Employee Resourcing in the Construction Industry: Strategic Considerations and Operational Practice

by Andrew Dainty, Ani B. Raiden, Richard Neale

Book Overview

Construction is one of the most challenging industrial environments for effective people management. It is characterised by geographically dispersed projects, production-oriented management styles, long working hours, high levels of staff turnover and employment practices grounded in the traditional 'personnel' paradigm. The employee resourcing function - recruitment, selection and deployment - is largely reactive and intuitive, and fails to draw...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138968714
• ISBN13: 9781138968714
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"