The tasks performed by a project manager are of special importance to the well being and economic prosperity of construction companies. This paper is aiming at defining the Greek project managers’ dominant cognitive abilities, personality characteristics, skills and knowledge. An effort is made to identify available attributes associated with successful management performance and career develop...

Objectives: Because of the high rates of accidents, the construction industry has become a hazardous industry in Iran and therefore paying more attention is required. This paper investigates safety management in construction companies for improving workers’ safety as one of the ergonomics aims. Methods: In order to survey the safety management in construction companies a questionnaire was pr...

This article proposes a system of indicators to evaluate the performance of companies in ergonomics for buildings. The system was developed based primarily on studies related to the performance evaluation of the construction industry and on Brazilian standards of ergonomics and work safety and had also the contribution of national and international indicators related to ergonomics, work safety,...

Construction industry accounts for a significant portion of world economic activities, especially in emerging economies where infrastructure developments are much needed. Construction industry is typically characterized as a labor-intensive and low-tech sector. Meanwhile, it is also the sector consistently found the least productive. Commonly cited reasons for such poor performance in this sect...

The paper discusses a unique Internet-based learning forum, Globalview.org (www.globalview. org), which involves the construction of international business plans for real companies seeking internationalisation. The purpose of global cases is to link student teams in international collaborative learning projects by empowering students to participate in setting learning goals and learning process...

Globalization, reliable infrastructure, culture and deregulation can be considered the most important conditions for the emergence of knowledge-based companies. Globalization helps companies broaden their views and experiences of successful and unsuccessful international forgiven learn. Knowledge is a humans’ asset and not be limited to geographical boundaries, then it is better that company’s ...