Motivating blue collar workforce towards construction industry

Abstract

The fundamental purpose of this study is to recognise the reasons for scarcity of the Blue Collar Workforce in construction industry today and highlight its impact, and to forward my recommendations with an intention of resolving the issue. As a Construction Professional, my great concern is, what will happen to the industry, if we keep on neglecting the people who brings the desires of clients, blended with innovativeness of architects, strengthened by engineers, enumerated by quantity surveyors, documented by contract administrators into reality according to the sequence of planning engineers, performed by builders and contractors, if no proper Blue Collar Workforce is available. Professionals such as client advisors, architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, planning engineers, contract administrators, builders, contractors etc. are working towards the future of the industry. Series of professional bodies are supporting them to develop their career status stanchion with professional development programmes, seminars, exhibitions, award ceremonies, annual general meetings, day outings, dinners and so on. Although there are thousands of Research Papers available in various means of publishing, I was unable to locate a single article addressing how to motivate people towards the core layer of the Construction Industry or to discuss the problems they are being experienced by the foundation layer of the industry. Hence, I have selected 'Motivating Blue Collar Workforce towards Construction Industry' as my research project for partial fulfillment of the requirement for the MSc in Construction Project Management at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.