| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N33942/01 |
| Title: |
TRUST IN CONSTRUCTION:ACHIEVING CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR |
| Principal Investigator: |
McDermott, Professor P |
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| Department: |
Res Inst for the Built and Human Env |
| Organisation: |
University of Salford |
| Scheme: |
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| Starts: |
01 October 2000 |
Ends: |
31 December 2001 |
Value (£): |
112,317
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| Construction Ops & Management |
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To date the CMP initiative has funded extensive research into the means whereby construction can adopt practises which have been proven in other sectors. The current need is to ensure that the necessary attitudinal and cultural change, that will ensure the spread of good practise and the embedding of continuous improvement, takes place. This project seeks to develop tools which will help to evaluate trust as one (and we argue the most significant) cultural aspect of teamwork in construction. One of the fundamentals to the change process identified by Egan - commitment to people - involved moving to 'a no-blame culture based on mutual interdependence and trust'. There is no widely accepted definition of trust. Neither are there any studies that have attempted to measure the degree of trust underpinning a relationship, yet at a prima facie level we would anticipate that long-lasting well-established relationships would have a more resilient form of trust than those recently formed. This project combines an experienced group of academics with a group of industrialists committed to help drive change in the sector. This research will develop a suite of tools that will facilitate the wider adoption of partnering relationships on projects.
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http://www.salford.ac.uk |