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International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology (IJARET)
Volume 9, Issue 6, November-December 2018, pp. 19–29, Article ID: IJARET_09_06_003
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ISSN Print: 0976-6480 and ISSN Online: 0976-6499
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ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING HUMAN
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OF
CONSTRUCTION FIRMS AND PROBABLE
SOLUTIONS FOR THE REMEDY OF THE
ISSUES: TOWARDS SUCCESSFUL
COMPLETION
K.R Jose
Post Graduate Student. Dept of Civil Engg ICOER Wagholi
Prof. Abhijit Bhirud
Asst.Professor ICOER Wagholi, Pune, India
ABSTRACT
Over the last century until now, human resource management is practiced as a
discipline in the management of people in an organization, which evolved and
developed into different areas. In various business activities, human resources are
considered a valuable asset. The organization cannot operate effectively if there is a
scarcity or inefficiency of human resources. Being successful of any organization
depends upon the effective use of human resources. Human resource is one of the
main contribution forces for all kind of organization in India. Because of this,
management of human resource, i.e. Human Resource Management (HRM) should
have more important effect in India. Also, in the construction sector there is a lot of
variables in human resources and the human resources cannot be attended to the
industry in permanent form. Therefore, it is the need of the hour to study and
understand the Human Resource Management (HRM) in the construction industry.
Through the study of literatures it has been found that there is a lack of fine grained
qualitative and quantitative analysis in this filed. Due to this lack of qualitative and
quantitative research, there is no good-developed framework for factors affecting
HRM in the construction industry. Thus this paper aims to analyses the factors
affecting the human resource management in construction sector. For analysis 75
factors were considered and it is divided in 14 Main Criteria as: (a) Job Analysis and
HR Planning, (b) Recruitment and Selection, (c) Education and Training, (d)
Performance Appraisal, Motivation and Retaining, (e) Compensation and Rewards, (f)
Employment Relations, (g) Health and Safety, (h) Other External Factors. Data will be
collected by personal interviews targeting Engineers, Project Managers, HR
Managers and Contractors through questionnaires. All factors affecting the HRM have been
analyzed and the main problems of human resource management in the construction of a
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sustainable project have been identified. The main methods for improvement have also
been discovered and the solutions are listed as recommendations in this paper.
Keywords: construction industry, human resource management, teams, surveys,
human resource analysis
Cite this Article: K.R Jose and Prof. Abhijit Bhirud, Analysis of Factors Affecting
Human Resource Management of Construction Firms and Probable Solutions for the
Remedy of the Issues: Towards Successful Completion International Journal of
Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology, 9(6), 2018, pp19–29.
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1 INTRODUCTION
Construction is an activity or a process that associated with building or assembling an
infrastructure. Large scale construction is a feat of multi-tasking. In normal case this project
job is designed by Design Engineer, Project Architect, construction Engineer and managed by
the Project Manager, and supervised by the Construction Manager. For the successful
completion of any sustainable development construction project, many aspects must be taken
into consideration, inclusive of planning and management, such as human resource, safety and
health, delays happening in construction, the architectural designing and engineering,
availability of quality material; the clients need, and financial or economic limitations. One of
the aspects which is crucial in this study is ‘Human resource management’ (HRM) and
‘Human resources’ (HR) is replaced with the term ‘personnel management’ as a description of
the processes involved in managing different people in organizations. In short, Human
Resource Management HRM means employment of people, developing their capacities,
utilizing, maintaining and compensating their services in tune with the job and organizational
requirement.
This analysis will give special importance or emphasize and discuss about HRM in the
construction of a sustainable development project as the main factor for success of the
construction project. In addition to this, this will also analyze the factors that influence HRM
and find the methods or the ways that enhance and improve it.
2. AIM AND OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
There are two objectives in this study. First is to identify HRM as one of the key aspects in
the success of constructing projects. And the second is to addresses a second objective in
identifying the problems or issues of human resource in the construction of a sustainable
development project and finds the methods to improve it.
3. SCOPE OF STUDY
The scope of this research work of development of framework for human resource
management considered for the 10- 20 construction sites in the city of Central Pune Region
is
of India Maharashtra.
4. SURVEYWORK AND DATA COLLECTION
The prepared Questionnaire on human resource management in Construction industry is
distributed to labors as well as all the personnel included in the construction process and their
responses have been extracted. Responses obtained from all the three levels ie, large scale,
medium scale and small scale of construction companies are equally distributed.
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The data will be collected from 20 sites on which the construction activities are in
development phase, the prepared questionnaire will be distributed and responses will be noted
by their interviews.
Our aim of collecting data is to gather information regarding HRM and human resource
itself in construction site. The data was collected by conducting using qualitative research
which is concerned with testing the theory presented in the objective.
According to the targeted City and Stakeholders, the total no. of available population for
survey was 85 from 10-20 construction firms. Table-1 represents the distribution of the
sample population among the city considered for the study. The number of construction firms
for Pune is taken from the list of registered contractors of Building Department of
Maharashtra and from the list from yellow pages
Table 1 Study Population
Project Location No. staff involved
Name of lead firm
Marvel Arco Hadapsar, Pune Marvel Realtors 3
Castel Royale Magnifique Bopodi, Pune ABIL 6
Kalpataru serenity
Manjri, pune Kalpataru group Ltd 6
Kolte Patil Life Republic
Hinjewadi, Pune Kolte Patil Developers 6
Sector R2 2nd Avenue
Elite Landmarks.
Hadapsar, Pune 5
Sun sapphire Mittal Grp Ltd
Godrej Elements Hinjewadi, Pune Godrej Properties 10
Majestique Landmarks
Majestique Landmarks Wagholi, Pune 3
3
Skyi Songbirds Bavdhan, pune Enerrgia Skyi Ventures LLP
Skyi Aquila Baner, Pune Enerrgia Skyi Ventures LLP 4
2
DS Utopia Moshi, Pune D S Group
Fria 2 Wagholi, Pune Marvel Realtors 3
Kolte Patil Centria NIBM, Pune Kolte-Patil developers 3
Venkatesh Graffiti Mundhwa, Pune Shree Venkatesh Buildcon 3
Keshav nagar,
Oxford Florida Riverwalk Earth and Oxford Group 4
pune
TCG The Cliff Garden Hinjewadi, Pune TCG Real Estate 6
Rohan Abhilasha Wagholi, Pune Rohan Builders 4
Ideal Spacio Undri, Pune Marvel Realtors 3
Little Earth Rawet, pune Disha Loharuka Infratech Pvt. Ltd 5
Onella Nest Phase 2 Sus, Pune Nimhan Associates, 2
Izara NIBM, Pune Marvel Realtors 4
5. PROBLEM STATEMENTS
The construction industry is being faced many breakdown because of the poor performance of
the industries. The skill and education level of staff and workers are also the reasons of poor
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function of construction Industry. With rapid changes in technology, workers’ needs, current
market, and competitive environment, planning for human resources has become an important
and challenging task for development. The construction industry characteristics present a
challenging context for effective management of human resources. The increase in appointing
or use of subcontractors has allowed contractors to pass on the risk and achieve greater
flexibility, it has also made project co-ordination more complex, so more highly skilled and
experienced management is required. Furthermore, the fluctuation in the organizations’
workload cause significant variations in firms’ staffing needs, both in terms of volume and
professional skill profiles. Hence for the sustainable development of the project analysis of
the human resources has become a very significant task.
6. CHOICE OF STUDY AREA
The study was carried out within the city of Pune, Maharashtra. Selecting the location was
based on three main factors:
1) Pune is currently experiencing a high concentration of multi-million physical
development projects (PDP) compared to other cities both by private developers and
government agencies.
2) the current urban renewal projects that have either been completed or are under
construction have a complete team of various stakeholders that are responsible for analytical
causes that was useful to the study and
3) Most of these projects were being financed by banks and other development partners
coupled with the high level of investments in them; the developers are under the pressure of
completing the project on time, and within the budget and to the desired quality so as to put
the final product in to use immediately to get quick returns to service the loans and therefore
time is of great concern to the developers which in turn depends on the performance of human
resources involved.
7. LITERATURE REVIEW
The basic objective of this chapter is to get inside into the previous findings so that it will help
to know the gap in earlier studies and to justify the research problem selected by the
researcher for the study purpose. The literature is reviewed on human resource management
(HRM), human resource development (HRD) and human resource practices (HRP) and on
RII/development/practices. The prominent areas covered in the present literature of reviewed
are studies related to concept, model, system, functions, organizational culture and climate,
training and development, performance appraisal, recruitment and selection, man power
planning, promotion, welfare and fringe, rewards and recognition and other issues on HR and
RII practices. Indian and international studies are studied.
D. Prasanna Kumar, A. Satish, SS. Asadi has purposely done an experiment to
investigate the human resources management in construction industry using analytical
approach. They have performed a questionnaire survey to Analyzed with the AHP Model to
make the decisions and alternatives for the problems associated with the Human Resources
Management.
Singh Anil Kumar in the paper, ‘Philosophy of management and human resource
management in Indian organization’ has assessed various HRM practices in Indian
organization and examine the relationship between HRD practices and the philosophy of
management.
Seyyed Shahab Hosseiniana, Zahra Jabbarani Torghabehb Aziruddin Ressang- The
authors aim to study to investigate and prioritize factors affecting construction hazards in the
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