Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution : An Evidence-Based Project Success Model

Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution provides a masterclass in the project and people management skills that set apart the most accomplished design and construction professionals. This textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students distils the insights gleaned over the authors’ decades of experience in academia and industry into actionable principles for success in a notoriously demanding field.

Combining real life case studies with original research, Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution points the way from the classroom to the jobsite. Interactive exercises allow readers to take the role of junior project managers and other emerging professionals and reason through the ethical dilemmas surrounding building projects from the initial bid to completion. Chapters on stakeholder alignment, productivity, and project success ensure that aspiring leaders’ business decisions are as economically sound as they are ethically correct.

From its accessible, conversational tone to the lifetime’s worth of construction wisdom it shares, Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution offers an extended mentoring session with three giants of the building industry.

Preface

Chapter 1 : Introduction to Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution

Part 1 : Leadership
Chapter 2 : Introduction to Leadership
Chapter 3 : Principles of Leadership
Chapter 4 : Techniques for Construction Leaders
Chapter 5 : Leadership and Management
Chapter 6 : Some Highlights of Leadership

Part 2 : Ethics
Chapter 7 : Personal Ethics
Chapter 8 : Professional Ethics
Chapter 9 : Business Conduct
Chapter 10 : How to Make Better Ethical Decisions
Chapter 11 : Leadership and Ethics

Part 3 : Project Execution
Chapter 12 : Project Delivery
Chapter 13 : Aligned Project Delivery
Chapter 14 : Leadership, Productivity, and Team Effectiveness
Chapter 15 : Other Essential Elements of Project Execution
Chapter 16 : Project Success

Index