Esta pesquisa explicita o caráter ideológico do discurso e das praticas flexíveis de gestão nos bancos brasileiros, através do confronto com o discurso de trabalhadores bancários e com os dados empíricos a respeito das condições concretas de trabalho nesta empresas. As mudanças de gestão são entendidas como tecnologias, bem como as transformações físicas ocorridas nos bancos - a automação bancaria - ambas integradas no processo produtivo como instrumento para consolidar o modelo de "acumulação flexível". Ao passo que essas novas tecnologias são travestidas de uma maior integração do trabalhador no processo produtivo, marcando o seu caráter corporativista, observamos uma intensificação do processo de exploração do trabalho, evidenciando que esta flexibilidade caracteriza um estágio de espoliação da força de trabalho no capitalismo. A estratégia dos bancos combina tanto a extrema exploração dos trabalhadores que prestam serviços em empresas terceirizadas e correspondentes como a intensificação do trabalho do trabalhador bancário. Os discursos dos bancários nos permitem compreender as contradições desse modelo flexível de organização do trabalho e os conflitos vivenciados no cotidiano das agências bancárias, gerando grande sofrimento aos trabalhadores. Analisamos os dados levantados e cruzados dentro de uma perspectiva histórico-social, a partir das contribuições de Marx e de autores marxistas, na qual as mudanças organizacionais são resultantes do desenvolvimento da luta de classes em sua dinâmica histórica. / This research explicits the ideological character of the speeches and pratices on brazilian's banks, confronting the bank workers' speech with empirical datas about the real conditions of work in these business. The management changes are understood as technologies, and the physical transformations that happened on banks - known as banking automation - as well, both serving as instrument to consolidate the model of "flexible accumulation". While these new technologies seems to create a bigger integration of the workers on the production process, with its corporatist character, we observe a intensification on work's exploration process, evidencing that this flexibility features a stage of despoilment of capitalism's workforce. The banks strategy combines the extreme exploration of workers from outsourced business who provide services for the banks with the intensification of the banks worker's labor. These workers' speeches allow us to comprehend the contradictions of this flexible model of work's organization and the daily conflicts experienced in banks, creating huge suffering to the workers. The collected and crossed datas were analyzed in a social-historical perspective, using Marx's contribution and other Marxists authors, who says that the organizational's changes results from the class struggle in its historical dynamic.

CAPES / Questões vinculadas à qualidade e produtividade são exigências do mundo atual com a construção civil. Os processos construtivos precisam demonstrar de forma expressiva sua eficiência, dinâmica e competência. No levantamento realizado pela CNI - Confederação Nacional da Indústria e pela CBIC - Câmara Brasileira da Indústria da Construção, apontou-se que as empresas da construção civil têm dificuldades em encontrar profissionais com qualificação básica, tais como pedreiros e serventes, por exemplo. A deficitária qualificação profissional nas empresas que trabalham em ritmo acelerado acaba favorecendo a baixa produtividade. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar a percepção de diferentes atores da construção civil na cidade de Curitiba-PR com a qualificação profissional, visando à melhoria da qualidade e aumento da produtividade para o desenvolvimento do setor de edificações. Através de revisão bibliográfica e da análise de informações de cada ator estudado, retrata-se as perspectivas e visão futura para o setor da construção civil sob a concepção de cada membro, suas parcerias, interações e a busca pela capacitação profissional. Os resultados da pesquisa sugerem a reflexão sobre uma nova cultura de participação coletiva, para adequar a qualificação profissional a melhoria da qualidade e produtividade no setor da construção civil. / Linked to the quality and productivity issues are requirements of today's world with the construction. Construction processes need to demonstrate their efficiency significantly, dynamic and competence. In a survey conducted by CNI - National Confederation of Industry and the CBIC - Brazilian Chamber of Construction Industry, it was pointed out that the construction companies have difficulties in finding professionals with basic qualifications, such as masons and servants, for example. The low professional qualification in companies working accelerated favoring low productivity. The objective of this study is to analyze the perception of different actors of civil construction in the city of Curitiba - PR with the qualification, aimed at improving the quality and increasing productivity for the development of the building sector. Through literature review and analysis of information from each studied actor, represent the prospects and future vision for the construction industry in the design of each member, their partnerships, interactions and search for job training. The survey results suggest reflection on a new culture of community involvement to tailor the qualification to improve the quality and productivity in the construction sector.

Esta pesquisa explicita o caráter ideológico do discurso e das praticas flexíveis de gestão nos bancos brasileiros, através do confronto com o discurso de trabalhadores bancários e com os dados empíricos a respeito das condições concretas de trabalho nesta empresas. As mudanças de gestão são entendidas como tecnologias, bem como as transformações físicas ocorridas nos bancos - a automação bancaria - ambas integradas no processo produtivo como instrumento para consolidar o modelo de "acumulação flexível". Ao passo que essas novas tecnologias são travestidas de uma maior integração do trabalhador no processo produtivo, marcando o seu caráter corporativista, observamos uma intensificação do processo de exploração do trabalho, evidenciando que esta flexibilidade caracteriza um estágio de espoliação da força de trabalho no capitalismo. A estratégia dos bancos combina tanto a extrema exploração dos trabalhadores que prestam serviços em empresas terceirizadas e correspondentes como a intensificação do trabalho do trabalhador bancário. Os discursos dos bancários nos permitem compreender as contradições desse modelo flexível de organização do trabalho e os conflitos vivenciados no cotidiano das agências bancárias, gerando grande sofrimento aos trabalhadores. Analisamos os dados levantados e cruzados dentro de uma perspectiva histórico-social, a partir das contribuições de Marx e de autores marxistas, na qual as mudanças organizacionais são resultantes do desenvolvimento da luta de classes em sua dinâmica histórica. / This research explicits the ideological character of the speeches and pratices on brazilian's banks, confronting the bank workers' speech with empirical datas about the real conditions of work in these business. The management changes are understood as technologies, and the physical transformations that happened on banks - known as banking automation - as well, both serving as instrument to consolidate the model of "flexible accumulation". While these new technologies seems to create a bigger integration of the workers on the production process, with its corporatist character, we observe a intensification on work's exploration process, evidencing that this flexibility features a stage of despoilment of capitalism's workforce. The banks strategy combines the extreme exploration of workers from outsourced business who provide services for the banks with the intensification of the banks worker's labor. These workers' speeches allow us to comprehend the contradictions of this flexible model of work's organization and the daily conflicts experienced in banks, creating huge suffering to the workers. The collected and crossed datas were analyzed in a social-historical perspective, using Marx's contribution and other Marxists authors, who says that the organizational's changes results from the class struggle in its historical dynamic.

Orientador: Marcia de Paula Leite / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T07:41:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gomes_CarlosAntonio_M.pdf: 749753 bytes, checksum: e8cba43d8e81a658a33ff8e4ee6656be (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: O presente trabalho analisa como os movimentos de precarização das relações de trabalho e de uso desgastante da força de trabalho ¿ implementados a partir da reestruturação produtiva e da adoção da agenda de políticas econômicas restritivas ¿ também se manifestam através da inflexão da qualidade geral da força de trabalho brasileira. Em princípio e a título do estabelecimento de comparações entre modelos de relações de trabalho, é feita uma revisita histórica à formação do padrão norte-americano de desenvolvimento - caracterizado pela comunhão entre a organização taylor-fordista do trabalho e a relação salarial fordista - edificado a partir de Bretton Woods. Na seqüência, analisa os sistemas produtivos dos países de capitalismo avançado, reestruturados a partir da Terceira Revolução Industrial e Tecnológica e dos novos métodos de produção flexível, comparando-os com o sistema brasileiro. Conclui que a tentativa de implementação do modelo japonês no Brasil tem esbarrado no conservadorismo empresarial, ao mesmo temo em que produzido um modelo industrial particular, idiossincrásico e, acima de tudo, predatório e desagregador das relações de trabalho. Sem se prender aos aspectos produtivistas, a análise envereda pelos aspectos políticos e sociais, chamando atenção para a degradação do mercado brasileiro de trabalho, que vem ocorrendo em função da adoção das políticas de adequação da produção à demanda, cujos principais sintomas são a brutal elevação do desemprego e o uso crescente das modalidades não-capitalistas de contratação de mão-de-obra. Conclui estabelecendo um indicativo de que a tais políticas estariam impactando negativamente na qualificação profissional dos trabalhadores, inflexionando a capacidade produtiva da força de trabalho no que diz respeito ao manuseio de sistemas avançados de agregação de valor, ao passo em que contribuindo ainda mais para o desvio da economia brasileira dos trilhos do desenvolvimento sustentado / Abstract: The present work analyzes as the movements of precarization of the work relations and of absorbing use of the work force of implemented from the productive reorganization and of the adoption of the agenda of restrictive economics politics also they are disclosed through the precarization of the general quality of the Brazilian force of work. In principle and the heading of the establishment of comparisons between models of work relations, is made one revisits historical to the formation of the North American standard of development - characterized for the communion it enters the taylor-fordista organization of the work and the fordista wage relation - built from Bretton Woods. In the sequence, it analyzes the productive systems of the countries of advanced capitalism, reorganized from the third industrial and technological revolution and of the new methods of flexible production, comparing them with the Brazilian system. It concludes that the attempt of implementation of the models Japanese in Brazil has collide in the conservative empresariable and produced particular a model industrial, idiosyncratic and above of everything, predatory and desaggregator of the work relations. Without if arresting to the aspects produtivists, the analysis guide for social the politics aspects and, calling for the degradation the Brazilian market of work, that comes occurring in function of the adoption of the politics of adequacy of the production to the demand, whose main symptoms are the brutal rise of unemployment and the increasing use of the modalities not-capitalists of man power act of contract. It concludes establishing an indicative of that to such politics they would be shocking negative in the professional qualification of the workers, inflectioning the productive capacity of the force of work in whom it says respect to the manuscript of advanced systems of value aggregation, to the step where contributing still more for the shunting line of the Brazilian economy of the tracks of the supported development / Mestrado / Educação, Sociedade, Politica e Cultura / Mestre em Educação

Orientador: Ricardo Luiz Coltro Antunes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T12:07:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_AdrianoPereira_M.pdf: 1761296 bytes, checksum: 95f608f1ae150cd81f038d0ab382263f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Nas últimas décadas, o modo de produção capitalista vem passando por intensas transformações em sua forma de acumulação, reestruturando seus processos produtivos e relações de trabalho. No Brasil, esse processo de mudança se inicia em meados dos anos de 1980, mas se intensifica somente durante a década de 90, a partir da abertura comercial e internacionalização da economia, exigindo das empresas inovações tecnológicas, novas formas de organização da produção e novos métodos de gestão da força de trabalho. Focalizando essas transformações num estudo de caso acerca da Zanini S/A Equipamentos Pesados de Sertãozinho-SP, objetivou-se nesta dissertação compreender: 1) como se desenvolveu o processo de reestruturação produtiva nessa empresa nos anos de 1990 e a reorganização industrial que ela gerou sobre o setor metalúrgico da cidade; 2) quais os impactos produzidos por esse processo sobre os trabalhadores, e se ele influenciou na postura do Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos na década de 90 com relação à postura que essa entidade mantinha nos anos de 1980. Por meio de ampla pesquisa concreta, que contou com levantamento bibliográfico concernente ao tema, captação de dados, pesquisa documental e principalmente entrevistas com trabalhadores, sindicalistas e empresários, constituímos um quadro analítico que busca perceber e revelar os fenômenos e processos sociais desencadeados pela reestruturação produtiva da Zanini sobre os trabalhadores da empresa e o Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos. Os resultados a que chegamos demonstram que a reestruturação produtiva operada na Zanini gerou desemprego em massa e precarização das condições de trabalho no interior da empresa durante o período de crise, fusão e incorporação pela Dedini. Paralelamente a isso, observa-se o processo de reorganização industrial na empresa a partir da introdução de novos processos produtivos e novas formas de gestão e organização da força de trabalho, com a tentativa de cooptar e fragmentar econômica, social e politicamente os trabalhadores metalúrgicos. Verificou-se, ainda, que o Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos ¿ diante de tais transformações do capital para ampliar seu controle sobre o trabalho ¿, encontrou dificuldades para se mobilizar. Assim, percebe-se uma alteração em sua forma de organização e atuação, pois ao se filiar à Força Sindical, sua orientação política se modifica, deixando de ser um Sindicato combativo, como era nos anos 1980, para se constituir num Sindicato de participação e colaboração com o capital na década de 90 / Abstract: In the last few decades, the way of capitalist production is passing by an intense transformations in its form of accumulation, reorganizing its productive processes and work relations. In Brazil, this process of change initiates in the middle 80s, but it is intensified only during the decade of the 90s, from the commercial opening and the internationalization of the economy, demanding, from the companies, technological innovations, new forms of organization for the production and new methods of management of the work force. Focusing these transformations in a study concerning Zanini S/A Heavy Equipment, in Sertãozinho-SP, the objective in this dissertation was to understand: 1) how the development of the productive reorganization process happened in this company in the 90s and the industrial reorganization that it generated on the metallurgic sector of the city; 2) which were the impacts produced by this process on the workers, and if it influenced in the position of the Union of Metallurgist in the 90s, regarding the position that this entity kept in the 80s. By means of a wide concrete research, that counted on bibliographical survey about the subject, data survey, documentary research and mainly interviews with workers, syndicalists and entrepreneurs, an analytical picture was constituted trying to perceive and to disclose the phenomena and the social processes which happened because of the productive reorganization of Zanini on its workers and on the Union of Metallurgist. The results demonstrates that the productive reorganization operated at Zanini, generated mass unemployment and bad work conditions in the company during the period of crisis, fusing and incorporation for Dedini. In the meanwhile, the process of industrial reorganization in the company from the introduction of new productive processes isobserved and also, new forms of management and organization of the work force, with the attempt of economically, socially and politically co-opting and breaking up the metallurgic workers. It was also verified, that the Union of Metallurgist - ahead of such transformations of the capital to extend its control on the work-, found difficulties in mobilizing itself. Thus, one perceives an alteration in its form of organization and performance, because to be filiated to the Syndical Force, its political orientation gets modified; stopping being a militant Union, as it was in the 80s, to consist a Union of participation and contribution with the capital in the 90s / Mestrado / Mestre em Sociologia

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To perform the proposed work goal, we used the technical resources of literature and documents and adopted the descriptive analytical method. The first analysis is a comparison between the structure of the transformation of Goiás and São Paulo industry and the results indicated a reduction in structural heterogeneity, both indicators of labor productivity as in the structure of earnings and employment. The second test checks the industrial conformation as the level of technology embodied in the production process. At this point, the segments of low technological intensity remained the largest share of the value added by the manufacturing industry, indicating that driving the dynamic axis of Goiás economy facing the external sector, deepening into a process of specialization in some technologically advanced segments. There, in this period, a process of reduction of intra-sectoral heterogeneity caused by the reduction in labor productivity in sectors with a higher share in the value added of the manufacturing industry and the structure of jobs. Finally, the third analysis captures the structural heterogeneity according to company size, demonstrating an important change since the micro ceases to be the main source of jobs in the Goiás’s manufacturing while indicating a process of increase in average incomes work in the 2000-2010 period. There is, therefore, in this period, an intense process of incorporating labor to the industrial structure, especially in large companies, consortiums to increase our level of average labor compensation, indicating a process of reducing the heterogeneity structure in the manufacturing industry state of Goiás. / O intuito deste trabalho é compreender em que medida o fenômeno da heterogeneidade estrutural existente na economia industrial goiana afetou a estrutura de rendimentos do trabalho e emprego do estado de Goiás no interregno 2000-2010. A hipótese defendida é que, em Goiás, o processo de crescimento da produção industrial e no número de empresas se desenvolveu de modo a ampliar hiato de produtividade e rendimento do trabalho entre os diferentes segmentos da indústria de transformação no período 2000-2010. Para a realização do objetivo proposto no trabalho, utilizaram-se dos recursos técnicos da pesquisa bibliográfica e documental e adotou-se o método analítico descritivo. A primeira análise faz uma comparação entre a estrutura da indústria de transformação de Goiás e São Paulo sendo que os resultados indicaram uma redução na heterogeneidade estrutural, tanto nos indicadores de produtividade do trabalho quanto na estrutura de rendimentos do trabalho e emprego. A segunda análise verifica a conformação industrial conforme o nível de tecnologia incorporada ao processo produtivo. Nesse ponto, os segmentos de baixa intensidade tecnológica mantiveram a maior participação no valor adicionado pela indústria de transformação, indicando a condução do eixo dinâmico da economia goiana voltado para o setor externo, aprofundando-se em um processo de especialização em segmentos pouco avançados tecnologicamente. Há, neste período, um processo de redução da heterogeneidade intra-setorial provocada pela redução da produtividade do trabalho nos setores com maior participação no valor adicionado da indústria de transformação e na estrutura de empregos. Por fim, a terceira análise resgata a heterogeneidade estrutural de acordo com o porte das empresas, demonstrando uma importante mudança visto que a microempresa deixa de ser a principal fonte de empregos da manufatura goiana ao mesmo tempo em que indica um processo de aumento dos rendimentos médios do trabalho no período 2000-2010. Há, portanto, neste período, um intenso processo de incorporação de mão de obra à estrutura industrial goiana, principalmente nas grandes empresas, consorciada com ampliação do nível da remuneração média do trabalho, indicando um processo de redução da heterogeneidade estrutura na indústria de transformação do estado de Goiás.

Purpose – The primary aim of the study was to establish to what extent company vision impacted on productivity, profitability, morale and the quality of product at Borbet SA. Borbet SA is an aluminium wheel manufacturer situated in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The secondary aim of the study was to establish whether the vision would be reached by applying the company values in action at Borbet SA. Methodology – Seventy-seven respondents employed at Borbet SA completed a Likert Scale Questionnaire to measure their knowledge and application of the company vision and values. The research study made use of a combination of qualitative and quantitative research approaches. The research study was qualitative as the topic was subjective to perception of the participants. However, the data was to be analyzed quantitatively through statistical practices. Findings – Overall, the participants were 99 percent aware of the vision statement at Borbet SA. Therefore, Borbet SA had succeeded in making company vision a part of their business strategy. The successful implementation of a vision and values at Borbet SA have improved productivity, profitability, morale and quality of product at the company. The study’s main findings were that employees between the ages of 18 – 29 years were especially optimistic of the company vision and values. Employees working at Borbet SA for between 4 – 5 years and working at Borbet for between 0 – 3 years tended to be more unenthusiastic about company vision and values. Middle management, including supervisors and team leaders, were also pessimistic about certain aspects concerning the vision of the company. Research limitations – One of the limitations of the research were that only 77 of the workforce completed the voluntary questionnaire. The questionnaire was in English and this was not the first language of the majority of the employees at Borbet SA. This could have prevented them from completing the questionnaire because they might not have felt confident in responding in ii English. Educational levels could also have influenced the response to the questionnaire seeing that not all employees had the same educational levels and, thus, this could have been intimidating. Recommendations – The main recommendation was that a mentoring programme be implemented in which younger and older employees could motivate each other and build morale. The management of Borbet SA was recommended to have team building sessions with middle management, supervisors and team leaders to build morale and optimism in these groups. Employees working for 4 – 5 years needed to be evaluated and motivated as some of them could have felt stagnant in their job positions.

Le salariat agricole a toujours été invisible, socialement et politiquement. Pourtant, bien que son poids se soit réduit au XXe siècle, son rôle reste encore important dans l'agriculture familiale française. Sa place se renforce et sa nature se modifie : le travail saisonnier se développe. Dans un contexte d'exacerbation de la concurrence, la compréhension des déterminants de ces mutations et de leurs implications est au centre d'un double enjeu : social et de compétitivité. Selon nous, la distinction faite en économie agricole entre famille et salariat est insuffisante pour saisir ces évolutions et leurs impacts sur la performance des exploitations. Nous analysons, théoriquement puis économétriquement, les déterminants de la demande de travail des exploitations familiales en distinguant les salariés permanents des saisonniers. Nous montrons qu'une telle distinction permet de mieux comprendre le comportement des exploitants, de révéler des phénomènes de substitution entre les deux types de salariés et d'expliciter les mécanismes sous-jacents à ces phénomènes. Nous étudions, de plus, le lien entre la main-d’œuvre des exploitations et leur performance. En estimant une fonction de production, nous montrons que les trois types de travail sont inégalement productifs et que la composition de la main-d’œuvre influence la productivité des exploitations. Enfin, par l'analyse qualitative d'un contrat saisonnier particulier et de la flexibilité du travail qu'il offre, nous montrons que les formes d'emploi en agriculture sont plus complexes que la dichotomie permanents-saisonniers et qu'elles invitent à revenir sur le dualisme des formes de flexibilité du travail de la littérature. / Wage labor in agriculture has always been characterized by some invisibility, whether it is in the social or political field. Although its importance has been reduced throughout the 20th century, it still plays an important role in family farming in France. This role has developed and its very nature changes as seasonal work increases. At a time of increasing competition, understanding these evolutions, their determinants and consequences therefore becomes a double issue of study : a social one and one of competitivity. It is our opinion that the classical dichotomy between family work and wage labor is insufficient when highlighting evolutions in the workforce and its impact in terms of the performance of farms. The factors of family farming labor demand are analysed, theoretically and econometrically, by differentiating permanent workers from seasonal ones. Such a distinction gives a better understanding of the farmers' behaviour, shows the substitution phenomena between these two types of workers, and gives the reasons for such a substitution. The link between workforce composition and farm performance is also studied. By estimating a production function, we show that the three types of workers are unequally productive and that workforce composition affects farm productivity. Lastly, the qualitative study of a specific seasonal contract and that of the type of labor flexibility such a contract offers, sheds light on how jobs in agriculture are much more complex than the strict division between permanent and seasonal workers. Indeed, they call for a questioning of the dual aspect of labor flexibility generally used in the economic literature.

South Africa has three spheres of government, of which all are battling with the delivery of services to the population due to a number of challenges (Koketso and Rust, 2012). The local sphere of government was established in 1996 by the constitution of South Africa, for promoting social and economic development at municipal-based jurisdictions (Valeta and Walton, 2008). Pillay, Subban and Qwabe (2008) state that the South African public service lacks the skills required to perform their duties effectively and this is a key restraint. To emphasise this lack of skills, in an earlier study Meyer and Babb (2005) stated that management in the public sector is faced with a challenge of attracting employees with suitable skills for the job. Therefore, talent management has been identified as one of the strategies rural municipalities can use to improve performance. For this study, talent management is defined as a strategic process of attracting, recruiting, developing and retaining individuals who have the capability to make a significant difference to the current and future performance of the institution. The primary objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of current talent management strategies used by rural municipalities and to provide these municipalities with a talent management model that can be of benefit to these institutions. This study analysed whether rural municipalities have talent management strategies and how effective those strategies were, by evaluating their current ways of attracting, developing and retaining their talent. A structured questionnaire was used as the measuring instrument. The study concluded by providing a talent model that could be used by rural municipalities.

Construction delays are a global phenomenon. Factors causing construction delays in construction projects differ from country to country, due to different prevailing conditions. The prevailing conditions that could exert an influence on project delivery time are: political, economic, and physical factors as well as level of technological development; management style, and construction techniques. The construction industry is a major player in the economy, generating both employment and wealth. However, many projects experience extensive delays and thereby exceed initial time and cost estimates. This study aims at determining the causes of delays in project delivery in South Africa; evolving interventions, and developing a model for the delivery of projects on time. Inferential and linear regression statistical tools were used in the analysis of data for the study. The sample population consists of architects, builders, quantity surveyors, structural engineers, and clients, and the metropolitan cities of five provinces constituted the geographical delimitation of the study. The provinces are: Eastern Cape; Free State; Gauteng; KwaZulu-Natal, and Western Cape. The metropolitan cities are: Bloemfontein; Cape Town; Durban; Johannesburg, and Port Elizabeth. Findings which negatively influence project delivery time in South Africa include the following: lack of adequate planning; management style; the lack of constructability reviews of designs; inadequate motivation of workers; economic policies; lack of prompt payment to contractors, and quality of management during design and construction. Recommendations include: (1) The introduction of the following courses in built environment tertiary education � quality management competences; operational planning; design management, and generic management; (2) pre-qualification of suppliers; (3) inclusion of the following in tender documentation � human resource schedule; plant and equipment schedule; quality assurance plan, and work schedule; (4) appointment of materials specialists on a large projects; (5) the model developed should be adopted for use in the South African construction industry for the delivery of projects on time, and (6) the linear regression equation: Y = 13.1159 + 1.1341x or 35.3 percent addition on time for the estimation of project delivery time.