Business practices for surveyors
Greenway, Iain
The world is changing. We are all very aware of this, and that the rate of change is increasing. These changes impact on surveying businesses as least as much as they impact on other businesses. In many cases, however, the education and training of surveyors (of every discipline) gives a good deal of time to technological developments and their impacts, but rather less time to the changing challenges of management. A particular strand of the change is that public expectations of professionals are growing. Ethical and other priorities can be particularly tangled for professionals such as surveyors, with their sense of duty being split in a number of different directions Allred (1999) suggests that professionals are subject to (often conflicting) standards of their own, their company, their profession, and the public. In light of these increasing challenges, FIG (the International Federation of Surveyors) has collated practical guidance for surveyors, to provide reference material covering some of the business challenges they are likely to face. This paper outlines some of the key areas for such challenges, and gives an overview of responses that need to be made by survey firms if they are to flourish. It draws heavily on an FIG Publication entitled Business Matters for Professionals (FIG, 2002).
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