CONST 310 Construction Industry Relationship Building 5 credits

1. Implement project delivery utilizing general business management concepts
2. Demonstrate how to work with HR for recruitment, hiring and separation. 
3. Apply Construction Principles of Management such as Total Quality Management and Partnering in order to lead an effective team.
4. Assess organizational behavior, organizational culture, and intercultural behaviors in order to strategize leadership techniques to improve organizational behavior and culture.
5. Evaluate various team building strategies such as showing gratitude for achieving effective team cohesiveness.   
6. Demonstrate how to communicate with persons having other perspectives in order to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion.
7. Develop relationship partners in the industry through networking. 

• Professionalism: Model professionalism in the construction industry through ethics and advocacy; team building; leadership; and mentorship.
• Communication: Compose, implement, and assess the efficacy of communications tools used in the construction industry to disseminate technical and professional business information to a diverse audience.

Core Abilities

• Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
• Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
• Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.