-sided” boundary spanner, to broke knowledge and support employees to achieve a satisfactory safety culture. However, the narratives express a present ambiguity and a need to clarify the role and its responsibilities regarding safety in the PBO. The thesis contributes with insights of the safety manager’s practice and discusses how safety knowledge should be transferred between communities of practice in the fragmented PBO and its high level of tacit knowledge.
Arbetsmiljö och säkerhet är ett viktigt ämne inom byggbranschen. Många olika strategier och metoder för att förbättra arbetsmiljön finns också tillgängliga. Trots detta inträffar alltför många olycksfall. Denna studie undersöker strategin att anställa en safety manager i den svenska byggbranschen för att främja en bättre säkerhetskultur samt diskuterar hur en safety manager bör utöva sin profession. Ett kvalitativt abduktivt arbetssätt har tillämpats där intervjuer och observationer har växlats med litteraturstudier för att erhålla förståelse av ämnet. Studien är en multipel tvärsnittsfallstudie med semistrukturerade intervjuer samt en mindre enkätundersökning. Studien omfattar tre projekt i ett svenskt företag. Det teoretiska perspektivet utgår från, samt begränsas av koncepten human resource management (HRM), communities of practice och boundary spanning. Resultatet visar att safety managern kan fungera som en boundary role som länkar ihop olika osynkroniserade communities. Det identifieras att effektiv boundary spanning kan ske mellan HR-avdelningen och projektorganisationerna samt mellan produktionsledningen och yrkesarbetarna inom projektorganisationerna. Safety managern blir en double-sided boundary spanner som knowledge broker samt en support för anställda för att främja en god säkerhetskultur. Resultatet visar samtidigt att det råder oklarheter kring rollen och att bland annat ansvarsområden behöver förtydligas för att nå full potential. Studien bidrar med insikter i hur safety manager-rollen uppfattas och hur den fungerar, samt hur den kan förbättras. Vidare bidrar studien med förståelse för hur rollen kan främja kunskapsöverföring avseende arbetsmiljö mellan communities där hög grad av tyst kunskap råder.

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Kolomazníková, Alžběta. "Některá specifika komunikace ve stavebnictví." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-227615.

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This diploma thesis is dedicated to communication in construction industry. The theoretical part is focused on definition of the terms like management, manager, communication and feedback. The aim of this thesis is to find out which ways of communication are construction companies using for sharing information. Diploma thesis find out if the employees have possibility to express their opinions. The thesis is dedicated to communication with construction workers and communication problems with them. Hypothesis are mentioned firstly, then they have been verified by questionnaire and interview. The result of this thesis is verification of hypothesis, that the face-to-face meeting is still most popular way of communication in construction companies. The employees receives all necessary information in sufficient amount at right time. Informal communication is the most common. Communication with construction workers is very specific. At the end I mentioned recommendation to improving communication in construction companies.

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Iqbal, Muhammad Naveed, and Sidra Rizvi. "Construction Development and Consequences of Job Satisfaction : Banking Sector of Pakistan." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för ekonomi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-11920.

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Title: Construction, Development and Consequences of Job Satisfaction in Banking Sector of PakistanLevel: Second CycleAuthor: Muhammad Naveed Iqbal and Sidra RizviSupervisor: Dr. Maria Fregidou-MalamaDate: 2012, February.Purpose: This study investigates job satisfaction concepts by considering jobs satisfaction factors, leader/manager’s behavior and effects of job satisfaction in the form of organizational efficiency and individual efficiency. It studies the construction, development and consequences of job satisfaction.Design/methodology: The data is collected from commercial bank in Pakistan through a survey by using two different questionnaires, one for employees and one for managers. SPSS technique was used for data analysis.Result & Conclusion: The job satisfaction factors and manager behavior are the input in construction and development of employees’ job satisfaction. Six factors: (promotion, pay, benefit, rewards coworkers and job responsibilities) and managerial style: (middle to the road managerial style) are the most important basis to build the satisfaction level of the employees. Satisfaction/dissatisfaction of an employee affects the organizational efficiency as well as individual efficiency.Contribution: This research helps researchers to use the created model for further extensive research on job satisfaction. It helps the organizations to assess the status of their employee in regard of job satisfaction. Managers can manage polices related to factors and design training accordingly for the desired leadership behavior according to employees preference.Further Suggestion: This research is done in one department of commercial bank in Pakistan. Increase in sample size could produce comprehensive results. National culture effect is ignored in this research that helps to look on different consequences of job satisfaction assessment according to country’s culture. More service sectors such as hospital, insurance, telecommunication etc. should be considered to get more general results.Originality: This research presents construction, development of employee job satisfaction through factors and manager/leader behavior and its results in the form of consequences of satisfaction or dissatisfaction.Keywords: Job Satisfaction, Employees, Job Satisfaction Factors, Manager/Leader

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Hjelmqvist, Viktor. "Consultant service procurement in the public sector – The competence requirements for construction-and design managing consult-ants." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-190713.

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The demand for consultancy services has increased significantly since the companies began to shift from in-house staff to the purchasing of consulting services. The procurement of consul-tancy services can be considered among the most difficult service that goes to procure which means that it requires extensive knowledge of the purchaser to succeed in the process. In this report, I will examine how five public Swedish purchasers expressed their competence requirements regarding construction and design management ten years ago. I will also con-sider what type of skills they think are the most important today, and also see how the con-sultants' alleged expertise is examined. Finally, I will explain the five public purchasers thoughts on what might happen to their competence requirements in the nearest future. The report is structured in two parts where the first part is an analysis of the client's previous competence requirements. The second part consists of interviews with each individual client. The people that were interviewed all have extensive experience in project management, both from the private and public sectors. Conclusively, I will present what happened with their skills requirements over time and the likely reasons behind it, what forces that are behind changes in organizations, how the public purchasers follow up skill requirements and what they predict will happen to their skills requirements in the nearest future.
Efterfrågan på konsulttjänster har ökat avsevärt sedan många företag börjat köpa in dessa tjänster istället för att anställa egen personal. Att utnyttja konsulttjänster anses vara en av de svåraste tjänster som går att upphandla, vilket ställer krav på bred kompetens hos beställaren för att lyckas handla upp konsulter med rätt kompetens som matchar med projektens kom-plexitet. I den här rapporten undersöks hur fem svenska offentliga beställare uttryckte sin kompetens-kravsättning över bygg-och projekteringsledare tio år tillbaka i tiden. Det undersöks vilken typ av kompetens de riktar mest fokus på, samt hur konsulternas påstådda kompetens följs upp av de offentliga beställarna. Sammanfattningsvis kommer jag att redogöra för vad de fem offentliga beställarna tror kommer att hända med deras kompetenskrav inom den närmsta framtiden. I bakgrundskapitlet tillhandahålls en inblick i hur offentlig upphandling fungerar, där även konsulttjänsteupphandling och konsultföretagens affärsmodeller ser ut. Till grund för detta används faktorer bakom förändringar i organisationer, tillit mellan beställare och entre-prenör, hållbarhet i byggbranschen och outsourcing. Rapporten är uppbyggd i två delar, där ena delen utgörs av en analys av de offentliga bestäl-larnas tidigare kompetenskrav för åren 2005, 2010 och 2015. Den andra delen består av inter-vjuer med representanter från varje enskild beställare, samma fem beställare (Svenska bostä-der, Stockholms stad, Locum, Trafikverket och SL) som den tidigare delen baseras på. Perso-nerna som intervjuats har alla lång erfarenhet av projektledning, både från privat såväl som offentlig sektor. Slutligen presenteras hur kompetenskraven har utvecklats med tiden, tillsammans med tänk-bara faktorer som förklarar troliga anledningar till dess utveckling. Rapporten presenterar också vilka kompetenskrav som de offentliga beställarna ses som viktigast, hur de sköter granskningen av projektkonsulterna och vad de offentliga beställarna förutspår kommer att hända med sina kompetenskrav inom den närmsta framtiden.

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Martincová, Tereza. "Práce manažera a uplatňování rovných příležitostí ve stavebnictví." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-227048.

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The thesis deals with work of manager and the application of equal opportunities in the construction company. The aim of the thesis is to explore the situation in construction companies and comparison of theory with practise. The theoretical part introduces the basic terms and theories related to the topic. Based on a questionnaire survey, the practical part assesses the current situation in construction companies. In the end of the thesis is an evaluation theoretical and practical part, in order recommend prospective changes and conclusion of the thesis.

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Damström, Matilda. "Digitalization and construction project management : What consequences the use of ICT-tools has had on the project manager role in the construction industry." Thesis, KTH, Ledning och organisering i byggande och förvaltning, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-277051.

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Digitalization is a hot topic in the construction industry today, with more and more ICT-tools being used. Web-based project platforms, digital meetings and BIM have all existed for quite a while, however the progress in using them and exploring the potential takes time. ICT-tools are usually aimed to make the information flow and communication more efficient, which directly relates to the project manager in a construction project. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to understand how digital tools has affected the role of the client’s construction project manager over the last 5 years. The purpose is to gain knowledge on what consequences the use of digital tools such as BIM, digital project platforms and digital meetings has had on the role of the project manager and how they deal with the consequences. In this thesis, a qualitative study has been performed, where construction project managers were interviewed about their experiences of ICT-tools and the changes that has occurred over time. The findings were analyzed with a theoretical framework and discussed together with previous research and knowledge. The theoretical framework includes key aspects of leadership in project management and four main categories explaining how actors use ICT. The use of BIM was in particular analyzed using the Bew-Richards BIM maturity model. The study shows that there has been an increase in use of ICT-tools in construction projects over the last 5 years, and that there are both benefits and challenges for the project manager with all three types of digital tools that were in this study. BIM, digital project platforms and digital meetings. The primary benefits were shown to be that the tools increase timeefficiency in the project manager role and it facilitates communication. However, there is less personal contact with project team members and other challenges with getting project participants to the same use of the tools. To increase the significance of the benefits and decrease the negative consequences, the construction project manager should implement a leadership style focused on the human side, with more follow-ups, structure and routines. Technical knowledge about the ICT-tools is also beneficial to the project manager to have since it increases the possibility to guide the project team members in a good way.
Digitalisering är ett hett ämne i byggbranschen, med mer och mer ICT-verktyg som används. Webb-baserade projektplattformar, digitala möten och BIM har alla existerat ett tag nu, men utvecklingen av användandet och utforskningen av deras potential tar tid. ICT-verktyg är ofta avsedda för att effektivisera informationsflödet och kommunikationen, vilket relaterar till projektledaren i ett byggprojekt. Därför är ändamålet med det här examensarbetet att förstå hur digitala verktyg har påverkat byggprojektledarollen på beställarens sida, under de senaste 5 åren. Syftet är att få kunskap om vad för konsekvenser användningen av digitala verktyg så som BIM, digitala projektplattformar och digitala möten har medfört för en projektledare och hur de hanterar konsekvenserna. I det här examensarbetet har en kvalitativ studie gjorts där byggprojektledare intervjuades om deras erfarenheter av ICT-verktyg och de förändringar som har skett över tid. Resultaten analyserades med hjälp av ett teoretiskt ramverk och diskuterades tillsammans med tidigare forskning och kunskap. Det teoretiska ramverket inkluderar vissa nyckelaspekter av ledarskap inom projektledning och 4 huvudsakliga kategorier som beskriver hur aktörer använder ICT. Användningen av BIM var särskilt analyserad genom Bew-Richards model för BIM mognadsgrad. Studien visar att det har varit en ökning av användandet av ICT-verktyg i byggprojekt de senaste 5 åren, och att det är både fördelar och utmaningar för projektledaren med de tre typerna av digitala verktyg som var med i denna studie. BIM, digitala projektplattformar och digitala möten. De främsta fördelarna visade sig vara att verktygen ökar tidseffektiviteten i projektledarrollen och underlättar kommunikationen. Det blir dock mindre personlig kontakt med projektdeltagare och andra utmaningar med att få med projektdeltagare på samma användande av verktygen. För att öka betydelsen av fördelarna och minska de negativa konsekvenserna, borde projektledaren implementera en ledarskapsstil som är mer fokuserad på den mänskliga sidan, med mer uppföljningar, struktur och rutiner. Teknisk kunskap om ICT-verktygen är också fördelaktiga för projektledarna att ha eftersom det ökar möjligheten att vägleda medlemmarna i projektet in på rätt väg.

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Santana, David. "Manager la culture de sûreté : construction, représentations et usages de la "culture de sûreté" dans l’industrie nucléaire." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017IEPP0037.

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Cette thèse étudie la notion de culture de sûreté, nouveau « mantra » des organisations à haut risque (Silbey, 2009). Apparue à la fin des années 1980 afin de mieux prendre en compte l’organisation dans la gestion de la sécurité nucléaire, elle est aujourd'hui très utilisée dans les discours comme dans les politiques managériales des entreprises à haut risque. L’enquête ethnographique, menée par observations de situations de travail, d’entretiens et de l’analyse de documents, permet d’étudier la construction sociale de la notion de culture de sûreté, ses représentations, ses usages et son influence sur l’organisation du travail dans les centrales nucléaires. La thèse appréhende la culture de sûreté comme un objet hybride entre un discours qui serait diffusé dans les industries à risque et un outil de gestion de la sécurité. Elle analyse comment la notion de culture de sûreté s’est installée dans différents espaces sociaux de l’industrie nucléaire grâce à sa flexibilité interprétative : experts internationaux de la sécurité nucléaire, chercheurs des sciences de la sécurité industrielle, dirigeants de la division production nucléaire d’EDF et managers de proximité des centrales nucléaires. La comparaison des systèmes d’action de trois centrales nucléaires montre que dans un univers hautement normé et procéduralisé, la culture de sûreté est devenue un outil, de nature essentiellement discursive. Les managers s’en saisissent pour agir sur les contraintes qui pèsent sur eux et les rapports de pouvoir dans lesquels ils inscrivent leur action, de manière à rendre leur travail plus efficace. La thèse met ainsi en avant la capacité des discours à agir concrètement sur le travail
This thesis examines the concept of safety culture, new 'mantra' of high risk organizations (Silbey, 2009). It appeared in the late 1980s in order to better reflect the organization in the management of nuclear safety, and it is now widely used in the discourse as in the managerial policies of high-risk industry companies. The ethnographic investigation, based on observations, interviews and document analysis, analyzes the social construction of the concept of safety culture, its representations, its uses and its influence on the organization of work in nuclear power plants. The thesis reveals safety culture as a hybrid object between a speech that would be broadcast in high-risk industries and a security management tool. It analyzes how the notion of safety culture has settled in different social spaces of the nuclear industry thanks to its interpretative flexibility: international experts on nuclear safety, “safety science” researchers, EDF’s central administration and team managers in nuclear power plants. The comparison of three nuclear power plants’ local orders shows that in a highly standardized and proceduralized universe, safety culture has essentially become a discursive tool. Managers seize it to act on the constraints laid upon them and power relations in which they act, so as to make their work more effective. Thus, the thesis puts forward the ability of speech to act concretely on the organization of work

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Serhan, Ahmad, and Asen Draganov. "Project managers’ communication skills and stakeholder engagement in sustainable construction projects." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22559.

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Prince, Rudolph F. A. "The construction briefing process : evaluating the influence of personality traits on the performance of the consultant project manager." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2483.

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The briefing process is critical for achieving project success and client satisfaction. It typically involves the consultant project manager co-ordinating the efforts of the demand and supply side stakeholders at the conceptual stage of a project, to identify and define the client requirements. The importance of such early intervention has been highlighted by public sector agencies and professional bodies, leading to the publication of numerous guidance notes and best practice manuals for briefing. Despite such extensive guidance literatures and efforts research shows that current briefing practice is inadequate and a weakness in the construction process. Broadly, the briefing process involves consultant project managers from different background and personality traits. Personality traits are thought of as a pervasive style of thinking, feeling and behaving. The literature demonstrate effective performance relates to an individual`s personality traits. The study attempts to evaluate the influence of personality traits of the consultant project manager on the briefing process. A review of the literature is structured under three chapters; (1) briefing process; (2) consultant project manager role in briefing and; (3) personality traits relationship and influence on performance to introduce a new perspective. It is found that there are correlations between personality traits and effective performance. From the review sixteen traits have been extracted and assessed to be related to the consultant project manager performance in construction briefing. The investigation attempts to establish the relationships between the 16 traits and the consultant project manager performance, and seeks to determine how each trait contributes to effective briefing. This is explored through observing the consultant project manager in briefing and an industry wide questionnaire survey. As the research focuses on the influence of sixteen personality traits on the consultant project manager performance in the briefing process the data was analysed by the Pearson product moment (correlation) coefficient method to evaluate relationships. The research concludes that the consultant project manager performance is connected to the iii sixteen personality traits dimensions tested and these traits are associated with effective briefing performance. The findings have implications for selecting consultant project managers. The implications of the results of this research, and recommendations for future investigations are discussed.

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Ribeiro, Júlio Nuno Rodrigues de Freitas. "A gestão de projetos na construção/indústria em Portugal : a direção de obra face à gestão de projeto." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16545.

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Mestrado em Gestão de Projetos
Propósito: A direção de obra face à gestão de projeto na perspetiva dos diretores de obra, no sector da Construção/Indústria em Portugal. O aparecimento de um novo interveniente, o gestor de projeto, no sector da Construção e Indústria em Portugal tem sido no meio profissional assunto de discussão e análise. O que se questiona profissionalmente é a forma de como será feita a inserção do gestor de projeto com as suas funções, num palco onde historicamente já existem intervenientes que pelo menos parcialmente as exerciam. De entre estes intervenientes destaca-se o diretor de obra cujas funções de coordenação, pelo menos aparentemente, parecem coincidir com as do gestor de projeto. O propósito da presente dissertação é o de abordar esta aparente sobreposição de funções do ponto de vista do diretor de obra. Como objetivos a dissertação pretende aferir as áreas de sobreposição, equacionar as relações de liderança e caracterizar as competências técnicas que os intervenientes devem possuir. Os resultados obtidos, a partir de uma análise qualitativa a inquéritos feitos a um painel de diretores de obra, confirmou a sobreposição das áreas de atuação e o potencial aparecimento de um risco de conflito de lideranças entre os intervenientes em estudo.
Purpose: The project direction versus the project management under the project direction point of view, on the Construction / Industry sector in Portugal. The emergence of a new stakeholder, the project manager, in the Construction and Industry sector in Portugal has been in the professional environment a subject of discussion and analysis. What is questioned professionally is the way in which the insertion of the project manager will be done with his functions, in a stage where historically there has been stakeholders that at least partially exercised them. Among these stakeholders stands out the project director (construction manager) whose coordination functions, at least apparently, seem to coincide with those of the project manager. The purpose of this dissertation is to address this apparent overlapping of functions from the point of view of the project director. As objectives the dissertation intends to assess the areas of overlap, to equate the relations of leadership and to characterize the technical competences that both the stakeholders must possess. The results obtained from a qualitative analysis of surveys carried out on a panel of project directors, confirmed the overlapping of the areas and the potential emergence of a risk of leadership conflict among the studied stakeholders.
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Kirchev, Filip, and Malin Bartoschek. "Labor Productivity Influence in the Construction Industry : An interpretive approach to project success." Thesis, Jönköping University, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52715.

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The construction sector is one of the most important industries for the economy in Sweden. Between 2010 to November of 2020, there has been an increase in employment in the construction industry by 35.4 percent. In 2019 the Swedish construction sector was valued at EUR 53.3 billion, where the construction sub-sector makes up 47.6 percent (European Construction Sector Observatory - Country profile Sweden, 2020). The construction industry is a fundamental part of society, whereas labor productivity, which represents the quantity of work performed per hour (Park 2006), is a vital element in the process of construction. Gunduz et al. (2020) state that labor consumes a significant amount of cost in construction projects, thus labor productivity is a determinator of cost optimization i.e., the process of making something as good or effective as possible (Cambridge Online Dictionary, n.d.). The benefit of productivity is seen as reduced construction time and cost (Fox, Marsh & Cockerham, 2010). Moreover, a lack of effective management activity towards construction resources can potentially decrease labor productivity. Thus, the familiarity of project managers with labor productivity factors is of major importance (Shehata & El-Gohary, 2011) and contributes to project success (Gunduz & Abu-Hijleh, 2020).

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SILVA, ANDERSON FERREIRA DA. "CONSTRUCTION PROCESS POLICY ON DRUGS AND SEASDH AS HIS MANAGER IN THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO FROM 2007." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=21545@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
O presente estudo tem como objetivo realizar uma análise genealógica do discurso oficial sobre drogas no Rio de Janeiro, a partir do realinhamento da Política Nacional Antidrogas parentese PNAD barra2002 parentese e da inserção do Conselho Estadual Antidrogas parenteseCEAD prentese na estrutura da Secretaria de Estado de Assistência Social e Direitos Humanos parentese SEASDH prentese. Tendo por base a teoria foucaultiana sobre poder barra saber, realizamos uma pesquisa documental no acervo do CEAD sob a ótica das seguintes análises: a construção do discurso sobre drogas e sua inserção em regimes de verdade; a formulação do discurso sobre drogas em território brasileiro e o processo de aproximação, no Rio de Janeiro, entre a SEASDH e o realinhamento da PNAD barra 2002. As conclusões apontam para a manutenção de diversos elementos do caráter antidrogas no discurso oficial brasileiro e para um descompasso entre a política nacional e a estadual, que passa por processo de adequação aos preceitos de Política Pública estabelecidos pela Constituição Federal de 1988.
The present study aims to conduct a genealogical analysis of official discourse on drugs in Rio de Janeiro, from the realignment of National Anti-Drug Policy PNAD/2002 and the insertion of the State Council Anti-Drug CEAD in the structure of the Secretariat of State Social Welfare and Human Rights SEASDH. Based on the Foucault´s theory - power / knowledge - conducted documentary research in the archives of CEAD with the following analytical perspectives: the construction of discourse about drugs and their inclusion in systems of truth; formulation of discourse about drugs in Brazil and in the process approach, in Rio de Janeiro, between SEASDH and realignment of PNAD/2002. The conclusions point to the maintenance of various elements of the official Brazilian anti-drug discourse and a mismatch between National and state politics, which undergoes a process of adaptation to the precepts of Public Policy established by the Constitution of 1988.

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Prince, Michael William. "Strategic planning in construction firms : perceptions and personal characteristics of the manager, strategic planning behaviour, and subjective performance in a large scale survey of the Canadian construction industry." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385648.

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Patterson, Donald A. "An Investigation of Project Delivery Methods Relating to Repetitive Commercial Construction." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4218.

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The Design/Bid/Build (DBB) delivery method has historically been the most popular and the most effective means of determining the least cost for building a project based upon a set of construction documents. In recent years, however, other project delivery methods, including but limited to Construction Manager/General Contractor (CM/GC) and Design/Build (DB), have slowly taken a share of the construction market away from the DBB delivery method. The choice of delivery method that will produce the best value for an owner in the measurements of efficiency in quality, cost, and timeliness depends upon the type of project and the business culture of the project owner. A unique opportunity for a comparative study was presented by the Meetinghouse Facilities Department (MFD) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The MFD completed over 200 repetitive meetinghouse projects in the U.S. over a five-year period (1999-2003), contracting approximately two-thirds of the projects using a CM/GC delivery method with an attached partnering agreement. The remaining meetinghouses were contracted using a DBB delivery method. A comprehensive comparison was conducted measuring all of the efficiencies created by the selection of delivery method, including short- and long-term costs, direct and indirect costs, construction cycle time, and quality assessment scores. After identifying and then adjusting for several confounding variables in the historical data, the statistical analysis provided evidence that the CM/GC delivery method proved to be the best value for the MFD by producing a total cost savings of over 5.5 percent on the meetinghouse projects when compared to the DBB meetinghouse projects. Construction cycle time was 20% shorter on the CM/GC meetinghouse projects and quality assessment (QA) scores were consistently higher. In regards to a 10-year life cycle repair costs, the CM/GC delivery method produced a higher quality meetinghouse, reducing repair costs by 34% when compared to the DBB meetinghouse projects.

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Sweet, Coretta A. "Comparison of module usage of project management information system and success rate of construction projects." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28204.

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Thesis (M. S.)--Building Construction, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009.
Committee Chair: Dr. Linda Thomas-Mobley; Committee Member: Dr. Daniel Castro; Committee Member: Prof. Kathy Roper; Committee Member: Ron L. Smith.

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Sadik, Faqé Bala, and Alnajjar Sanar Elias. "Kommunikation och resurseffektivisering i byggprojekt ur ett byggprojektledarperspektiv." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-297854.

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Byggprojekt är långa, dyra, resurskrävande och involverar ett stort antal människor som tillsammans jobbar mot ett gemensamt mål. Byggprojekt, likt andra typer av projekt som involverar ett större antal människor är beroende av en välfungerande kommunikation, framför allt när mycket pengar och tid står på spel. Byggprojektledare spenderar den större majoriteten av arbetstiden på att kommunicera och agera spindeln i nätet för att säkerställa att rätt information förmedlas till rätt individer och att alla som är involverade vet vad som är deras uppgifter under ett projekt. Syfte var att undersöka projektledarens roll i, och uppfattning av, kommunikationen inom ett byggprojekt. Vi undersökte byggprojektledarnas perspektiv om vad de främsta kommunikationsproblemen är i byggprojekt och vilka lösningar som är tillgängliga. En litteraturstudie inom kommunikationen i allmänhet men även i projekt och byggprojekt genomfördes. 15 byggprojektledare intervjuades i en rad semistrukturerade intervjuer. Valet av denna typ av intervjuer är baserade på den stora mängd data som kan samlas genom det men även öka chansen till att samla in mer spontana och personliga synpunkter. Slutsatserna för att effektivisera kommunikationen i byggprojekt är att öka transparensen i byggprojekt då det anses att det ska var tydligt för de involverade vad ändamålet och planen är vid varje kommunikationstillfälle. Denna ökade transparens minskar risken för missförstånd och den mänskliga faktorns bidragande till skador minskas; vilka är bland annat misstolkning och felaktig informering. För att minimera den mänskliga faktorns negativa påverkan på kommunikationen är det lönsamt på lång sikt för byggföretagen att erbjuda kurser och utbildning inom kommunikation samt att skapa en kommunikationsplan i ett tidigt skede inför varje projekt. De antalet digitala verktyg som används borde begränsas och standardiseras till ett verktyg som de ledande byggföretagen kommer överens om att använda; för att effektivisera kommunikationen.
Construction projects are long, expensive, resource-intensive and involve a large number of people cooperating towards a common goal. Construction projects, like other types of projects that involve a larger number of people, depend on well-functioning communication, especially when a lot of money and time is at stake. Construction project managers spend the greater majority of their working time communicating and acting as the spider in the web to ensure that the right information is conveyed to the right individuals and that everyone involved knows what their tasks are during a project. The purpose was to investigate the project manager's role in, and perception of, communication within a construction project. We examined the construction project managers' perspectives on what the main communication problems are in construction projects and what solutions are available. A literature study on general communication also on communication in projects and construction projects was conducted. 15 construction project managers were interviewed in a series of semi-structured interviews. The choice of this type of interview is based on the large amount of data that can be collected but it also increases the opportunity to attain more spontaneous and personal views. The conclusions for increasing communication efficiency in construction projects are to increase transparency in construction projects as it is considered that it should be clear to those involved what the purpose and plan is at each communication opportunity. This increased transparency reduces the risk of misunderstandings and reduces the contribution of the human factor to harm; which include misinterpretation and misinformation. To minimize the negative impact of the human factor on communication, it is profitable in the long term for construction companies to offer courses and training in communication and to create a communication plan at an early stage before each project. The number of digital tools used should be limited and standardized to a tool that the leading construction companies agree to use; to streamline communication.

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Abd, Al Sater Wissam. "Effektiv logistik med lossningskalender på byggarbetsplatsen." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-15340.

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För att arbetsledaren skall utveckla en logistikorganisation som fungerar mer än väl bygger detta alltid på att de interna logistikrutinerna är välfungerande. Rutinerna skall fungera om riktlinjer och stöd för arbetsledaren i alla typer av projekt. Studien syftar att studera NCC-projekt som använder och/eller inte använder det nya verktyget, lossningskalender, för att identifiera dess positiva resultat Studien använder en kvalitativ metod där författaren genomför intervjuer med 4 respondenter inom NCC. Resultatdelen består av tre kategorier efter bearbetning av insamlade data, dessa är: Effektivisering, Dokumentering och Stöd för arbetsledning. Elektroniska logistikverktyg som lossningskalendern är av stor betydelse för arbetsledaren och kan vara avgörande i kvalitén i samtliga byggprojekt.
Logistics has long been a topic for discussion that has recently gained more attention. In order for the supervisor to develop a logistics organization that works more than well, this always means that the internal logistics routines are well functioning. The procedures should work on guidelines and support for the supervisor in all types of projects. The study aims to study NCC-projects that use and / or do not use the new tool, release calendar, to identify its positive results. The study uses a qualitative method in which the author conducts interviews with 4 respondents within NCC. The result consists of three main categories processing collected data, these categories are: Efficiency, documentation and Support for work management. Electronic logistics tools like the unloading calendar are of great importance to the supervisor and can be decisive in the quality of all construction projects.

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Roxner, Disa. "Att hantera hållbarhet i byggprojekt : En kvalitativ studie från ett projektledarperspektiv." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan (from 2013), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-78971.

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Det har blivit allt viktigare för organisationer och deras projekt att hantera hållbarhet. Tidigare studier har till störst del fokuserat på hållbarhet och projektledning som separata forskningsområden, vilket medför att det krävs mer förståelse relationen mellan områdena. Med hänsyn till byggbranschens omfattande miljöpåverkan studeras byggprojekt som en specifik kontext i den aktuella studien och syftet är att ta reda på hur hållbarhet i byggprojekt hanteras. Studien är av kvalitativ art där 11 projektledare från bygg- och fastighetsbranschen har intervjuats. Resultatet presenteras i fyra teman: (1) Vem bär ansvaret?, (2) Kunskap i centrum, (3) Kostnad, tid och hållbarhet i målkonflikt och, (4) Prioriteringar. Studien visar att projektledare har en upplevelse av att det är många hållbarhetskrav som ska hanteras och att det medför många aspekter att ta hänsyn till. Arbetet med att hantera hållbarhetskraven påverkas av kunskap, ekonomi och tid samt tendensen av att hålla andra parter i och kring projekten ansvariga för att förbättra hållbarheten i byggprojekt. Av studien framkommer det att projektledarens roll, ansvar och kunskap om projektledning är faktorer som genomsyrar hur hållbarhetskrav i byggprojekt hanteras. För att främja och förbättra byggprojektens hållbarhet behöver projektledare ta större ansvar för hållbarhetsarbetet samt fördjupa sina projektledningskunskaper, för att bättre kunna styra arbetet och prioritera mellan olika krav.
The importance for organizations and projects to adopt sustainability has increased. Previous research has so far mainly treated sustainability and project management as separate research areas, resulting in a lack of understanding in the merged field of sustainable project management. Therefore, is sustainable project management a research area of interest and the context of this study is construction projects, considering the significant environmental impact of the construction industry. The aim of this thesis is research how sustainability is manged in construction projects This qualitive study includes interviews with 11 project managers in the construction- and real estate sector. The result consists in four themes: (1) Who´s responsible?, (2) The power of knowledge, (3) Conflict between time, money and sustainability, and (4) Priorities. The study shows that the project managers have numerous sustainable requirements to acknowledge, which lead to managers having many different aspects in consideration during the project. Four factors were identified to impact the sustainable work in construction projects; economics and time, knowledge, and a tendency to hold other stakeholders responsible for the sustainability outcomes. The results establish the importance of project managers’ responsibility of projects’ sustainability, as well as knowledge of project management. Therefore, in order to improve the sustainability of construction projects, project managers need to take more responsibility of the sustainability work and deepen their knowledge of project management to manage the projects better and prioritize between different requirements.

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Nilsson, Elina, and Kandan Bakhtiar. "En studie om digital avstämning av tidplan." Thesis, KTH, Byggteknik och design, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-213401.

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Enligt undersökningar som har gjorts konstateras att digitala verktyg används mindre inom byggsektorn i jämförelse med andra branscher. Den digitala utvecklingen är viktig för hur byggbranschen kommer att se ut i framtiden. I nuläget finns ett intresse för att öka användningen av digitala verktyg från byggföretaget Skanska. En mobil version av tidplaneringsprogrammet Asta Powerproject finns på marknaden, nämligen Site Progress. Site Progress används för att stämma av projektets aktiviteter via mobila enheter. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur en digital avstämning av tidplan går till genom att använda Site Progress. Vidare analyseras applikationens användarvänlighet och målet är att komma fram till om Site Progress skulle kunna implementeras i kommande projekt. I studien genomförs en undersökning på projekt Kvarteret Trollhättan 31, som är en om- och tillbyggnation av kontor. I början av undersökningen observerades hur avstämningen går till i nuläget på projektet. Därefter genomfördes samma avstämning med det digitala verktyget Site Progress. Undersökningen avslutades med kvalitativa intervjuer i syfte att ta del av produktionsledarnas tankar om det nuvarande arbetssättet samt deras inställning till införande av Site Progress. Studien resulterar i att Site Progress medför att avstämning sker direkt på plats och att all dokumentation hamnar på en enhet. I nuläget går det ej att tilldela fler personer på en och samma summa i Site Progress Manager, detta kan försvåra arbetet med avstämning. För att Site Progress ska implementeras i arbetet med avstämning av tidplan krävs justeringar för att åtgärda verktygets brister.

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Nyberg, Josefine, and Linda Rigby. "Arbetsledarrollen idag : En fallstudie av arbetsledarrollen på ett stort entreprenadföretag." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-231751.

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Idag sker flera förändringar inom byggbranschen. De senaste decenniernas utveckling inom teknik och miljö har fått allt större fokus och det finns idag idéer inom branschen att effektivisera den med hjälp av digitalisering och ny teknik. En annan förändringsprocess i byggbranschen som sker idag gäller den allmänna attityden och företagskulturen. Den starka machokulturen försöker successivt arbetas bort samt förekomsten av mutor. För att genomföra dessa förändringar på ett lyckat sätt spelar mellanchefer en betydande roll och en roll inom byggbranschen som kan liknas vid denna är arbetsledaren. Få studier har däremot gjorts angående arbetsledarrollen och dess innebörd. Denna studie syftar därför till att skapa en större förståelse och en fördjupad kunskap om arbetsledarrollen idag och vad den innebär. Framförallt vill författarna förstå rollen ur arbetsledarens perspektiv. Studien är därför baserad på observationer och intervjuer av sex arbetsledare. Resultatet av studien visar att arbetsledarrollen idag är mer lik än vad som tidigare upplevts och innefattar en mängd liknande uppgifter. Det finns en röd tråd med en liknande struktur där det huvudsakliga ansvarsområdet är att driva produktionen framåt, vilket görs genom att leda yrkesarbetarna, samverka med berörda parter samt hantera problem och hinder som uppstår. Mer generellt innefattar rollen kommunikation, motivation samt planering och är en länk mellan flera nivåer i en organisation och en nyckelroll i förändringsprocesser. Rollen innefattar idag en majoritet av reaktiva arbetsuppgifter. De uppgifter som flest anser värdeskapande är dock de proaktiva, där planering utmärker sig extra. Den största utvecklingen av rollen som observerats är inom ledarskapet, då rollen under senare tid gått mot ett mjukare, mer coachande ledarskap. En av de största framtida utmaningarna inom rollen är att förändra rollen och arbeta mer proaktivt istället för reaktivt, att få en bättre struktur på dagarna. Framtida utveckling inom rollen handlar därför till stor del om att försöka styra rollen mot en mer strukturanpassad roll än dagens situationsanpassade. En annan utmaning för arbetsledarna är att prioritera mellan sina arbetsuppgifter. Att hitta en bra balans och avvägning mellan ute och inne, mellan ledning och yrkesarbetare samt mellan att ha full kontroll och att våga lita på och släppa saker till andra yrkesgrupper i produktionen.
Today the construction industry is going through some major changes in several fields. The past decades development in technology and sustainability has been given larger focus and a desire to use this to improve and make the industry more efficient has developed. Another huge change has been recognized in the general culture in the industry. The industry has for a long time been tinged by male dominance and a “macho culture” which has gradually been changed. Former common occurrence of bribery is another aspect that the industry is currently trying to get rid of. To be able to successfully carry out these changes the role of the middle manager is important and within the construction industry this middle manager can be seen as the construction foreman. However, there has been few studies based on the role of the construction foreman. The purpose of this study is therefore to create a deeper understanding and knowledge about the role and what it involves. Above all, the writers are interested in understanding the role from the foreman's perspective. The study is therefore based on observations and interviews from six construction foremen at six different projects. The results from the study shows that the role of a construction foreman is more alike than first assumed. It includes a sample of similar tasks and there is a common pattern and structure that makes the role able to define. The main responsibility is to make sure that the construction runs smoothly which is done by leading the workers, collaborate with other parties within the organisation and handle problems that occur. More general, the role includes communication, motivation, planning and acting as a link between different levels in the organisation. The majority of the tasks is reactive, while the tasks that most of the foreman consider value creating is proactive. The biggest changes in the role that has been observed is connected to the leadership. The role has moved towards a softer more coaching form of leadership compared to the previous authoritarian. One of the biggest challenges within the role is to move it towards a more proactive approach instead of today's reactive approach and thus get an even better structure throughout the day. Future development of the role is therefore most likely about trying to steer the role in this direction, trying to impose a bit more structure. Another challenge is to learn to prioritize between different assignments. To find a good balance between outside and inside, between the management and the workers and between having full control and leaving some responsibility to others.

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Lund, Sofia, and Felicia Selle. "Arbetsledarrollen : påverkan av bristande praktisk erfarenhet hos nyexaminerad byggnadsingenjör." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Byggnadsteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-29632.

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Purpose: The construction industry is facing changes as academic education is becoming more common. Practical competence will be lost as newly graduated civil engineers often lack practical experience. As the industry is characterized by a clear identification and where a common view is that "you ought to have experience from construction work", this change is problematic. This study focuses on the supervisors role, where the aim of the report is to analyze how newly graduated civil engineers handle the lack of practical experience. Method: In order to achieve the objective of the study, the supervisor role has been studied at two large construction companies. To get a deep and fair view of the role, site managers and construction workers, together with supervisors with both practical experience and theoretical background have been studied. The nature of the study is qualitative where empirical data has been collected through interviews, observation, and analysis of internal company documents. Findings: The analysis is that the supervisors’ role is characterized by a certain number of tasks and operations. From these, connections can be made to how management should be handled, and the characteristics required in such operations. The last part includes collective identification within the industry and its pressure on the role. From these aspects the result is summarized. The affect is that newly graduated civil engineers require a more analytical and information seeking mindset when lacking practical experience. Implications: The conclusion of this study is that practical experience is an advantage in the role of supervisor, and that it is important to give the chance for supervisors to gain practical experience. In compensation for the lack of practical experience of newly graduated civil engineers, they instead have an analytical and information- seeking mindset. They also possess basic knowledge of the complete building process. The characteristics that are more important to focus on than experience are: having commitment, clarity in communication, clear structure and sense of initiative. The critical factors for leading the construction production is to disseminate information, take initiative, react to unexpected crises and allocate resources. Limitations: The study focuses on the role of supervisor at two major construction companies. If the study had also included smaller construction companies, a wider and more general conclusion of the role at large, could have been made. The study would be improved if more observations were possible to implement. To also observe the role from different occupational groups, other aspects and a wider analysis would have been possible to conduct. Keywords: Supervisor’s role in construction industry, Mintzberg's leadership roles, first-line manager, practical experience/academic education, collective identity.
Syfte: Byggbranschen står inför en del förändringar då akademisk utbildning blir allt vanligare. Praktisk kompetens går förlorad då nyexaminerade byggnadsingenjörer ofta saknar praktisk erfarenhet. Då branschen präglas av en tydlig identifiering och samhörighet där ”man ska ha varit ute i produktionen”, blir denna förändring problematisk. Denna studie fokuserar på arbetsledarrollen där målet med rapporten är att analysera hur nyexaminerade byggnadsingenjörer hanterar bristande praktisk erfarenhet. Metod: För att uppnå målet med studien har arbetsledarrollen studerats på två större byggföretag. Platschefer och yrkesarbetare samt arbetsledare med både praktisk erfarenhet och teoretisk bakgrund har studerats för att få en djup och rättvis bild av rollen. Studien är av kvalitativ karaktär där empirisk data har samlats in i form av intervjuer, observation och analys av företagens interna dokument. Resultat: Analysen är att arbetsledarrollen präglas av ett visst antal arbetsuppgifter och arbetsmoment. Utifrån dessa kan tydliga kopplingar dras till hur ledandet bör ske och vilka egenskaper som krävs i samband med dessa moment. Sista delen innefattar den kollektiva identifieringen inom branschen samt dess påtryckningar på rollen. Från dessa aspekter sammanfattas resultatet till att arbetsledarrollen påverkas genom att nyexaminerade byggnadsingenjörer kräver ett mer analytiskt och informationssökande tänk vid avsaknaden av praktisk erfarenhet. Konsekvenser: Slutsatsen är att praktisk erfarenhet är en fördel i rollen som arbetsledare, samt att det är av vikt att ge arbetsledare möjligheten till ökad praktisk erfarenhet. Som kompensation för den bristande praktiska erfarenheten hos nyexaminerade byggnadsingenjörer har de en helhetsbild över byggprocessen samt att de i större utsträckning söker upp och analyserar information. De egenskaper som är viktigare att fokusera på än erfarenhet är engagemang, tydlighet, struktur och initiativtagande. Samt de avgörande faktorerna för att leda byggproduktionen är att kunna sprida information, ta initiativ, agera vid oväntade kriser, samt fördela resurser. Begränsningar: Studien fokuserar på arbetsledare vid två större byggföretag. Om studien även hade omfattat mindre byggföretag hade bredare och mer generella slutsatser för rollen i stort kunnat göras. Studien hade förbättrats om fler deltagande observationer hade varit möjligt att genomföra. Att även observera rollen utifrån olika yrkesgrupper hade kunnat bidra till andra aspekter i analysen. Nyckelord: Arbetsledarrollen i byggbranschen, Mintzbergs ledarroller, första linjens chef, praktisk erfarenhet/akademisk utbildning, kollektiv identitet.

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Josse, Walid, and Borhan Hosseini. "Platschefens arbete i total- och generalentreprenad." Thesis, KTH, Byggvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-174833.

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Problemformulering: Hur påverkas platschefen i sitt arbete i ett byggprojekt utifrån entreprenadformerna total- och generalentreprenad? Hur kan platschefens arbete utformas och avgränsas för att förbättra ledningen av ett byggprojekt utifrån aktuell entreprenadform? Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur platschefens arbete påverkas av total- och generalentreprenad och sedan presentera förslag på hur det kan utformas utifrån aktuella entreprenadformer. Metod: Metoden är en kvalitativ analys. Intervjuer är huvudsakliga tillvägagångssättet och sju platschefer och en affärsområdeschef har intervjuats. Litteraturstudier av tidigare examensarbeten och forskningsrapporter samt skrifter och artiklar från branschen har studerats. Slutsatser: Det finns viktigare faktorer för platschefens arbete än själva entreprenadformen i sig. Dessa är bl.a. kvaliteten på handlingarna, projektets storlek, arbetslagets erfarenheter och sammansvetsning, den egna organisationen och tillgängliga stödresurser samt platschefens egna erfarenheter och kunskaper. Entreprenadformen är dock inte utan betydelse. I en totalentreprenad bör platschefen ges möjlighet till att delta i projekteringen för att kunna bidra med sina praktiska byggkunskaper och styra handlingarna mot att bli produktionsvänligare. I en generalentreprenad bör en organisation för hantering av ÄTA-arbeten finnas då det tar mycket tid från platschefen och entreprenören tappar pengar på ÄTA eftersom dem generellt är dåliga på att ta betalt för ÄTA.
Problem: How is the job of the site manager effected by the contract forms turnkey and general contract? How can the work of the site manager be designed and defined based on the contract form? Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to study how the site managers’ work is effected by turnkey and general contract and to present suggestions on how the site managers’ work can be designed based on the contract form. Method: The method is qualitative analysis. Interviews are the main approach and seven managers and a business area manager were interviewed. Literature studies of previous theses and research papers as well as publications and articles from the construction industry have been studied. Conclusion: There are more important factors for site managers’ work than the contract form itself. These include the quality of the drawings and documents, the size of the project, the work teams’ experience and how well they function as a team, the organization and the available support resources and the site managers’ own experience and knowledge. The contract form is however not without significance. In a turnkey, the site managers should be given the opportunity to participate in the project design and planning in order to contribute with their practical building skills and guiding documents to be more construction-friendly. In a general contract there should be an organization for the management of CAW because it takes a lot of time from the site manager and entrepreneurs lose money on CAW because contractors generally are bad at charging for CAW.

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Jorild, Johan, and Alexander Kovalonok. "PLATSCHEFENS FÖRMÅGA ATT ÖKA PRODUKTIVITETEN - en jämförande studie av fyra arbetsplatser hos Peab -." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för naturvetenskap och teknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-36193.

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studier visar en låg produktivitet jämfört med andra branscher men också komplexiteten av produktivitetsmätningar. Syftet med rapporten är att undersöka platschefens roll och vilka faktorer som påverkar förmågan att få ut produktiviteten på en byggarbetsplats. Fallstudien genomfördes på fyra av Peabs projekt och frågeställningen besvarades med hjälp av kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder i form av intervjuer och enkätundersökningar. Vidare undersöks produktivitetspåverkande faktorer såsom kommunikation, motivation, kompetens och samarbete. Vid jämförelse används en incitamentkvot som ställs i relation till enkätundersökningarna och intervjuerna. Resultatet visar tydliga skillnader mellan platschefernas förmågor, arbetssätt och egenskaper som leder till en skillnad i produktivitet på arbetsplatserna. Slutsatsen visar vilka egenskaper och arbetssätt som tenderar i att ge en hög produktivitet.
The construction industry has been criticised for lacking productivity. Previous reports and studies show a low productivity compared to other industries but also the complexity of productivity measurement. The report aims to examine the site manager's role and the factors that affect the ability to get out productivity on a construction site. The case study was conducted on four of Peab's projects and the issues were answered using qualitative and quantitative methods such as interviews and surveys. Factors that affect productivity such as communication, motivation, competence and cooperation are further investigated. As comparison, an incentive quota imposed in relation to the questionnaires and interviews, are applied. The results show clear differences between site managers' abilities, methods and qualities that lead to a difference in productivity in the workplace. The conclusion shows what qualities and methods that tend to give a high productivity.

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Pětroš, Ondřej. "Motivace a etické otázky ve stavebním podniku." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-227685.

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This thesis deals with motivation and ethics in the construction industry. The goal of this thesis is to determine the level and potential specifics of motivation and ethics in the construction company. The theoretical part is focused on explanation of basic terms related to the topic. In the practical part of the thesis hypotheses are set, and their correctness is verified through a questionnaire survey and supplemented by a directed interview. Questionnaires are destined for construction companies and direct interviews are conducted in the form of semi-structured interviews with the staff of construction companies. Based on this the hypotheses are then confirmed or disproved. Furthermore, based on these surveys, conclusions and recommendations that would help to improve the situation in construction companies are deduced.

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Demaret, Julie. "Le processus de construction de légitimité des contrôleurs de gestion." Phd thesis, Université François Rabelais - Tours, 2014. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00997829.

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Cette thèse examine comment se construit et évolue la légitimité individuelle du contrôleur de gestion en situation dans l'organisation. Dans un premier temps, un cadre conceptuel est élaboré pour permettre l'étude de la légitimité professionnelle individuelle d'un contrôleur de gestion. Est en particulier mise en évidence la présence de natures et de sources de légitimité distinctes, sur lesquelles se fondent les stratégies de légitimation des contrôleurs. La recherche se fonde sur des études de cas multiples réalisées sur trois terrains distincts. Elle permet de dégager des trajectoires individuelles de construction de légitimité. L'analyse transversale des cas révèle les mécanismes collectifs qui peuvent orienter les trajectoires. Elle détaille les mécanismes d'évaluation qui conduisent les trajectoires à être fructueuses, mais aussi infructueuses. Elle démontre également " l'attraction " que les pressions institutionnelles exercent sur ces trajectoires individuelles de construction de légitimité.

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Aldebe, Wesam, and Yacine Tararbit. "Tids- och kostnadseffektivisera byggproduktionen : Slöserier och störningar." Thesis, KTH, Byggteknik och design, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-231564.

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Största utmaningen byggindustrierna har i dagens läge är att reducera onödiga kostnader och onödigt arbete samt att effektivisera arbetet i form av tid och pengar. Detta är en fråga och en undersökning som gjorts ett flertal gånger under de senaste åren eftersom att det är ett stort problem inom de flesta byggbranscher. Denna rapport är skriven i uppdrag av Peab i syfte att identifiera slöserierna och kritiska störningar, för att sedan ta fram åtgärdsförslag för att reducera slöseriet av tiden och kostnaderna för framtida projekt Fyra olika, slutförda anläggningsprojekt har undersökts i uppdrag av Peab belägna i Stockholm. Dessa projekt omfattar ombyggnad av en vägkorsning samt nybyggnad av gång- och cykelbanor. Dessa fyra projekt varierar i omfattning och ger en mer varierad resultat i jämförelse med fyra stycken liknande projekt. Faktainsamlingen för detta arbete har mestadels omfattat lean construction med de olika sorters slöseri som finns i byggbranschen samt de olika principerna och metoderna lean construction omfattar, så som Just-In-Time. Andra studier gällande byggprocessen har även gjorts, mer specifikt produktions skedet. Skillnaden mellan värdeskapande och icke värdeskapande tid har behandlats, samt angående riskhanteringen och hur en riskhantering genomförs. Intervjuer har även genomförts i syfte att identifiera de mest kritiska slöserierna och störningar. Fakta framtagen från intervjuerna har redovisats i resultatet. Där framkom det att de fyra mest kritiska slöserierna var fel- och omarbeten, väntetider, onödiga transporter och onödiga arbeten. Sammanfattningsvis har åtgärdsförslag med hjälp av lean construction, intervjuer samt kunskap från denna rapport framtagits för att minska på dessa störningar och slöseri med hjälp av t.ex. Jidoka och PDCA för att öka tids- och kostnadseffektiviteten i produktionen. Kortfattat kan begreppet slöseri och störning definieras på olika sätt. Där slöseri är en aktivitet som inte bidrar med något till verksamheten, och en störning är ett moment som stör arbetet.
The biggest challenge construction companies are facing at the moment is reducing the unnecessary costs and labor as well as to streamline the work. This is a matter and an investigation that has been done multiple times in recent years because this is a major problem in most construction companies. This report is commissioned by Peab for the purpose of identifying wastes and critical disorders, then drafting action proposals to reduce waste of time and costs. Four different, completed construction projects have been investigated, commissioned by Peab, and are located in Stockholm. These projects include the reconstruction of a roadway intersection and new construction of pedestrian and cycle tracks. These four projects vary in scale, giving a more varied result compared to four very similar projects The gathering of information for this work has mostly included lean construction with the various waste in the work industry, as well as the different principles and methods of lean construction, such as Just-In-Time. Other studies on the construction process have also been made, more specifically the production phase, the planning of the work. The difference between value creation time and non-value creation time has been dealt with, as well as risk management and how to conduct a risk analysis. Interviews have also been conducted with the aim of identifying the most critical wastes and interferences. The gathering of facts from the interviews has been reported in the results. It emerged that the four most critical wastes were defects/rework, waiting, transportation and extra processing. In summary, action proposals using lean construction, interviews and the knowledge from this report have been developed to reduce these disturbances and wastages with help of for example Jidoka and PDCA to increase time and cost efficiency in the production process. In short, the concept of waste and disturbance can be defined differently. Waste is an activity that does not contribute anything to the business, and a disturbance is a matter of disturbing the work.

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Boström, Jenny, and Maria Danielsson. "En studie av byggnadsnämndens kontroll och tillsyn vid uppförande av flerbostadshus." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Technology and Design, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-5514.

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When a new building is constructed, or some changes are taking place in the already existing building, it is required according to PBL chapter 8 that the developer applies for planning permissions at the building committee in that municipality where the real estate is located. In the planning permission, the documents of the current building are examined.

The developer will appoint a quality manager that helps the developer to ensure that all necessary controls are done and that the requirements in these are met. The developer has the final responsibility to ensure that the building is built according to all requirements and rules. The building committee establishes a control plan that shows which controls have to be carried out and which certificates and documents have to be sent in during the time of the construction.

This study aims to finding out which documents that will be submitted at the construction of a new building, according to the laws found in PBL, if these documents are required and if they are examined of the municipalities before the building is approved.

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Fredriksson, Emma, and Jolin Lejonqvist. "Kvinnlig chef i byggbranchen : faktorer som utgör hinder till avancemang." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-19846.

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Background: Studies that have been made in male-dominated organisations shows that only few women have succeeded in advancing to the higher positions in all businesses. Statistics shows that merely 4 % of the managers in all building companies are female. The manager role has earlier always been classified as most suitable for men resulting in barriers for women who strive for management positions. This problem is now very renowned and is called the glass ceiling. To improve the current situation, both the organization's structure and culture, have to be modernized for more women to succeed and get the courage to get into the industry. More women in the construction industry would enrich many companies and widely expand its competence. Purpose: The thesis of this paper is to provide an understanding of how the factors structure, culture, family, networking and leadership contributes to the few female managers in the production part of the construction industry. We are going to explore how women managers, based on their own experiences, believe that these barriers can be reduced. Delivery: To fulfill our purpose we have chosen to do a qualitative study with a deductive approach. We have conducted four interviews with female managers or previous female managers at different construction companies. Results: We have established that both women themselves and the companies can increase women's chances to advance in the construction industry. Women can more easily reach a management position in the construction industry by adapting to the male culture, achieving a balance between family and work and gain networking contacts. Companies in the construction industry can increase the proportion of female managers by focusing on recruitment, organizational structure, work climate, mentoring, and by taking into account the woman's family. We also found that it is important to keep the women who already work in the industry to attract more women to enter there. It is important to have female role models in companies that can guide and be good examples for new employees. Increasing the proportion of women in the construction industry requires that the interest in structural engineering is increasing in young girls. By this there will be more female applicants for structural engineering courses in the university. To reduce problems and create opportunities for women to work in the construction industry more women would be able to advance in the business. It also would lead to the glass ceiling becoming much thinner and that it could be broken completely in the future.
Bakgrund: Studier genomförda på mansdominerade företag visar att det finns ytterst få kvinnor som lyckats avancera till de högre positionerna inom samtliga företag. Statistik visar att endast 4 % av cheferna i alla byggföretag i Sverige är kvinnor. Chefskapet har tidigare alltid klassats som mest lämpligt för män vilket har lett till att kvinnor som strävar efter chefspositioner hindras från att ta sig upp i hierarkin. Detta problem är idag mycket omtalat och kallas för glastaket. För att förbättra dagens situation måste både organisationens struktur och kultur moderniseras för att fler kvinnor ska lyckas och våga ta sig in i branschen. Fler kvinnor i byggbranschen skulle berika många företag och i stor utsträckning utöka dess kompetens. Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att skapa en förståelse kring hur faktorerna struktur, kultur, familjesituation, nätverk samt ledarskap bidrar till fåtalet kvinnliga chefer i den producerande delen av byggbranschen. Vi ska även undersöka hur kvinnliga chefer, utifrån egna erfarenheter, anser att dessa hinder kan reduceras. Genomförande: För att uppfylla vårt syfte har vi valt att göra en kvalitativ studie med en deduktiv ansats. Vi har genomfört fyra stycken besöksintervjuer, tre med kvinnliga chefer och en med en tidigare chef på fyra olika byggföretag. Resultat: Vi har konstaterat att både kvinnor själva och företagen kan öka kvinnors chans att avancera inom byggbranschen. Kvinnor kan lättare nå en chefsposition i byggbranschen genom att anpassa sig till den manliga kulturen, uppnå balans mellan familj och arbete och skaffa nätverkskontakter. Företagen i byggbranschen kan öka andelen kvinnliga chefer genom att fokusera på rekrytering, organisationsstruktur, arbetsklimat, mentorskap och genom att ta hänsyn till kvinnans familjesituation. Vi har även kommit fram till att det är viktigt att behålla de kvinnor som redan finns i branschen idag för att intressera fler kvinnor att söka sig dit. Det är viktigt att det finns kvinnliga förebilder i företagen som kan vägleda och vara goda exempel för nyanställda. För att öka andelen kvinnor i byggbranschen krävs det att intresset för byggteknik ökar hos unga tjejer för att sedan få fler kvinnliga sökande till byggtekniska utbildningar. Att reducera problemen och skapa möjligheter för kvinnor att arbeta i byggbranschen skulle göra att fler kvinnor kan avancera inom företagen. Detta skulle även leda till att glastaket blir betydligt tunnare och i framtiden skulle kunna brytas helt.

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Bernehjält, Matilda, and Isabella Carlbom. "How Global and Virtual Teams are Efficiently Managed by Project Managers : From a Construction Management Perspective." Thesis, KTH, Ledning och organisering i byggande och förvaltning, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-277050.

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The acceleration of globalisation has forced companies to cope with its propulsion in order to become more competitive and internationalised, an internationalisation that creates the importance of knowing how to manage global and virtual teams (GVT). The knowledge in the area today has shown to be vague, generalised and hard to grasp, especially for the unexperienced GVT-project manager. The purpose of this thesis is therefore to study whether the literature regarding how to manage a GVT corresponds with the perceptions in practice and how these findings can contribute to a more efficient project management approach. This study is examined using a qualitative method based upon literature and semi-structured interviews. This foundation is used to provide a deeper understanding of the subject as well as it puts this research questions into the proper context. The interview respondents are from the same organisation, however, from offices located in four different countries. The result shows that there are different perspectives on how GVTs should be managed efficiently, and that different leadership preferences exits. Furthermore, there exists a lot of possibilities, but also challenges that must be coped with in order to reach the team’s full potential. These challenges are connected to the virtual work settings and practical problems as well as the team's heterogeneity and communication structure. It was found that it is important to consider the purpose of the collaboration in order to strategically plan for its initiation and execution.
Globaliseringens acceleration har tvingat företag att hantera sin framdrift för att bli mer konkurrenskraftiga och internationaliserade, en internationalisering som vidare leder till vikten av att veta hur man ska hantera globala och virtuella team (GVT). Kunskapen i området idag har visat sig vara vag, generaliserad och svår att ta till sig, särskilt för den oerfarna GVT-projektledaren. Syftet med detta examensarbete är därför att studera huruvida uppfattningen om hur man ska hantera GVT skiljer sig mellan litteratur och i praktiken samt hur dessa upptäckter kan bidra till ett mer effektivt projektledningssätt. Denna studie undersöks med en kvalitativ metod baserad på litteratur och semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Grunden används sedan för att få en djupare förståelse av ämnet såväl som den sätter rapportens frågeställningar i rätt sammanhang. Intervjurespondenterna är från samma organisation, dock från kontor i fyra olika länder. Resultatet visar att det finns olika perspektiv på hur GVT ska ledas effektivt och att olika ledarskapspreferenser existerar. Dessutom finns det många möjligheter, men också utmaningar som måste hanteras för att nå teamets fulla potential. Dessa utmaningar är kopplade till virtuella arbetssätt och praktiska problem samt teamets heterogenitet och kommunikationsstruktur. Det konstaterades att det är viktigt att överväga syftet med samarbetet för att strategiskt planera för dess initiering och genomförande.

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Öström, Jenny. "Kvinna, chef, bibliotekarie. Triss i stereotyper?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-197235.

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Public libraries are mainly employing women and have female managers. According to theories based upon so-cial construction we create our roles together in our society. The role of a manager has for a long time been viewed as the role of a man. The objective of my thesis is to gain knowledge on how a few women that work as managers in public libraries perceive and describe their roles. A parallel aim is to let a few future librarians de-scribe their managers and their own views on leadership, with a focus on gender issues. My questions are the following, how do the women construct their roles as managers of public libraries?, how do the female students describe the role as a female manager of a public library, and their own managers?, can stereotype views and attributes be distinguished in my informants tales on leadership and gender?The starting point of this thesis is theories of social construction of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, the thought that we shape our world through social interaction, mainly through our language. The theories of Yvonne Hirdman, regarding gender power structure, offers the political backdrop for my thesis. Alice Eagly has re-searched around leader stereotypes, leadership styles and gender. From her and her peers I take with me theories that claim that the leader stereotype is gendered male.The material I have used to answer my questions are interviews with ten informants, all of them women working at public libraries, five of them managers and five students. I have conducted structured interviews with open questions that I have then looked at by means of a method where different factors are intertwined, mainly language, social situations, political factors and theory. All these then used to interpret the empirical evidence. The basis of the method is interpretation and reflection.I found that my informants construe an image of the role as a woman and a manager of a public library as a complex role that does not fall into one unambiguous gender stereotype. They describe their one manager roles and their managers with attributes and characteristics that in recent research has been assigned to both genders. I could nevertheless identify the use of strategies that according to Eagly et al is used by women in manager roles to prevent them from suffering negative criticism or other consequences solely because of the combination of their gender and position.

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Kočí, Zdeněk. "Formy a metody motivace ve stavebnictví." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-225658.

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This thesis on „Form and methods in construction“ is focused on satisfaction and motivation of employees from UNISTAV a.s. company. In theoretical part I focus on the most important and generally accepted theory of motivation. I also mention forms of motivation and also methods which can be used by managers in construction to challenge and stimulate their employees to perform better and to identify goals of individuals with goals of company. In the last part I introduce relevant information about studied company. As an example for empirical part of work, based on working hypothesis I created two questionnaires. On for ordinary customer and second one for managers. I also studied opinions on company communications and corporate culture in general. One of the main benefits of this thesis is, that it clearly defines weak and strong spots relative to the chosen topic. It also compares views of employees and their managers. From these findings I constructed series of solutions and recommendations. For convenience I show my findings in form of simple graphs.

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Sandlin, Darrell R. "A proactive design strategy for facility managers of laboratory environments." Thesis, Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004:, 2004. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-04022004-145554/unrestricted/sandlin%5Fdarrell%5Fr%5F200405%5Fms.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Building Construction, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.
Richard W. Trent, Committee Member; Felix T. Uhlik, Committee Member; Linda M. Thomas-Mobley, Committee Chair. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-81).

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Hasselgren, Elin. "Kontroll för ökad kvalitet - mallar för kontrollplan-PBL, egenkontroll samt riskanalys." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för bygg- energi- och miljöteknik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-9536.

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There are problems with poor quality, poor scheduling and poor working climate in the Swedish construction industry. Many parts have been involved, trying to solve the problem. This spring a new planning and building-law becomes final. In this law, the requirements set on the controls are greater. Hopefully this will lead to fewer construction errors. The requirements set on the working environment have also increased, forcing consultants and contractors to focus on safe workplaces. For each project requiring a building permit, an inspection plan has to been drawn. The inspection plan aims to ensure that the constructed building is operational. To ensure that the control plan is followed, self monitoring is performed. For each project, every designer also has to do a risk analysis to ensure a safe working environment. This report presents an investigation of stakeholders’ roles in the construction process. It also points out what by law should be controlled and against what. The result of the report is templates for control against PBL, self-monitoring plan and risk analysis.
Det finns stora problem med bristande kvalitet, dålig tidplanering och undermåligt arbetsmiljöklimat i den svenska byggbranschen. Detta problem är något som berörda parter lagt ner mycket tid på för att komma till rätta med. Som ett led i strävan mot kvalitetssäkring träder en ny Plan- och bygglag i kraft den 2 maj, som ökar kravet på innehåll i kontrollplaner, och därmed egenkontrollplaner. Arbetsmiljöfrågor har under senare år även de blivit mer aktuella med krav på byggarbetsmiljösamordnare och riskanalys. För samtliga projekt som kräver bygglov, rivningslov, marklov eller anmälan krävs en kontrollplan. Dessutom ska en egenkontrollplan samt en riskanalys finnas för samtliga projektörer i samtliga projekt. Riskanalyser ligger ofta till grund för val av lösningar eller omdirigeringar för att undvika personskador. I denna rapport redovisas en grundlig utredning av nyckelpersoners roll i kvalitets- och arbetsmiljöarbetet, samt vad som egentligen ska kontrolleras och mot vad. Nyckelpersonerna identifieras efterhand i rapporten. Resultatet av utredningen är förslag på utformning av mallar för kontrollplan-PBL, egenkontrollplan samt riskanalys.

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Branch, Harold Kenneth. "Strategies Construction Project Managers Use to Create Environmental Sustainability in Construction Projects." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6176.

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Senior construction project managers who fail to create strategies for environmental sustainability risk losing their competitive advantage in the business environment. Based on stakeholder theory, the purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the strategies that senior project managers use to implement environmental sustainability in their construction projects. Data were obtained from semistructured interviews with 4 senior project managers from 4 construction companies located in the midwestern region of the United States who implemented environmentally sustainable practices in their project processes. The data analysis process included methodological triangulation. The interviews were transcribed, interpreted, and coded to generate themes, which were validated through member checking and archival documentation. The centralized themes included (a) stakeholder engagement, (b) terminology, and (c) cost. Construction projects require the use of appropriate strategies for implementation of environmental sustainability in their project processes, lest project failure occurs. The use of stakeholder engagement principles, to strengthen environmental sustainability interests, creates shared concern and helps generate a roadmap for using environmentally sustainable business strategies. The implications for positive social change include the potential to affect business practices by contributing new knowledge to develop strategies that project managers can use for implementing environmentally sustainable practices. Environmentally sustainable construction practices will enhance the social practice of caring for the environment and create health and well-being.

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Larrabee, Richard A. "An analysis of mechanical and electrical construction competencies in the Wisconsin and Minnesota construction industry." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007larrabeer.pdf.

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Kammoun, Mohja. "L'utilisation de l'intuition dans la prise de décision du dirigeant de PME : proposition d'un modèle intégrateur." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO22012.

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L’objet de ce travail de recherche est de contribuer à l’étude du concept de l’intuition dans la prise de décision du dirigeant de PME et d’apporter un éclairage d’ordre théorique et praxéologique de cette notion dont les fondements conceptuels jusqu’à présent fournis demeurent largement controversés.En effet, les dirigeants de PME sont souvent décrits comme prenant les décisions de façon personnalisée possédant une autonomie décisionnelle (Julien et Marchesnay, 1988). Il est donc probable que les caractéristiques de la personnalité du dirigeant et sa dimension intuitive soient d’une grande importance dans la conduite d’une PME (Legohérel et al., 2003). Toutefois, peu de recherches empiriques existent et permettent d’étudier le recours à l’intuition dans les PME malgré la nature personnalisée de la prise de décision dans ces petites structures. Nous tentons alors, dans cette étude, de comprendre dans quelle mesure l’utilisation de l’intuition serait en mesure d’affecter la prise de décision du dirigeant de PME. En premier temps, nous identifions, à partir d’une étude qualitative auprès des 10 dirigeants de PME, les représentations que se font les dirigeants de l’intuition afin d’en proposer une définition opérationnelle et développer une échelle de mesure de l’intuition selon les préconisations de Churchill (1979).En deuxième temps, nous intégrons la variable intuition dans un modèle de recherche qui vise à intégrer, conformément à l’approche systémique, l’utilisation de l’intuition dans la prise de décision, ses déterminants (contexte et nature de la décision) ainsi que ses conséquences (performance perçue de la décision) dans un cadre général d’analyse. L’intérêt de cette modélisation systémique pour notre recherche réside dans le fait qu’elle permet une compréhension approfondie de l’utilisation de l’intuition à travers ses dimensions et l’analyse de cette notion dans sa globalité à travers ses déterminants et ses conséquences. Ce modèle est testé par une étude quantitative auprès de 178 dirigeants de PME dans le contexte tunisien. Les résultats de cette recherche montrent qu’il est possible de développer une mesure fiable et valide de l’utilisation de l’intuition dans la prise de décision. Ces derniers permettent d’entériner une structure bidimensionnelle de la notion d’intuition qui correspond à une personnalité ressentie et à une capacité à se représenter globalement la situation. Les résultats permettent également de supporter d’une part, l’influence de l’incertitude de l’environnement, l’origine et l’importance de la décision sur l’utilisation de l’intuition et, d’autre part, l’influence de l’utilisation de l’intuition sur la satisfaction de la décision du dirigeant de PME
The purpose of this research is to contribute to the study of the concept of intuition in decision making managers of SMEs and provide theoretical and praxeological lighting around the notion that the conceptual foundations up 'now provided remain largely controversial.Indeed, SME managers are often described as taking decisions individually with a decision-making autonomy (Julien et Marchesnay, 1988). It is therefore likely that the personality characteristics of the manager and intuitive dimension are of great importance in the conduct of an SME (Legohérel et al., 2003).However, little empirical research exists and used to study the use of intuition in SMEs despite the personalized nature of decision making in these small structures. We will try in this study to understand how the use of intuition would be able to affect the decision of the manager of SMEs. First, we identify, from a qualitative study of 10 manager of SME, representations that are the leaders of intuition in order to propose an operational definition and to develop a scale of intuition according to the recommendations of Churchill (1979).Second, we integrate the variable intuition in a research model that seeks to integrate, in accordance with the systemic approach, the use of intuition in decision making, its determinants (context and nature of the decision) and its consequences (perceived performance of the decision) in a general framework. The interest of this systemic modeling for our research is that it allows a thorough understanding of the use of intuition through its dimensions and the analysis of this concept as a whole through its determinants and consequences. This model is tested by a quantitative survey of 178 managers of SMEs in the Tunisian context.The results of this research show that it is possible to develop a reliable and valid measure of the use of intuition in decision making. These allow endorsing a two-dimensional structure of the concept of intuition which corresponds to an experienced personality and an ability to represent overall situation. The results also support the one hand, the influence of the uncertainty of the environment, the origin and importance of the decision on the use of intuition and, secondly, the influence of the use of intuition on the satisfaction of the decision of the managers of SMEs

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Brinkman, Trevor Joseph. "Constructing volatility surfaces for managed funds." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8530.

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In this dissertation, a methodology is developed for constructing a volatility surface for a managed fund by extending the work of Bakshi et al. (2003) and Taylor (2014). The power utility assumption (with constant relative risk aversion for a specific maturity) and historical returns series data are used for the identified factors in influencing the return of the fund and the fund itself. The coefficient of relative risk aversion for a specific maturity and market is estimated from quoted option prices on a market index. This is used in combination with the identified factors and fund return series to estimate the risk-neutral skewness of the fund. An optimisation procedure is then used to determine the volatility smile of the fund for a specific maturity. Thereafter, the volatility surface of the fund is constructed by repeating each step for different maturities. Although this methodology produces sensible results, the optimisation routine used is sensitive to initial values and constraints.

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