Strategies to enhance foreign workers skills at construction site

Abstract

The fragmented and unstable nature of the construction industry associated with unpleasant working milieu caused the diminishing preference of potential manpower to participate in the construction industry. An increasing number of construction firms are experiencing severe outflow of the workforce, not limited to loss of manpower, but contemporaneously, expertise and valuable experiences too. The construction industry is conservative and particularly resistant to synchronise with hectic and rapid changes to content and accommodate current demands. Accumulation of a few causes such as the refusal of locals to involve, unsatisfied working conditions, labour-intensive trades and as like caused workforce paucity as the supplies unable to overcome and cope in-parallel with the demands. The aim of this study is to generate strategies to enhance or improve the skills of the foreign workers. The respondents are mainly the foreign workers at construction sites. The questionnaire focus on the worker’s perspective on various parties roles’ that might help them to increase their construction skills. From the result gathered, most respondents are interested in incentives in employee training, certification program and better standardised wages, that can help them to further enchance the skill level and subsequently upgrade their living status.