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The Practice of Construction Management offers construction managers and students an account of management ideas and practices as applied to construction management, concentrating particularly on the human aspects. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest management thinking from both management practice and research, to provide a fascinating and thought provoking account of the essential themes and trends as they impact on management in construction. This is a readable textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of construction management, and for construction managers faced with the tasks of promoting a culture of collaborative working and balancing relationships with commercial issues. Growing interest in the 'softer' aspects of construction management Substantial revisions and additions, including communication, conflict management and managing innovation Features tutor-led debate topics, discussion items and questions for each chapter Relates construction management theory to practice