Outsourcing is the practice of hiring a party outside a company to create products and perform services that traditionally were performed in-house by the company’s own employees and staff. The decision to give certain functions to an outside service provid …

Many concepts related to Quality Management have originated in the manufacturing industry and their implementation is being attempted in the construction industry. Manufacturing industry is characterized by steady‐state processes whereas the construction i …

Value Engineering is a phrase tossed around lightly in our industry. It is an approach taken to analyse and affect a system or a project so as to provide the necessary function that it is intended to produce at the lowest cost. Since this activity has dire …

The advent of many social media platforms and networking sites has greatly impacted the way in which organizations and potential employees interact with each other. In this context, one would be entitled to wonder if the traditional method of head-hunting …