Managing people in the Construction Industry

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION1

Background of the Study1

Problem Statement2

Aims and Objectives2

CHAPTER 02: LITERATURE REVIEW4

Human Resource4

Definition of terms6

Safety issues in Construction industry9

Safety Strategies in Construction Projects9

Theoretical Framework10

Leadership in Construction Industry11

Accident Causation Models13

Multiple Causation Model14

Behaviour Model14

Leadership Style in Construction Industry15

Building and Other Construction Workers Act in India16

The revised Construction Design and Management Regulations in UK18

Policy decisions and skill shortage20

Practical Implications for HR Managers20

Level of interaction between construction professionals and HR managers21

Conclusion25

REFERENCES27

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

The construction industry is distinguished by change and uncertainty. A quickly altering financial natural environment, altering clientele claims, and ever-increasing product-market affray has become the norm for most organizations. The rate of change in building associations is expanding with forces from external environments (e.g., demographic, financial, lawful and regulatory, political, communal, and technological) impersonating an unprecedented allowance of risk to the productivity and competitiveness of building organizations. To contend in an ever-changing, increasingly-demanding financial natural environment, businesses should constantly advance their presentation by decreasing charges, innovating goods and methods, and advancing value, productivity, and effectively organise the persons (Bennett, 1995, 66).

People administration is very significant in construction industry; companies can maintain a comparable benefit only by conceiving worth in a way that is uncommon and tough for competitors to imitate. With this disturbance of external environments, businesses should evolve interior human asset administration schemes which are flexible and inclusive of persons with changing ability groups for this comparable advantage. In evolving these schemes, businesses should address matters for example the organization's strategic dream and its outlook of human resources. Human assets, both as work and an enterprise function can have an important result on firm performance. Research has shown that an productive human assets scheme can positively sway a firm's market worth and for a new firm, human assets can sway the likelihood of survival. Unfortunately, human asset administration in building has normally been an emergent other than a strategic or premeditated method which has produced in the infrequent use of comprehensive workforce administration schemes in the industry (Carroll, 2006, 53).

Problem Statement

The discussion of people management is a broad and complex one, especially in an industry as diverse as construction which employs unskilled and skilled crafts workers, clerical and professional staff, and a variety of construction professionals. With an understanding that employers must develop more effective ways of rewarding and developing their workforces to compete for new hires and retain their current personnel, the goal ...