ࡱ> )+(9 bjbj%l          =(         \!      h    hhh p    h hlh    xߊ0 | 0=o @(o h      QIK 2005 The Level and the Quality of Managemnt in Construction Industry Prof.dr.sc. Barbara Medani, J.J. Strossmayer University  Faculty of Civil Engineering, Address: Crkvena 21  31000 Osijek- Croatia Tel.: +385 31 574389 Fax: 385 31 540071 E-mail:  HYPERLINK "mailto:bmedanic@gfos.hr" bmedanic@gfos.hr Prof.dr.sc. Mirko Punder, University of Maribor Faculty of Civil Engineering, Smetanova 17, Maribor- Slovenia note: Correspondence should be sent to prof. Medanic, E-mail:  HYPERLINK "mailto:bmedanic@gfos.hr" bmedanic@gfos.hr Abstract The submitted paper is based on the results of the years-long qualitative research into the level and the quality of management and leadership in a number of construction firms in Croatia. The said research has been realized in the framework of the long-term state research project Long-Term Development of Construction Industry, which is currently focusing on the stage Management of the Development in Macro- and Micro-Sense, Managing Infrastructure and Education for Management. This stage of the research included the definition and comparative analysis of the technical-technological and management levels of Croatian construction firms, and the accumulated data have been compared with the known indicators of the level and quality of macro and micro management throughout the world. It has been concluded that technically and technologically, both in the national and international framework, Croatian civil engineering is on an enviable level, i.e., there is a strong positive correlation between the home situation and the world trends in the domain of technique and technology. Opposite to this favorable state, the level of management and leadership is on a considerably lower qualitative level in comparison to the technical-technological level. In relation to the contemporary world trends in this area, management and leadership level is also lagging far behind. Therefore, there is a strong discrepancy in the Croatian construction practice, both in respect to the technical-technological level and to the level and the quality of management and leadership in representative construction firms all over the world. The search for the causes of such situation has shown that many of them originate in the surroundings, but at the same time, it has put in the foreground the completely inadequate initial education of, primarily, technical personnel for the carrying out managing-leading functions. These persons have, neither in the course of their regular undergraduate education, nor later through various forms of their permanent education, acquired other broader conceptual knowledge that is, beside the purely technical one, indispensable for management and leadership. Based on the acquired research results, efforts have been made, on one hand, to identify this broader conceptual knowledge that the leading technical persons are missing and that is required for management and leadership, and on the other hand, to offer the contents and the sources of this knowledge in the form of an integral curriculum for postgraduate education in the field of management on civil engineering, as well as on other technical faculties. The reasons why the acquiring of these additional fields of knowledge has been bound to technical faculties instead of the faculties of economic sciences should be sought in the specific characteristics of the construction industry in relation to the entire industry and to other segments of the economy, which are most frequently used as the polygon for the study of economic regularities in the study of economics, and which therefore do not meet the specific requirements of construction firms. In addition to the indispensable knowledge of humanities, this broader conceptual knowledge includes the group of mathematical-statistical subjects indispensable for the making of numerous strategic and current business decisions; knowledge about the corporate strategy and company policy and evaluation of their goals; knowledge about business decision-making, risk and management; knowledge about the marketing in the civil engineering, about total quality management, about the business efficiency diagnosing and programming models, about the reengineering of business processes and about the reengineering of management itself. &'78$%'01CJaJmHsH5CJaJmHsH 5:\0Jj5U\5\CJH9:V&'01 K u $dh7$8$H$`a$7$8$H$ $7$8$H$a$$a$$a$$a$ }$dh7$8$H$`a$#0P/ =!"#$% i8@8 NormalCJ_HaJmH sH tH 6A@6 Zadani font odlomka.U@. 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