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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I have taken efforts in this Assignment. However, it would not have been possible without the
kind support and help of many individuals. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all of
them.
We take this opportunity to thank all those who have assisted to us and guided, encouraged in
numerous ways in our course and Assignment Department of Quantity surveying of the British
College of Applied Studies., for helping us to obtain the information to carry out this Assignment
Successfully.
I extend my most grateful and sincere to thanks to our lecturer Mr. Nuwan Hettiarachchi for
guiding us throughout our Subject Duration and for all valuable suggestions given to us during
the Subject time to complete the Assignment.
I would like to express my gratitude towards my family of for their kind co-operation and
encouragement which help me in completion of this project.
Thank you


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CONTENTS
Acknowledgement..........1
Contents .....2
Introduction.3


1.1 Task 1 .... .04 - 05
2.1 Task 2 ( Individual Presentation ).......06 - 08
3.1 Task 3.......09 - 10
4.1 Task 4(Class Room Activity No: 01 )....11 - 12
5.1 Task 5...13 - 14
6.1 Task 6....15 - 16
7.1 Task 7.....17 - 18
8.1 Task 8(Class Room Activity No: 02 )..19 - 20
9.1 Task 9(Group Presentation)..21 - 22
10.1 Task 10.23 - 24
Reference.25

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Introduction

This assignment is management subject for the 2nd semester in BTEC HND in Quantity
Surveying &construction Economics. This subject is most important for Quantity surveys.
Because they are must know about the construction management procedure in the construction
industry. This assignment has covered the following learning outcomes are covered according to
VINCI PLC & VINCI Construction UK site information.
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Task 1
Explain the principles and process of management. You may cite relevant examples.
Organization
Two or more people who together in a structured way to achieve a specific goal or set of goals.
Eg: Our regional Teams operate throughout the uk
VINCI Organization is two or more people work together as CEO (John stanion), Managing
Director (Andrew Ridley Barker), Finance Director( Alec Comba), HRD (Colin Jellicoe) & els.
Goal
The purpose that an organization tries to achieve. They have often more than one goal.
Eg: Our people have a passion for what they do both in support of our business and in pursuit of
their own personal career goals.
Management
The management is the process of Planning, Organizing, Leading and controlling the effort of
organization members and of using all other organizational resources to achieve stated
organizational goals.
Managerial & Organization Performance
Managerial Performance
The measure of how efficient & effective manger is. How well he or she determines & achieve
appropriate objectives.
Organization Performance
Organizational performance management is the process of making sure that your company
resources are being properly used in pursuit of company goals. The concept of performance
management is commonly applied to employee development. The managerial and executive staff
also need to develop a monitoring system that charts the progress of the company and determine
when changes in policy or procedure need to be made.
Efficiency Vs Effectiveness
Efficiency : The ability to minimize the use of resource in achieving organizational objectives.
Effectiveness: The ability to determine appropriate objectives.

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Management process
Planning

Planning implies that managers think though their goals and actions in advance and that
their actions are based on some method. Plans give the organization its objectives and set
up the best procedures for leading them.
Eg: VINCI construction planning
1. Project completion
2. Beyond to the delivery of operational
solutions.
3. They can leverage ideas
4. Deliver top quality work in all sectors.


Organizing
Organizing is the process of arranging and allocating work, authority, and resource
among organizations, members so they can achieve organizations goals.
Eg: VINCI Organization that aims fully integrated service for construction.



Leading
Leading involves directing, influencing and motivating employees to perform essential
tasks. Relationships and time are central to leading activities.

Eg: We have strong working relationships
with other vinci companies and subsidiaries
in the uk, all of which in their field.



Controlling
Finally managers must be sure the actions of the organization members do in fact move
the organization toward its stated goals.
Eg: we offer our customers unparalleled and beyond to the delivery of operational
solutions


Figure 1.1 vinci workers planning
Figure 1.2 relationships
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Task 2
Individual Presentation

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Task 9
Group Presentation
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Task 3
Identify the appropriate organizational structure for a selected organization.

Organizing
The managerial function of creating a structure of relationships among employees that will
enable them to carry out managements plans & meet overall objectives.
Type of Organizational structures
Function organizational structures
Product/market organizational structures
Place organizational structures
Matrix organizational structures
Function organizational structures
A form of departmentalization in which individuals engaged in one functional activity,
such as marketing, finance, or HRM are grouped in to one unit
Product organizational structures
Division of Department in to different geographical location to control the sales &
marketing.
Matrix organizational structure
An Organizational structure in which each employee reports to both a functional
managers & to a product or group managers.

VINCI Organizational Matrix organizational structure
VINCI Organizational structure is basically the level of management and the different
responsibilities in a company or organization. This structure is often presented by a
organizational chart.
Functional decentralization means that the different functions of the company or organization is
spitted up, the most common functional departments are:
Finance, Commercial, Construction, Special Projects, Building Division uk, Health & Safety,
Facilities, H.R.D, Communications, Technology Centre, IT.


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Task 5
Indentify leadership qualities needed for a selected position in the above organization.
Leadership
The Ability to influence, motivate & direct others in orders to attain desired objectives.
Leadership is not just a single act, but flow of many acts of leading & following. Effective
leaders work with subordinates & co-workers.

Appointment Announcement
Andrew Ridley-Barker has been appointed Managing Director
of VINCI Construction UK Limited with effect from 1st
January 2011.
Andrew joined Taylor Woodrow in 1988 and is currently
Director of the VINCI Construction UK Air division. During
his career he has delivered major civil engineering projects
overseas and also has extensive experience of the UK market.

Leadership Skills are:
1. Empowerment
2. Intuition
3. Self Understanding
4. Vision
5. Value Congruence

Empowerment
It occurs when a leader shares influence & control with followers. In doing so, the leaders
involve team members in deciding in deciding how to achieve organizations goals.
Empowerment basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging & self esteem.
Eg:
Mr. Andrew Ridley Barker was working a Different Companies such as TAYLOR
WOODROW CONSTRUCTION as Company Director in

Figure 5.1 Andrew Ridley-Barker
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Intuition
The ability to scan a situation, anticipate changes, take risks & built trust are all facets of
intuition. Good leaders have an intuitive feel for changes that will occur around them. They
move quickly in serving new customers, they find new competitive advantages & they exploit
company strengths.
Eg:
Mr. Andrew Ridley Barker as a mature person with age of 44, may be a passion to solve
the problems scientifically.

Self Understanding
It is ability to recognize ones strengths & compensate for ones weaknesses. Corporations that
have done a good job at developing leaders, put an emphasis on creating challenging
opportunities for young management employees.
Eg:
Andrew Michael Ridley-Barker has 4 company director or secretary appointments
because of the Self understanding
Vision
It is the ability to imagine a different & better situation & ways to achieve it.
Eg:
During his career he has delivered major civil engineering projects overseas and also has
extensive experience of the UK market.
Value Congruence
It is the ability to understand organizations guiding principles & employees values & reconcile
the two.
Eg:
Britain's Energy Coast Business Cluster Awards
.

Reference:
http://www.vinciconstruction.co.uk/news-and-downloads/Appointment-Announcement.html
http://company-director-check.co.uk/director/915720392
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Task 6
Explain the ways of managing stress and time at the company.
Stress
The individuals emotional, physical & cognitive response to excessive demands. Stress often
creates nonspecific response.
Emotional
Eg: working under the strict manager
but VINCI Construction Company havent
Emotional stress such as Fairly and Courtesy.

we undertake to treat them fairly and with the
courtesy and respect they deserve

Physical
Eg: Too much of works at Construction site for
management.
VINCI Construction Company expect our employees
to highest standard of professionalism this is the
physical Stress.

we expect our employees to achieve the highest
standard of professionalism in all they do



Cognitive response
Eg: Bad comments made by the manger agents the laborers.




Figure 6.1 Furious
Figure 6.2 Trait
Figure 6.3 Headache
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Sources of Distress
1. Condition that exits in the physical environment.
2. Role Conflicts
3. Role ambiguity

Role conflicts

A conflicts resulting from a person being subjected to strong & inconsistent pressures or
expectation. A role is a group of related tasks & behaviors that an individual is expected to carry
out. Role bound within organizations and outside of organizations

Eg: VINCI PLC offers substantial scope for personal development in support of both the goals
of the business

Role ambiguity

Confusion created by inadequate or unclear information or by uncertainty about the
consequences of ones behavior
Individuals may experience difficulties with their role set beyond that created by role conflicts

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Task 7
Comment on the Organizational culture at vinci and decision making process of the company,
Organizational Culture
The organizations personality, the way of thinking, & doing the things in it, which is shared by
most of its member & which must be learned by new members if they are to survive & progress.
Its learned

Eg: Hannah Lynnah had finished the school level. She have same basic knowledge.
She stared job as VINCI construction company receptionist. she was met more different
peoples. She was learned how to manage the different peoples. Then she was appointed
project controller.

Its Shared

Eg: VINCI construction company rules and regulations such as reporting plays, time in
time out site visit, may be the have management's developments Qs as to share with
managers

Its Transmitted

Eg: Hannah Lynne was started job as receptionist two years ago now she is projects
controller. This two years she had two promotions.



Core Values
A value that is central to organizational culture & is likely to reflect a work-related value of the
society, in which the organization operates. There are four work- related societal value
dimensions.

Powder distance
Uncertainty avoidances
Individualism
Masculinity

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VINCI Construction Company Hofstedes Value Dimension



VINCI construction most people in a society support an unequal distribution, the society
is ranked high on the power distance dimension.

VINCI construction is measure the degree to which individuals or societies attempt to
avoid the riskiness of the future in this company don't take risk any way uncertainty
avoidance is low.

VINCI Construction Company is not individual. This is a team such as Individualism is
low or collectivism is high.

VINCI Construction Company is more earn money and high quality construction work
such as masculinity is high


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Task 10
Discuss the importance of team work for successful completion of a construction projects at
Vinci.
Team
Vinci group organizationally empowered to participate in decision making, exercise influence
over how their objectives are met & often, establish many of those objectives.
Team Decision Making
There is considerable controversy over when team
decision making. Some individual think that its waste
of time & should only be used when the politics of the
situation demand it. Others believe that team decision
marking is often superior to individual decision
marking & should be used whenever appropriate.

Advantages of Team
Great knowledge

Eg: On budget on time
VINCI construction team of the engineer, architecture, mason, T.o to discuss a preparing
boq.

A diversity of approaches

Eg: inception, ground investigation and remediation, through to project
completion
The manager might have optional methods to propose the project works
such as select the work ground investigation than suitable operational
solution.

Increase acceptance

Eg: team responsible for its delivery
VINCI construction team decision may be more committed to the decision & accept more
responsibility for making work.


Figure 10.1 Round table panel
Figure 10.2 Diversity of approaches
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Better Understanding

Eg: our clients have direct access to the people running their project
VINCI construction laborers problems at the construction site they have taken a good
decision for direct access to the laborers. This is the management to laborers good
understanding way.

It always means enhanced collective understanding of the course of action to be taken
after the decision is taken.

Disadvantages of Team
Individual opinions can be biased or affected with preconceived notions that can hinder
the process.
One of the major disadvantages is that it is more time consuming than the process of
individual decision making.
It takes longer to be finalized since there are many opinions to be considered and valued.
In case of authoritarian or minority group decision making, the people whose opinions
are not considered tend to be left out from the decision making process and hence the
team spirit ceases to grow.
The responsibility and accountability of the decisions are not equally shared in some
cases which leads to a split in the group and hence hampers the overall efficiency of the
group.

Types of teams
1. Formal Teams
A Organizational group whose purpose & tasks directly to attainment of stated
organizational objectives.

2. Problem solving teams
A formal group of hourly & salaried employees, often volunteers, who meet to discuss
ways to improve quality, productivity & work environment.

3. Special purpose team
A formal group of employees from various departments or even two organizational levels
that is empowered with responsibility to handle any of a number of possible special
situation.


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Reference
Lecture notes

http://www.vinciconstruction.co.uk/
http://www.vinci.jobs/pages/About-VINCI-Construction-UK.html