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Sustainable strategies for high local youth employment in the construction workforce in Malaysia / Norizzati Ibrahim, Z.Y. Zulkiflee and Atikah Najwa Zainuddin

The construction industry in Malaysia is heavily dependent on foreign workers. Unfortunately, it seems that the local youth would prefer to be unemployed rather than be employed in construction sites. Archival data from the Labor Force Survey Report was compiled to determine the trend of youth parti...

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Main Authors: Ibrahim, Norizzati, Z. Y, Zulkiflee, Zainuddin, Atikah Najwa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Negeri Sembilan 2018
Subjects:
TA Engineering. Civil engineering
Engineering as a profession. Engineers
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spelling my.uitm.ir.296492020-04-21T00:22:32Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29649/ Sustainable strategies for high local youth employment in the construction workforce in Malaysia / Norizzati Ibrahim, Z.Y. Zulkiflee and Atikah Najwa Zainuddin Ibrahim, Norizzati Z. Y, Zulkiflee Zainuddin, Atikah Najwa TA Engineering. Civil engineering Engineering as a profession. Engineers The construction industry in Malaysia is heavily dependent on foreign workers. Unfortunately, it seems that the local youth would prefer to be unemployed rather than be employed in construction sites. Archival data from the Labor Force Survey Report was compiled to determine the trend of youth participation in the construction workforce. The findings indicate that local youth participation has never exceeded 25% of the total construction workforce. An extensive survey was also carried out on youth at vocational training centers to determine their current perception of a career in the construction industry especially in construction sites. Surprisingly, the findings of the survey found that 3’D (difficult, dangerous and dirty) image is no longer a main factor in distracting local youth from pursuing career in the construction workforce. Hence, the strategies have been adopted based on extensive feedback from self-administered questionnaire survey to acquire perception 288 local youth who are taking the non-construction courses at GIATMARA Malaysia. Construction industry experts representing Government Authority, Researcher and contractor were also interviewed to obtain an insight on what went wrong with the previous and current initiatives to attract youth into the construction industry and how things can be done better. This study has attempted to produce more effective and sustainable strategies that can transform the construction industry into a preferred sector of employment for local youth. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Negeri Sembilan 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29649/1/29649.pdf Ibrahim, Norizzati and Z. Y, Zulkiflee and Zainuddin, Atikah Najwa (2018) Sustainable strategies for high local youth employment in the construction workforce in Malaysia / Norizzati Ibrahim, Z.Y. Zulkiflee and Atikah Najwa Zainuddin. Journal of Academia, 6 (1). pp. 53-66. ISSN 2289-6368 https://nsembilan.uitm.edu.my/joacns/
institution Universiti Teknologi Mara
building Tun Abdul Razak Library
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language English
topic TA Engineering. Civil engineering
Engineering as a profession. Engineers
spellingShingle TA Engineering. Civil engineering
Engineering as a profession. Engineers
Ibrahim, Norizzati
Z. Y, Zulkiflee
Zainuddin, Atikah Najwa
Sustainable strategies for high local youth employment in the construction workforce in Malaysia / Norizzati Ibrahim, Z.Y. Zulkiflee and Atikah Najwa Zainuddin
description The construction industry in Malaysia is heavily dependent on foreign workers. Unfortunately, it seems that the local youth would prefer to be unemployed rather than be employed in construction sites. Archival data from the Labor Force Survey Report was compiled to determine the trend of youth participation in the construction workforce. The findings indicate that local youth participation has never exceeded 25% of the total construction workforce. An extensive survey was also carried out on youth at vocational training centers to determine their current perception of a career in the construction industry especially in construction sites. Surprisingly, the findings of the survey found that 3’D (difficult, dangerous and dirty) image is no longer a main factor in distracting local youth from pursuing career in the construction workforce. Hence, the strategies have been adopted based on extensive feedback from self-administered questionnaire survey to acquire perception 288 local youth who are taking the non-construction courses at GIATMARA Malaysia. Construction industry experts representing Government Authority, Researcher and contractor were also interviewed to obtain an insight on what went wrong with the previous and current initiatives to attract youth into the construction industry and how things can be done better. This study has attempted to produce more effective and sustainable strategies that can transform the construction industry into a preferred sector of employment for local youth.
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author Ibrahim, Norizzati
Z. Y, Zulkiflee
Zainuddin, Atikah Najwa
author_facet Ibrahim, Norizzati
Z. Y, Zulkiflee
Zainuddin, Atikah Najwa
author_sort Ibrahim, Norizzati
title Sustainable strategies for high local youth employment in the construction workforce in Malaysia / Norizzati Ibrahim, Z.Y. Zulkiflee and Atikah Najwa Zainuddin
title_short Sustainable strategies for high local youth employment in the construction workforce in Malaysia / Norizzati Ibrahim, Z.Y. Zulkiflee and Atikah Najwa Zainuddin
title_full Sustainable strategies for high local youth employment in the construction workforce in Malaysia / Norizzati Ibrahim, Z.Y. Zulkiflee and Atikah Najwa Zainuddin
title_fullStr Sustainable strategies for high local youth employment in the construction workforce in Malaysia / Norizzati Ibrahim, Z.Y. Zulkiflee and Atikah Najwa Zainuddin
title_full_unstemmed Sustainable strategies for high local youth employment in the construction workforce in Malaysia / Norizzati Ibrahim, Z.Y. Zulkiflee and Atikah Najwa Zainuddin
title_sort sustainable strategies for high local youth employment in the construction workforce in malaysia / norizzati ibrahim, z.y. zulkiflee and atikah najwa zainuddin
publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA, Negeri Sembilan
publishDate 2018
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29649/1/29649.pdf
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