TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Gill
AU  - Thomas,Mike
TI  - Construction partnering & integrated teamworking
SN  - 9781405135566 (pbk. : alk. paper)
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford, UK
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Construction industry
KW  - Management
KW  - Teams in the workplace
KW  - Strategic alliances (Business)
KW  - Partnership
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-232) and index; The culture change to partnering and integrated teamworking -- Identifying the organisations' value criteria -- Partnering advisers and facilitators -- Internal partnering and managing change -- Selection criteria and weighting -- Selecting supplier partners -- Writing effective partnering documentation -- Evaluating client partners -- Submitting successful partnering bids -- Assessment, evaluation and award -- Developing the integrated team -- Trust -- Respect for people -- Communication -- Non-technical team roles -- Mutual objectives -- Issue resolution -- Partnering champions and the core groups -- Continuous improvement -- Benchmarking and key performance indicators -- A programme of partnering and integrated team workshops -- Initial partnering workshop -- Continuous improvement review -- Post project review -- Value management -- Risk management -- Lean thinking -- Cola--the cross organisational learning approach -- Implementing best value through partnering and integrated teamworking -- Sustainability -- Whole life costing -- Innovation -- Open book accounting -- Incentivisation and award -- Partnering contracts -- Involving interested parties and inducting new staff -- Avoiding the pitfalls of partnering -- Icebreakers and team building exercises
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005004147.html
ER  -