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Crowe, P (2014) Motivation agenda for social empowerment and respect for people during the drafting of construction contracts. In: Raiden, A and Aboagye-Nimo, E (Eds.), Proceedings 30th Annual ARCOM Conference, 1-3 September 2014, Portsmouth, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 557–66.

  • Type: Conference Proceedings
  • Keywords: motivation; contracts
  • ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9552390-8-3
  • URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/ar2014-0557-0566_Crowe.pdf
  • Abstract:

    Collaboration is a key element of the UK Government’s current construction strategy. Contracts in the UK are evolving to incorporate an increasing number of collaborative features. In construction literature, there are calls for a more robust approach to the selection of such features relating to overall clients’ performance requirements, with clients wishing to improve the overall performance of supply chains. The output of the supply chain is dependent on their workforce, with a key element of performance relating to motivation. There is work in psychology that provides an element of generalisation to human motivation, which establishes enablers of intrinsic motivation that improves workplace vitality, health and wellbeing. The aim of this paper is to provide a framework to assist practitioners make decisions that enable intrinsic motivation. The work establishes the basis of the hierarchy from robust work in psychology (self-determination theory); and relates the hierarchy to suites of contracts operating in the UK including the JCT, NEC, FIDIC and ACA suites. Document and summative content analysis evaluates different contractual mechanisms. The research establishes a critical approach to the incorporation of collaborative features in contracts that links to autonomy, competence and relatedness. Further research should be undertaken to explore construction contracts as enablers for social empowerment and respect for people.