Journal of Management in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Case for Drug Testing of Construction Workers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)Drug use has been shown to have a negative affect on both job safety and productivity. Due to the high accident rates in the construction industry it is vital for management to take necessary steps to implement programs ... -
Strategic Management of Human Resources in Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)Human resource management in construction has typically been an emergent rather than a strategic or deliberate process. This has resulted in the infrequent use of comprehensive workforce management strategies in the industry. ... -
Exploiting Knowledge Management: The Engineering and Construction Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)Construction companies have always relied on their knowledge assets to provide services to clients. In recent years the terminology “knowledge management” has been introduced. Knowledge management (KM) seeks to formalize ... -
Superior–Subordinate Relationships in Korean Civil Engineering Companies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)The Leader–Member Exchange (LMX) relationship quality between superiors and subordinates in Korean civil engineering companies were empirically examined for superiors’ feedback-seeking behaviors. The results showed that ... -
Cash Flow Forecasting Model for General Contractors Using Moving Weights of Cost Categories
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)This research introduces the development of a project-level cash flow forecasting model from a general contractor’s viewpoint. While most previous models have been proposed to assist contractors in forecasting cash flow ... -
Project Management is a Capital Investment Process
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)The paper reviews the results of recent research work at UMIST, United Kingdom with a major global energy company that has an ongoing need for engineering based capital investment projects. The research studied the company’s ... -
Knowledge Management in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Consulting: A Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)The goal of knowledge management as a process is to improve the organization’s ability to execute its core business functions more efficiently and effectively. The key to knowledge management is capturing intellectual ... -
Nature of Engineering Consulting Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)Engineering consulting firms usually collect data such as cost and man-hour expenditures. Although these data help analyze project profit and productivity, they lack the information on the project nature to examine work ... -
Cost Control in Consulting Engineering Firms
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)Consulting engineering companies need an adequate cost control system to improve their profitability and productivity. Cost control enables the firm to make decisions if the measurements do not comply with the initial ... -
Closure to “ISO 14000 and the Construction Industry: Survey in China,” by S. X. Zeng, C. M. Tam, Z. M. Deng, and Vivian W. Y. Tam
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Optimal Planning and Scheduling for Repetitive Construction Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)This paper presents a multiobjective optimization model for the planning and scheduling of repetitive construction projects. The model enables construction planners to generate and evaluate optimal construction plans that ... -
Institutional Analysis of Infrastructure Problems: Case Study of Water Quality in Distribution Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)Civil engineers working with public infrastructure face institutional problems, but they are hard to explain and no effective methodology for analyzing them has been available to civil engineers. As applied to public ... -
Design Fees, the State of the Profession, and a Time for Corrective Action
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)Abstract: There has been considerable consternation over the years about the disintegration of the status of civil engineers, as well as significant distress over the profitability of engineering firms in view of a continuing ... -
Economic Value of Combined Best Practice Use
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)This paper measures the value of best practices based on data taken from the Construction Industry Institute Benchmarking and Metrics database. A three-step process provides the basis for measuring the potential benefits ... -
ASCE <i>Journal of Management in Engineering</i>: Review of the years 1985–2002
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)This study considers the content of the papers published by ASCE’s -
Enablers That Help Foreign Architectural, Engineering, and Construction Firms Win Construction Contracts in China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)With China’s fast economic growth and entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), more foreign architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms are expected to venture into this huge and attractive market. This ... -
Multiple-Criteria Evaluation for Value Management in Civil Engineering
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)This paper presents a fuzzy set-based approach for representing and synthesizing information about the different kinds of variables involved in the evaluation of a project’s value. The variables considered can be quantitative ... -
Structural Equation Model of Trust and Partnering Success
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)The establishment of trust has been identified as the most critical factor that facilitates partnering success. As such, management should direct their efforts and energy to enhance trust effectively and systematically. ... -
Integrated Framework to Investigate Value Innovations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)A conceptual framework has been developed to investigate value innovations within construction companies. A visual metaphor has been defined to model the innovation system where the elements of the model are objectives, ... -
Material Control System for the Manufactured Housing Industry
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)A manufactured home is a factory-built house constructed in a controlled factory environment according to federal standards known as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) code. The manufactured home shares ...