| SMART JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STUDIES |
VOL. 10 |
NO. 2 |
PAPER 5 |
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WORKFORCE CHALLENGES IN THE INDIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
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| Veena Vohra
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| Associate Professor, School of Business Management,
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), V.L.Mehta Road,
Vile Parle West, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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| India’s construction industry faces high demand for quality infrastructure construction from the housing, transportation and development segments. Despite employing a large workforce, the Indian Construction Industry does not have effective human resource practices in place to leverage the potential of the workforce. High attrition levels among experienced employees and perpetual low supply of trained manpower at most levels, afflict companies in this sector. This paper attempts to capture the existing challenges associated with managing the workforce in the Indian Construction Sector. An exploratory approach was adopted to collect data at two levels-first, to ascertain and identify the workforce practices being followed by Indian construction companies and second, to identify the workforce-associated challenges being faced by the human resource professionals in this sector. |
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