INSTITUTION: KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY‚ KUMASI DEPARTMENT: BUILDINGTECHNOLOGY NAME: PHILIP QUAQUE AHIABOR PROGRAMME: QSCE 4 RESEARCH TOPIC: MOTIVATION OF WORKERS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN GHANA (CASE STUDY: SELECTED CONSTRUCTION FIRMS IN GREATER ACCRA REGION) CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Motivation is the set of reasons that encourages one to engage in a particular behaviour. The term is generally used for human motivation but‚ it can be used to describe the causes
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Case Study Report Assessment – Background Case Study Leatty Shanghai: A Construction Project Background There is a building boom in residential‚ commercial and institutional buildings all over China. The country is currently using 54 per cent of the world’s production of concrete and 36 per cent of its supply of steel. Predictions suggest that this building boom will continue for at least the next 20 years. Leatty‚ a major property developer‚ has already been involved in several projects
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following risk matrix below‚ in Table ?‚ extracts the major issues that could adversely affect this development. This risk matrix has been produced to cover all the main aspects of the project‚ other variables that can be included are preliminaries‚ construction phases‚ builder and/ or client variations‚ etc. As this report is predominantly aimed at assessing the feasibility of our development‚ we will only be touching on major issues that could potentially cripple the development and its returns if they
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Sociologists argue that race is a social construction. This was initially introduced as a way to justify the inequalities that people faced‚ often because of skin color. The minority group is often taken advantage of by the majority group for the obvious reason‚ because they are the majority and can
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The Effect of The Construction of The Reservoir to the Environment A very good morning to our lecturer‚ Mr. Koh‚ and all my fellow friend. Nowadays‚ the number of the construction of reservoir is keep increase which the total of the flooding area of the reservoir now is up to 400‚000 〖km〗^2. The reasons for the construction of the reservoir had been related to the needs of the consuming of water by the all the people in the world nowadays. The water is used for many reasons such as for drinking
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Chapter. 12 Outline "The Cultural Construction Of Gender and Sexuality" "Differentiating Sexuality And Gender" The biological term‚ Gender refers to the fact that humans are overwhelmingly either male or female. The Organization of cultural activity by gender is pervasive. Every subject that we touch on in cultural anthropology shows the workings of the cultural construction of gender. Sexuality and Gender are the two main parts of the biocultural model The primate
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|Unit Name and Number |Decision Making for Construction Professionals‚ 200485 | |Tutorial Group |Cell 8 | |Tutorial Day and Time |Consultations Wednesday 3:30 | |Lecturer/Tutor
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Introduction: This document investigates Soft Systems Methodology‚ which is a way of dealing with problem situations in which there is a high social‚ political and human activity component. SSM varies from other methodologies as it does not deal with the HARD problems that are more technically oriented but instead it deals with SOFT problems as will be discussed in detail later on in this report. SOFT SYSTEM METHODOLOGY: Soft System Methodology is the brainwave of Professor Peter Checkland. The
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The Mass Media and Social Construction The mass media industry is implicated in social construction. There are "Ways of Seeing" which serve state-corporate interests at the expense of the interests of the people. This is because there is a direct relationship between the mainstream press and the political economy of state-corporate capitalism in the construction of the false reality. The system of capitalism heavily indoctrinates the population through the mainstream press. The mass media fulfils
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This internship program at The Prestige Constructions included three projects. Two of them in The Forum Mall and another one at the construction site of the Exora Business Park. The nature of these three projects is different from each other. Project 1: The first project at the Forum Mall was to analyze the reasons for the fall in the sales of the gift vouchers of The Forum Mall and to come out with a promotional strategy as there was no priory
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