Provisional reading list

McKenna, E. (2006) Business Psychology and Organisational Behaviour: A Student Handbook, Psychology Press.

DIRECTED READING FROM THE SET TEXTBOOK:
(Page numbers are for 2000 edition)
1. Organisations - Chapter 13 Organisational structure and design pp 421-38
2. Teams - Chapter 10 Teambuilding pp 327-51.
3. Motivation - Chapter 4 Motivation and job design, pp 88-116 and
4. Leadership - Chapter 11 Leadership and management style, pp 352-89.
5. Culture - Chapter 14 Organisational culture pp 469-497.
6. Conflict - Chapter 12 Power, politics and conflict pp 407-17.

Further references, available in the University library, for various aspects of the syllabus are fully cited in the distance learning style document supporting this unit. Supplementary material is also distributed to students.

Same as above.

Recommended Text:
Gary Clifford F. and Larson Erik W. (2008). Project Management: The Managerial Process, 4th Edition. McGraw Hill. ISBN: (International Student Edition ISBN: 9780071287517) and (Hardback ISBN-13: 9780073348179).

Other Relevant Texts:
- Meredith Jack R. and Mantel Samuel J. (2010) Project Management: A Managerial Approach, 7th Edition, John Wiley & sons.
- Kerzner Harold (2009) Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, 10th Edition, John Wiley & sons.
- Pinto Jeffrey k. (2007). Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage. Pearson Prentice Hall.
- Kerzner Harold (2006) Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence, John Wiley & sons.
- Kerzner Harold and Saladis Frank P. (2009) Value-Driven Project Management, John Wiley & sons, ISBN: 978-0-470-50080-4.

Useful Websites:
http://www.apm.org.uk/ Association for Project Management (APM) website.
http://www.pmi.org/ Project Management Institute (PMI) website.

Useful Journals:
Project Management Journal
International Journal of Project Management
PM Network
Harvard Business Review
MIT Sloan Management Review

- Erik W Larson and Clifford F Gray, 'Project Management: The Managerial Process', Student Edition - McGraw Hill Education 5th Edition, ISBN 0071287523, 2011.
- Bonnie Biafiore, 'Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual', O'Reilly 2007, ISBN 78-0-596-52836-2, 2007.

Recommended Text:
Lowe, D (Ed) with Leiringer R.(2006) Commercial Management of Projects: Defining the Discipline, Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 1-4051-2450-4

Additional useful texts:
- Helgeson, DV (1994) Engineers and Managers Guide to Winning Proposals, Artech House
- Kennedy, C and OConnor M (1997) Winning Major Bids: The Critical Success Factors, Policy Publications Ltd
- Lewis, H (2003) Bids, Tenders and Proposals: Winning Business Through Best Practice, Kogan Page
- Male and Stocks (Editors) (1991) Competitive Advantage in Construction, Butterworth Heinemann.
- Porter M (1985) Competitive Advantage: Creating and sustaining superior performance Collier Macmillan Publishers
- Rickards T (1997) Creativity and Problem Solving at Work Gower
- Skitmore, RM (1989) Contract Bidding in Construction: Strategic management and modelling, Longman Scientific and Technical.
- Tweedley, N (1995) Winning the Bid: A Managers Guide to Competitive Bidding, Pitman Publishing.

Recommended Text:
Maxwell, J.A. (1996). Qualitative Research Design. An Interactive Approach. Applied Social Research Methods Series. Volume 41, Sage Publications.
Bell, J. (2000). Doing Your Research Project. Open University Press, 3rd Edition.

Additional reading:
MSc in Commercial Management by Distance Learning, Module 7, Research Methodology (available online)

Recommended Text
O'Brien James A and Marakas George M. (2009) Management Information Systems, 9th edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 978-0-07-128043-3.

Other Relevant Texts
- Fuller Mark, Valacich Joe and George Joey (2008) Information Systems Project Management: A Process and Team Approach, Prentice Hall.
- Turban Efraim, Aronson Jay E, Liang Ting-Peng and Sharda Ramesh (2007) Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems, 8th Edition, Prentice Hall.
- Whitten Jeffrey L, Bentley Lonnie D. (2007) Systems Analysis and Design Methods, 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill.
- Haag Stephen, Maeve Cumming and Phillips Amy (2007) Management Information Systems for the Information age, 7th edition, McGraw-Hill.
- Cadle, J and Yeates, D (2004) Project Management for Information Systems, FT Prentice Hall.
- Thorp, J (2003) The Information Paradox, Revised Edition, McGraw-Hill.
- Ward, J and Peppard, J (2002) Strategic Planning for Information Systems, 3rd edition, Wiley.
- Checkland, P & Holwell, S (1997) Information, Systems & Information Systems, Wiley.
- Cameron, E and Green, M (2004) Making Sense of Change Management, Kogan Page.

Recommended Text:
- Fisher and Ury (1999), Getting to Yes ISBN 0-09-924842-5.

Additional useful texts:
- Brown, H and Marriot A. (1999) ADR Principles and Practice, Sweet and Maxwell. ISBN0421462604
- Nalebuff and Brandenburger, 1997, Co-petition ISBN 1861975074

- Merna, T & Al-Thani, F (2005), Corporate Risk Management an organisational perspective, Wiley, London
- Smith, N.J (2005), Managing Risks in Construction Projects, Second Edition, Blackwell Science, London
- Smith, N. J (2003), Appraisal, Risk and Uncertainty, Thomas Telford, London
- Association of Project Management (2004), PRAM Guide 2E; Project Risk Analysis and Management Guide 2nd Edition, ISBN: 978-1-903494-12-7
- Boussabaine, A.H. and Kirkham, R.J. (2004) Whole life-cycle costing: risk and risk responses, Blackwell Wiley, ISBN-10: 1405107863

- Christopher Wood, Environmental Impact Assessment a Comparative Review, Longman, 1995.
- Larry W Canter, Environmental Impact Assessment [2nd Ed], McGraw-Hill, 1996.
- Harrop & Nixon, Environmental Assessment in Practice, Routledge, 1999.
- ORiordan & Cameron, Interpreting the Precautionary Principle, Earthscan, 1994.
- David Reid, Sustainable Development, Earthscan, 1994.
- McEldowney & McEldowney, Environment and the Law, Longman, 1996.

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Recommended Text
Whitten Jeffrey L, Bentley Lonnie D. (2007) Systems Analysis and Design Methods, 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill (ISBN13: 9780071107662, ISBN10: 0071107665).

Other Relevant Texts
- Kendall Kenneth E. and Kendall Julie E. (2008) Systems Analysis and Design, 7th Edition, Prentice Hall.
- Hoffer J. A., George J. F. and Valcich J. S. (2008) Modern Systems Analysis and Design, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall.
- George Joey F., Batra Dinesh, Valacich Joseph S. and Hoffer Jeffrey A. (2007) Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall.
- Turban Efraim, Aronson Jay E, Liang Ting-Peng and Sharda Ramesh (2007) Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems, 8th Edition, Prentice Hall.
- Cadle, J and Yeates, D (2004) Project Management for Information Systems, FT Prentice Hall.
- Thorp J (2003) The Information Paradox, Revised Edition, McGraw-Hill.
- Avison, D and Fitzgerald, G (2003) Information Systems Development, 3rd Ed, McGraw-Hill.
- Ward, J and Peppard, J (2002) Strategic Planning for Information Systems, 3rd edition, Wiley.
- Checkland, P & Holwell, S (1997) Information, Systems & Information Systems, Wiley.

- Bower, D (ed)(2003), Management of Procurement, Thomas Telford Publishing.
- Winch, G M (2002), Managing Construction Projects, Blackwell Publishing.
- Smith, N J (2002), Engineering Project Management, 2nd edition, Blackwell Science.
- Uff, J (1999), Construction Law, 7th Edition, Sweet and Maxwell.

There is no reading list currently available

There is no reading list currently available

The enquiry based learning format of this unit is such that students will need to undertake literature searches specific to each individual project, but there are no set texts. However, the following references provide some background reading on different perspectives.

1. The Global Engineer: Incorporating global skills within UK higher education of engineers http://www.engineersagainstpoverty.org/_db/_documents/WEBGlobalEngineer_Linked_Aug_08_Update.pdf
2. DFID Progress in improving performance management National Audit Office http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/0809/dfid_progress_in_improving_pe.aspx
3. Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future http://www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm