Construction Project Human Resource Management

Description

Construction project human resource management is a professional training course designed to equip construction professionals with the knowledge and practical skills for planning, acquiring, developing, leading, motivating, and managing project teams. The training course emphasizes workforce productivity, leadership, communication, employee performance, labor relations, and effective management of construction personnel throughout the project life cycle. This training course presents aspects of construction project human resource management that guides and serves as a basis to initiate human resource needs and requirements; plan resource, acquire, develop, and manage human resource management practices to develop and authorize construction project human resource management documents; direct, manage, and validate construction project services and works; and monitor and control construction project performances to successfully complete works. It outlines the human resource management concepts and processes (inputs, mechanisms such as tools and techniques, constraints and output) in carrying out construction projects. The training course is mainly applicable to building and road projects, and with little modifications for other construction projects delivery methods other than design bid build and design build. In this professional training course, practical applications, case studies and project-based scenarios are included. Topics covered include the following:

• Human resource management initiation
• Human resource management planning
• Human resource management execution (acquiring and developing)
• Human resource management monitoring (managing)
• Human resource management closing
• Inputs, mechanisms, constraints and outputs

Outcomes

Upon the completion of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Describe human resource management processes in construction projects
• Adopt human resource processes, procedures, mechanisms (tools and techniques), strategies and methods through construction project management processes
• Identify human resource requirement, set criterions, policies and standards – initiate human resource management
• Define project roles, planning, estimate required skills for project, acquire and manage staffs – plan human resource management
• Process of identifying and confirming human resource availability – acquire human resource management
• Process of improving competencies, team member interaction/overall team environment – develop human resource management
• Process of monitoring and evaluating team member performance and providing feedback – manage human resource management

Target audience

The target audience for this training course includes construction project managers, civil engineers, architects, quantity surveyors, contract administrators, planning engineers, project control engineers, consultants, contractors, developers, procurement professionals, and client representatives.