Management

Majority of construction projects are situated far from the head office and from one another. It is, therefore, almost impossible to provide a continuous supervision or control over the routine and day-to-day activities and problems of project sites. The physical distance itself will decrease the degree of management controls and hence, increase the work force autonomy. Improvisations have to play an important part in many "here and now" decisions at construction sites. 

It makes imperative that at a construction project site there is a widespread delegation of decision making powers through all levels of organisation right up to operative level. This contrasts markedly with the manufacturing industries where rules, procedures and method statements can be formed and applied more rigorously to the job tasks. Thus, the availability of trained and skilled human resource at all levels of management is much more important in construction sector than any other sector of industry.