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Construction Industry Literature Review

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This literature review illuminates how leadership and management skills may contribute to the construction industry. In order to provide well understanding to PMs, the literature review will divides into three different chapters for the exploration of leadership and management skills. In this chapter, we will focus mainly on the importance of leadership skills in a construction industry. There are series of books, articles or journals published in subject of leadership and management skills in regards with the construction industry. For instance, Appelo (2008) has created a list of books about leadership and management skills . Moreover, CEO.com (2013) has also listed out the top 24 Leadership books that everyone must read before you die. Apparently, …show more content…

According to Phelps (2001), back in the 1930s' social scientists determined that leadership is something people do and it is possibly something that people can learn to do. From the years after, many researchers have tried to invent and design many different type of leadership trainings based on their experience as the importance of leadership is getting more concern by many construction organizations. In South Florida, an investigation study of leadership style of PMs resulted that leadership skills is always one of the most important aspects of managing a project (Panthi et al., 2009). According to Earley and Weindling (2004), leadership provides the drive and direction to make the achievement whereas management is to control resources and make things happen. In addition, it also requires an effective evaluation, team development and planning to achieve the success. In summary, the introduction of this literature study asserts the importance of leadership is required to further developed in a construction industry. Thus, the main objective will be exploring the importance of leadership contributing to a construction industry as a PM. The next part will explain on the concepts of leadership in a construction …show more content…

Furthermore, leadership is also a process of directing the behaviour of the team members towards the project’s goals. It involves from planning stage to completion stage (Smit & Cronje, 2002). Generally, a project required leaders that can be entrusted to lead the project towards success of the project (Walker, 2007). In addition, Maxwell (1993) agreed and highlighted a few important

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