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CHAPTER 1
Learning Outcomes
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WHAT IS PROJECT?
PROJECT DEFINITION AND CHARACTERISTIC
Specific
objectives
Risk and
Unique
uncertainty
PROJECTS
Managing
timeline
diversity
Managing
resources
The major characteristic of project :
An establish objectives
A defined lifespan with beginning and an end
Usually, involvement of several departments and
professionals
Typically, doing something that has never been
done before
Temporary organizations
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WHAT IS CONSTRUCTION?
Act of building
In project architecture and civil engineering, construction is
the building or assembly of any infrastructure on a site or
sites.
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What is management?
Management in business and human organization activity, in
simple terms means the act of getting people together to
accomplish desired goals.
Management process 9
Resources Mangement
Employees
Planning
Financial
Organising
Products
Leading
Location
Controlling
Information
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What is construction
management?
Identifying requirements
- Specific information through the organizational charts
and meet the need.
Efficiency:
A measure of how well resources are used to achieve a
goal.
Effectiveness:
A measure of a appropriateness of the goals chosen and
the degree to which they are achieved.
Managerial Functions
Henri Fayol was the first to describe the four managerial
functions when he was the CEO of a mining company in the
later 1800s.
Fayol noted managers at all levels operating in a for profit
or not for profit organisation, must perform each of these
functions:
Planning
Organising
Leading
Controlling
Planning
Planning is the process used by the managers to identify
and select appropriate goals and courses of action for an
organisation.
Top Managers
Middle Managers
First-line Manager
Non-management
Management Levels
Top Manager : Responsible for the performance of all
departments and have cross-departmental responsibilities.
Establish organisational goals monitor middle managers.
Example:???
Top
Managers
Middle
Managers
Line
Managers
managerial functions
Organising
controlling
planning
Leading
Top
manager
Middle
manager
First line
manager
0% Percent effort 100%
KEY MANAGERIAL ROLES 30
Monitor
Disseminator Informational
Spokesman
Entrepreneur
Disturbance handler
Resource allocator
Negotiator
Figurehead
Leader
Liason
Management Challenges
Increasing number
of global
organizations.
Building competitive
advantage through
Using new superior efficiency,
technologies. quality, innovation,
and responsiveness.
Increasing
Managing an performance while
increasingly diverse remaining ethical
work force. managers.
Why we need to have Project management for the construction
Project:
Two forefathers of project management are Henry Gantt, called the father of
planning and control techniques, who is famous for his use of the Gantt chart
as a project management tool; and Henri Fayol for his creation of the 5
management functions which form the foundation of the body of knowledge
associated with project and program management.
Specialisation/ Remuneration
division of labour. Centralisation
Authority with Chain / line of authority
responsibility Order
Discipline Equity
Unity of command Lifetime jobs (for good
Unity of direction. workers)
Subordination of Initiative
Individual Interests Esprit de corps
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915)
American industrial engineer, who originated
Scientific Management in business.
Scientific method to the management of workers
could improve productivity.
He assumed that:
- working systems were generally inefficient
because no-one had bothered to make
them efficient.
- workers were naturally inclined to be lazy
and inefficient.
Cont
Self-actualisation
personal growth and fulfilment
Esteem needs
achievement, status, responsibility, reputation
Safety needs
protection, security, order, law, limits, stability, etc