Journal of Management in Engineering: Recent submissions
Now showing items 2321-2340 of 2734
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A Project Management Training Program
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1999)In March 1998, the City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering, completed a nine-month training effort including over 30,000 hours of project management training for over 1,000 employees. This work documents the challenges ... -
Benchmarking and Enhancing Best Practices in the Engineering and Construction Sector
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This article provides a methodology to develop benchmarks and examine best practices within the United States' design and construction industry. The study data and conclusions are based largely upon the insights gained in ... -
Forum
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Implementation of Quality Improvement for Transportation Construction Administration
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1999)Quality improvement efforts in the Iowa Department of Transportation Offices of Construction have persisted for three years and it appears that they will continue for the foreseeable future. This paper explains how the ... -
Management-Driven Integration
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)The fragmentation of the architecture/engineering/construction (A/E/C) industry creates increased demand for coordination and integration of project participants. This paper provides practitioners with an increased ... -
ICRAM-1: Model for International Construction Risk Assessment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper presents a risk assessment model for international construction projects. The International Construction Risk Assessment Model (ICRAM-1) assists the user in evaluating the potential risk involved in expanding ... -
Is Your 401(k) Plan Hiding Serious Flaws?
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Valuing Relationship, Handling Risk
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How Effective Is Your Incentive Compensation System?
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)Recent surveys indicate that more than 75 percent of U.S. engineering firms provide some form of employee incentive compensation. But a study shows that salary only ranks fifth on the list of -
Project Dispute Resolution Satisfaction Classification through Neural Network
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)This paper presents an artificial neural network technique of analysis in determining the important factors affecting the outcome of construction dispute resolution processes in Hong Kong. Projects were classified as ... -
Better Decisions, Better Processes: Using Customer-Integrated Decision Making
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1999)As Spectra Precision, Inc., in Dayton, Ohio, embarked on a new Total Quality Management approach, it recognized a need to improve its product development process by getting more customer focused and integrated within all ... -
Development of Global Integrated Water Management Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1999)The global water crisis continues, caused primarily by a continued increase in population, environmental degradation and climatic variability complicated by potential changes in climate. Solutions to water problems can no ... -
Build Operate Transfer Municipal Bridge Projects in India
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1999)The build operate transfer scheme can be advantageously adopted by municipal administrations in India for implementing transport infrastructure projects, such as the construction of bridges, without undue strain on their ... -
In the Palm of Your Hand: Digital Assistants Aid in Data Collection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1999)Collecting construction inspection data helps owners document such things as quantities installed to justify progress payments, project field conditions, and project status. Inspection data have traditionally been recorded ... -
Budgeting for Facility Maintenance and Repair. II: Multicriteria Process for Model Selection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1999)The second of two in a series, this paper presents an objective process for selecting an appropriate model for facility maintenance and repair budgeting. Three model evaluation criteria relating facility attributes to ... -
Budgeting for Facility Maintenance and Repair. I: Methods and Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1999)Whether in the public or private sector, facility maintenance and repair is less tangible, less glamorous, and less immediate than many other uses of an organization's limited resources. The engineers who manage and operate ... -
Assessment of Organizational Change for Public Construction Organizations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1999)This paper explores change management for restructuring a public construction organization. The paper presents a model for organizational change and studies 20 change-management parameters for three engineering management ... -
Another Meeting? At the Right Time and for the Right Reason?
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Word for the Wary
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Maximum Impact: Organizing Your Presentation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1999)The outline has proven to be a useful organizational technique for preparing a presentation. This article discusses three approaches to constructing an outline, all of which address the issue of how many points and sub-points ...