Initiatives drawn for local skilled construction workers in Malaysia / Norazlin Mat Salleh … [et al.]

Mat Salleh, Norazlin and Hussien, Edelin and Syed Jamalulil, Syarifah Nur Nazihah and Muhammad, Nurul Huda and Ibrahim, Irma Hanie (2018) Initiatives drawn for local skilled construction workers in Malaysia / Norazlin Mat Salleh … [et al.]. In: 3rd International Conference on Rebuilding Place (ICRP2018), 13-14 September 2018, Impiana Hotel, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

Abstract

High skilled human resources have become increasingly demanded and important by employers in Malaysia. However, it is become challenges in terms of the availability of local skilled labour to fulfil the vacancies in construction projects. Even thought there are substantial numbers of graduates and trainees produced by the Technical, Vocational education and Training (TVET) but employers are still reliance on unskilled foreign labour to work in construction site. Therefore, the objectives of research to provides an overview of Malaysian construction industry and to identify the initiatives has been planned to encourage local skilled labour to enter construction labour market. The commitments of the government were not isolated supported with industries on this issue and the improvement and enhancement for the young generation are unlimited. Currently, construction sector is including under key contributors to the Malaysian economics with services, manufacturing, mining and quarrying and agriculture. A review from various published documents to the present has been used to provide a comprehensive summary of literature on initiatives to raise the participation of local skilled construction workers to works at the
construction site. Primarily, the initiatives can be divide into three main categories such as fund, education and technology. Such result indicates that, the initiatives are injection of fund by government, transforming and rebranding Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) especially construction based training programmed and the usage of high technology such as Integrated Building System (IBS) to reduced dependency on unskilled foreign workers. The initiatives identified by this research will form a basis for future research on the Malaysian construction industry

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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Creators:
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Email / ID Num.
Mat Salleh, Norazlin
noraz470@perak.uitm.edu.my
Hussien, Edelin
edeli507@perak.uitm.edu.my
Syed Jamalulil, Syarifah Nur Nazihah
syari5008@perak.uitm.edu.my
Muhammad, Nurul Huda
nurul885@perak.uitm.edu.my
Ibrahim, Irma Hanie
irmah659.uitm.edu.my
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Labor. Work. Working class > Labor. Work environment
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Labor. Work. Working class > Human capital
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Labor. Work. Working class > Human capital > Malaysia
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Labor. Work. Working class > Labor market. Labor supply. Labor demand, Including unemployment, manpower policy, occupational training, employment agencies
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Work groups. Teams in the workplace
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Labor. Work. Working class > Professions (General). Professional employees
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perak > Seri Iskandar Campus
Event Title: 3rd International Conference on Rebuilding Place (ICRP2018)
Event Dates: 13-14 September 2018
Page Range: pp. 232-243
Keywords: Construction, Workers, Initiatives, Skilled Labour
Date: 2018
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45537
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