Management and Business Skills in the Built Environment

by Crook; Geoff

• ISBN13: 9780419195405
• ISBN10: 0419195408
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1995-06-18
• Publisher: Taylor & Franci

Summary

The third book in this series is written by a team of interdisciplinary teachers and professionals, led by Mike Waterhouse and Geoff Crook, is aimed at students and professionals in the built environment who wish to develop their management and business skills. In a rapidly changing world where techniques and custom and practice can date soon after discovery, where organisations are constantly changing shape and style to cope with rapid technological, economic, political and social change, there is a need for managers and built environment professionals who know how to learn, who are self-aware enough to know when they don't know, and who have the confidence and personal substance to be able to initiate the required learning activites when necessary.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Introduction
About this book
Managers and professionals	p. 3
Learning to learn	p. 14
Personal and self-management skills	p. 32
Working in teams	p. 61
Teams in action	p. 77
Problem solving and decision making	p. 92
Management and organizations	p. 119
The organization of business in the built environment	p. 138
Managing people in built environment organizations	p. 159
Management development and personal development	p. 175
Index	p. 197
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