Title: Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution : An Evidence-Based Project Success Model Author: F.H. (Bud) Griffis, Francis X. DarConte, Frederick B. Plummer ISBN: 0367654253 / 9780367654252 Format: Soft Cover Pages: 374 Publisher: Routledge Year: 2022 Availability: 45-60 days
Description
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Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution provides a masterclass in the project and people management skills that set apart the most accomplished design and construction professionals. This textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students distils the insights gleaned over the authors’ decades of experience in academia and industry into actionable principles for success in a notoriously demanding field.
Combining real life case studies with original research, Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution points the way from the classroom to the jobsite. Interactive exercises allow readers to take the role of junior project managers and other emerging professionals and reason through the ethical dilemmas surrounding building projects from the initial bid to completion. Chapters on stakeholder alignment, productivity, and project success ensure that aspiring leaders’ business decisions are as economically sound as they are ethically correct.
From its accessible, conversational tone to the lifetime’s worth of construction wisdom it shares, Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution offers an extended mentoring session with three giants of the building industry.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Introduction to Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution
Part 1 : Leadership
Chapter 2 : Introduction to Leadership Chapter 3 : Principles of Leadership Chapter 4 : Techniques for Construction Leaders Chapter 5 : Leadership and Management Chapter 6 : Some Highlights of Leadership
Part 2 : Ethics
Chapter 7 : Personal Ethics Chapter 8 : Professional Ethics Chapter 9 : Business Conduct Chapter 10 : How to Make Better Ethical Decisions Chapter 11 : Leadership and Ethics
Part 3 : Project Execution
Chapter 12 : Project Delivery Chapter 13 : Aligned Project Delivery Chapter 14 : Leadership, Productivity, and Team Effectiveness Chapter 15 : Other Essential Elements of Project Execution Chapter 16 : Project Success