'Show me the compassion!' Changing the organisational mind within construction industry

Abstract

The construction industry is highly adversarial, with multiple parties each with their own agenda and needs drowning in the sea of uncertainty. This paper, through an extended literature review, introduced a theoretical model of how the organisational mind can influence organisational culture, with implications for all aspects of the construction industry. Finding new and innovative ways of building is going to take the shared experience of all the minds within the 'organisation'. The outcomes of the research show that certain mental attributes are trained as a result of practicing self-compassion, compassion, empathy, perspective and mindfulness. Those practices for example and others potentially enable the culture within the organisation to flow through imitative learning, having a positive effect on stakeholders who interact.Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Barrett, D. and Khalfan, M.M.A. (2018) ''Show me the compassion!' Changing the organisational mind within construction industry', Int. . He has several years of experience working, mostly in residential sector, as both construction manager and project manager within the Australian construction industry. 'Show me the compassion!'41 Malik M.A. Khalfan has more than 19 years of research, teaching, consultancy and construction industry experience by working in the UK, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and the UAE. He has published more than 150 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings.

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