Management Report

BLDG 1260 CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT 1
SESSION 1/2006

GROUP PROJECT REPORT:
“Management is pure common sense and should not be taught”.

BY:
Robert Freitag (3192736), Shanshan Hou (3189173), Mario Japardy (3191803), Reza Juwono (3186839), Ryan Melvold (3187100), Benny Wang (3189899).

LECTURER:
Dr Linda Tay.

DUE:
2nd May 2006.
CONTENTS

|1.0 INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………... |2 |
|2.0 PLANNING…………………………………………………………………………. |2 |
|2.1 Types of Plans……………………………………………………………………………. |2 |
|2.2 Knowledge to Plan and Common Sense to Plan………………………… |3 |
|3.0 ORGANISING……………………………………………………………………… |3 |
|3.1 Organising Skills…………………………………………………………………………. |3 |
|3.2 Organisational Structure……………………………………………………………. |3 |
|3.3 Knowledge to Organise and Common Sense to Organise………….. |4 |
|4.0 LEADING……………………………………………………………………………. |4 |
|4.1 Leadership Styles………………………………………………………………………. |4 |
|4.2 Motivation………………………………………………………………………………….. |5 |
|4.3 Delegation………………………………………………………………………………….

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