• Feature Story: Does money drive performance with construction executives?
  
• Construction HR News: OSHA offers web-based compliance tools for construction industry
  
• HR Resource Spotlight: Are you looking for a web based quick solution to identifying your human resources potential pitfalls?
  
• HR Exec: What HR Exec offers the Human Resources Executive in Construction
  

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FEATURE STORY:
Does money drive performance with construction executives?
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Construction CEO's often struggle with motivating their executives to top performance levels. They know that money usually does not provide a long-term motivator that will drive executives to higher levels of long-term performance - especially construction executives whose basic financial needs are usually being met. Construction executives who feel they are not being fairly compensated are likely to lose motivation. Most CEO's agree that as long as their executives view their pay as being fair, the lure of more money is not likely to drive performance.

Recent retention studies from Hay Consulting Group and Hornberger Management Company's Annual Construction Executive Retention Survey indicate that executives work hardest and achieve more for "meaning in their lives" and for "job challenge" than any other reason. According to these studies, contractors who ignore these primary motivators and choose to motivate by money, are simply "bribing their executives" and undermining their employee's long-term retention, loyalty and commitment.

Unfortunately the easy path for CEO's is to blame their executive's lack of hard work and motivation on today's uncertain economic, social and political climate. Yet over 73% of executives surveyed in an August 2004 Construction Executive Online poll indicated that today's construction executives want to feel challenged and fulfilled at work. "Executives want to take pride in what they do, belong to a winning team, and be part of a firm that they truly believe in," says Kevin Carney, Marketing Director for Construction Executive Online. The August poll also indicated that construction executives believe that a primary problem with their motivation is a lack of "inspiring leadership" from their CEO. "Many CEO's are not as effective at inspiring or empowering their executives to work harder than they believe they are, according to the executives we spoke with. We head that the more a CEO wants commitment and higher levels of performance from its executives, the more he or she must involve their executives in establishing work goals, defining specific plans for achievement, and providing them with the autonomy and resources to be successful," says Carney.

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CONSTRUCTION HR NEWS:
OSHA offers web-based compliance tools for construction industry
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) debuted a new construction module for its Compliance Assistance Quick Start web tool that introduces employers and employees, especially those at new or small businesses, to compliance assistance resources on OSHA's web site.

The module provides a step-by-step guide to help employers and workers in the construction industry comply with OSHA's construction standards. Visitors to the page can generate a set of compliance assistance materials tailored to their jobsites.

The module addresses leading hazards at construction sites; provides links to relevant OSHA compliance assistance resources; includes information on training, recordkeeping and developing a worksite safety and health program; and features a collection of OSHA's Spanish-language materials for the construction industry.

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HR RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT:
Human Resources Web Based Audit for Construction Companies
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HR Exec provides a solution for small and medium based companies who would like to evaluate current employment practices and procedures, while determining how they compare with the competition.

The assessment, which takes less than 30 minutes to complete and will assess 14 different areas of operations. An immediate full detailed report and online subscription to future comparisons is available online upon completion. We can also provide a consultant to go over the report and identify any current or future risks and assist in finding the solutions to those situations

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HR EXEC:
What HR Exec offers the Human Resources Executive in Construction
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HR Exec, Inc. is a career advancement and consulting firm exclusively for human resources executives within the construction industry. We help human resources executives by providing an online place to publish their construction HR jobs and personal resumes, view career articles, obtain career coaching and counseling, have their resumes professionally written and distributed, view newswires of recent executive appointments, research HR software, or engage in succession planning, executive marketing, and retention planning services.

In addition, we help human resources executives with recruitment of HR professionals to join their human resources team, and can assist with locating the right construction recruiter for their non-human resource (HR) employment needs.

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