Dr Florence Phua
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Associate Professor
Office
121Building location
Chancellor's BuildingAreas of interest
- Individual- and group-level constructs and their impact on organizational performance in the construction industry
- The impacts of organizational and construction specific factors on the effectiveness of human resource practices.
- The business and management implications of corporate social strategies for construction industry competitiveness
Postgraduate supervision
Morwenna Fellows - Migrant workers as informal interpreters on construction sites
Mohamed Alzarouni – Learning in the community energy sector in England and the role of networks in its facilitation
Anna Pina – Women owner-managers of small construction firms: a social identity approach
Frederick Elangwe – Construction work practices affecting health and safety policies
Debs Harding – Lived experiences relating to entrepreneurial intention and career journeys
Teaching
Convenorship:
CE3HRM – Human Resource Management (UG)
CEM205 – Human Resource Management (MSc)
Research centres and groups
University of Reading Organisations, People and Technology GroupBackground
Dr Phua's research broadly focuses on both academic and topical applied organisational and cross-cultural management issues in the construction industry. This includes investigating aspects of organisational behaviour and the micro-interdependent factors affecting the dynamics of construction project outcomes and their corresponding contextual environments.
Academic qualifications
PhD Construction and Organization Management 2002 (University of Hong Kong)
MSc Project Management 1998 (University of Hong Kong)
BSc(Hons) in Quantity Surveying 1996 (University of Greenwich)
Professional bodies/affiliations
Fellow Chartered Institute of Building (FCIOB)
Fellow Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS)
Fellow Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Joint Editor-in-Chief
Construction Management and Economics