People and Organizational Management in Construction

This work offers an extended dictionary of key management concepts for students and professionals alike. It helps the reader, through an applied approach to management, to search for the most appropriate ways of improving their organization's performance and effectiveness. With the aid of case studies drawn from the construction industry, this title discusses key management issues including management theory, strategy, organization structure and design, culture, leadership, power, work groups, motivation and personal management.

System theory While the classical and human relations approaches were going their separate ways , the system approach to management evolved , which attempted to integrate these two earlier approaches ( see Fig . 2.1 ) .