The Framework for Effective Human Resource Management at Construction Site

Abstract

Human resource management framework being one of the issue across global construction industries. It is a major concern in the construction industry because inefficiency, delay and cost from construction work could be affected and causing great losses to individuals and organizations. Therefore, resource management framework is changing the way resource management can be approached. Most of the construction companies around the world are implementing human resource management systems to reduce cost, eliminate delaying project, and to provide an efficient framework in their construction site. The objective of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of implementing human resource management framework in construction site. The methodology included is a combination of literature review, market studies and detailed questionnaire survey before starting the actual survey, a pilot study for this questionnaire was done, which confirms its acceptance. Based on findings from the researcher, most of the company and contractor firms have awareness about management of resource at construction site as human resource management is a major concern on construction industries.