The role of competency-based performance management is growing in significance in many industries and sectors. Unlike functional competences, which measure performance against predetermined minimum occupational standards, competency-based systems are founded on the key behavioural competencies...

Growing emphasis on meeting client needs and improving project performance within the construction industry has led to increasing use of fully integrated “design and build” (D&B) construction project teams. Advocates of the D&B system contend that integrating design and construction this way...

A discouraging problem regarding the use of robots within production processes is the perception by designers of single, unique products (such as buildings) that a manufacturing approach, reliant upon high levels of standardisation, constrains design creativity. An alternative approach, based...

Research on managerial competence has been narrowly focused and confusing in its terminology. In particular, a disparity has emerged between the definitions and assessments of competence developed in the USA and the approaches adopted in the UK. In this paper it is argued that each perspective...

The UK construction industry has significantly increased the number of women that it attracts, due to an active marketing campaign by the industry’s representative bodies. However, this initiative does not appear to have been based on sound empirical evidence that women professionals will be...

In 1998, a government‐sponsored review of the UK construction sector called for the adoption of initiatives from manufacturing industry in order to increase productivity and reduce costs. Subsequent research has focused on how supply chain management practices could be implemented effectively...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on research which has developed a new approach to capturing project‐based learning. Design/methodology/approach – Action research was employed as part of a longitudinal single organization case study. Findings – Project learning processes...