Conference Session

Global and Cultural Issues in Construction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suat Gunhan, University of Texas, San Antonio; Gulsen Senol, Gediz University İzmır Institute of Technology; Sevgi Zeynep Dogan, Gediz University İzmır Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Construction

social psychologists. However, in the last decade these subjectsbecame more popular in regards to soft skills, business management and dispute resolution.Although, the number of studies whose focus are solely on the body language and nonverbalcommunication in conflict management, the construction related research is almost nonexistent.Therefore, the literature study in this paper is divided into two; first part focuses on bodylanguage as a tool of non-verbal communication in business perspective and second part focuseson the communication problems in the construction industry.Body Language & Non-verbal CommunicationBody language refers to nonverbal form of communication. According to Rane8, withoutcontribution of the non-verbal expressive