team

• Project teams


  Must be assembled to accomplish the work necessary to complete engineering and construction projects
• Project manager


  • Depends on the team because he or she typically does not have the expertise to do all the work required to complete the project
  • Must be a leader to guide the overall efforts
• Project manager


  Generally responsible for managing multiple projects at the same time, which complicates scheduling and resource control
• Decision-making by project manager

  1. During team meetings, numerous decisions must be made

  2. The process used can have a direct impact on team performance

  3. May involve the entire team

  4. Must establish a process that matches the decision to be made
• Project manager


  • Must have high ethics and a sense of fairness and honesty
  • Is the role model for the team
  • Must communicate the desired goals, objectives, values, and outcomes of the project
• Team communications


  1. Regularly scheduled team meetings are essential

  2. May have numerous meetings between key team members to exchange detailed information

  3. A well defined scope for the team guides the progress of work and provides clear goals
• Effective communication


  • Means the other person has received and understood the information that is being given to him or her
  • The giver of information must obtain feedback from the receiver
• Maslow's hierarchy of needs


  • Humans are a wanting animal and their wants become needs
  • Needs include basic physical and psychological needs, which are perceived in the human mind and satisfied by material things
  • Needs follow a hierarchy, beginning with comfort and basic survival, then safety and security