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Women in construction boots: the enabling factors from the perspective of female adolescents

Shortage of local skilled workers still exists in the construction industry of Malaysia and this in general may affect its sustainability in the long term if the problem is allowed to continue. Presently, the main contractors have to employ foreign workers from less developed countries in order to f...

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Main Authors:	Abdul Majid, Masidah, Mohamed Yusoff, Wardah Fatimah, Sapian, Abdul Razak
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2020
Subjects:	BP2035 Life skills. Coping skills. Everyday living skills
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/78795/7/78795_Women%20in%20construction%20boots.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/78795/
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spelling	my.iium.irep.787952020-11-19T05:58:46Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/78795/ Women in construction boots: the enabling factors from the perspective of female adolescents Abdul Majid, Masidah Mohamed Yusoff, Wardah Fatimah Sapian, Abdul Razak BP2035 Life skills. Coping skills. Everyday living skills Shortage of local skilled workers still exists in the construction industry of Malaysia and this in general may affect its sustainability in the long term if the problem is allowed to continue. Presently, the main contractors have to employ foreign workers from less developed countries in order to fulfil the needs of manual manpower. However, the employment of foreign workers is not the solution which the country should adopt as their presence brings a lot of socio-economic problems. It is suggested that the industry should not only attract local male youth but start to encourage female to become construction skilled workers to widen up the pool of talents. The present paper reports the findings from a survey conducted among female adolescents in Selangor, Malaysia in order to have some understanding on what is the important factors that may attract female adolescents to consider to become construction skilled workers. A factor analysis has been performed and it is suggested that the policy makers should focus on these six important factors namely conviction, satisfaction, recognition, value, support and qualification factors in order to encourage more female local youth to become construction skilled workers 2020-02-02 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78795/7/78795_Women%20in%20construction%20boots.pdf Abdul Majid, Masidah and Mohamed Yusoff, Wardah Fatimah and Sapian, Abdul Razak (2020) Women in construction boots: the enabling factors from the perspective of female adolescents. International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 24. pp. 1-8. ISSN 1475-7192 10.37200/IJPR/V24I2/PR200501
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description	Shortage of local skilled workers still exists in the construction industry of Malaysia and this in general may affect its sustainability in the long term if the problem is allowed to continue. Presently, the main contractors have to employ foreign workers from less developed countries in order to fulfil the needs of manual manpower. However, the employment of foreign workers is not the solution which the country should adopt as their presence brings a lot of socio-economic problems. It is suggested that the industry should not only attract local male youth but start to encourage female to become construction skilled workers to widen up the pool of talents. The present paper reports the findings from a survey conducted among female adolescents in Selangor, Malaysia in order to have some understanding on what is the important factors that may attract female adolescents to consider to become construction skilled workers. A factor analysis has been performed and it is suggested that the policy makers should focus on these six important factors namely conviction, satisfaction, recognition, value, support and qualification factors in order to encourage more female local youth to become construction skilled workers
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title	Women in construction boots: the enabling factors from the perspective of female adolescents
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Women in construction boots: the enabling factors from the perspective of female adolescents

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