Human Resource Management in Construction Industry

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1.0 Adu-Darkoh, M. (2014). Employee recruitment and selection practices in the construction
industry in Ashanti Region.
1.1 Main idea of the article
The processes that are identified for the recruitment of the workers in the construction
industry are obtained from two types of recruitment are internal and external recruitment-
internal and external recruitment procedure. The research design utilizes the cross sectional
survey design in order to collect; moreover, the quantitative analysis which is cross-checked with
secondary source of data. Primary data collection is considered in this research where sixty-two
(62) contractors and 30 human resource officers. The sampling technique used is simple random
sampling technique. Close ended and open ended question and includes demographic questions
and questions related to the Recruitment and Selection issues. The data has been obtained and the
analysis is done through SPSS.
In internal recruitment, the construction company follows the process of transfers,
promotions, job postings and job bidding. However, through external recruitment process the
managers of Construction Company utilize the method of advertisement, e-recruitment,
employee referrals, employment agencies, labor office and education and training establishment.
The conclusion highlighted that after the recruitment procedure, the selection of the staffs are
base on the initial screening, interview to the staffs, reference check for the genuineness of the
candidate, selection test and then providing them the job offer. It is found from this article that
some problem that occurred to the HR department while making the right decision for the
recruitment are poor HR planning, ineffective job analysis, poor budget allocation of the cost of
recruitment and selection of the employee.
1.2 Useful concepts of the articles utilized in the essay

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The six most used recruitment and selection method in the construction industry are- in-
house job postings, newspaper advertisements, labor office, employee referable and radio
advertisements. In aspect of the challenges identification in case of staff recruitment in the
concerned organization are provision of cost and time of recruitment and selection procedures,
lack of human resource department, proper job analysis, proper analysis of the competency
level of the candidates, maintaining the employer-employee relationship and finding suitable
candidates for certain job locations. Human Resource department of a construction company
thus have to do expert analysis for the recruitment of the candidates and assessing their
capability, advertising the job vacancy on the public ground, maintaining checklists and
detailed description of the available jobs and set strict rule for making selection based on the
competency of the candidates.

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2.0 Ahmed, S., & Briggs, K. (2012). Effective recruitment and selection strategies for skilled
laborers in heavy highway construction
2.1 Main idea of the article
The sample size considered for the research paper is 5 different heavy highway
construction firm of the United States. The article do not represented any numeric data and a
theoretical interpretation of the survey result has been discussed in this article. There are no
hypothesis considered in this research paper and followed a descriptive research design. The
main idea of this article is to find out the ways that the HR department of the construction
organization to selected skilled laborers to perform tasks on the projects. This research paper also
emphasizes on the selection procedure of the candidates within the job seeking pool along with
the procedure for implementing improvement recruiting and selection practices. A critical
analysis of the recruitment and selection procedure has been carried out so that the most relevant
and reliable procedure for the candidate selection can be identified.
2.2 Useful concepts of the articles utilized in the essay
The article highlights the problem that if the candidates of mega construction project are
not selected effectively, the company have to incur the loss of poor retention rates, increased
amount of the cost for advertising and recruitment and loss of production. The idea that can be
extracted from this research is important factors for recruitment that are- formality, subtlety, and
cost along with local and state regulations. The low cost procedure for recruitment is employee
referrals in which the employee themselves take the liability to choose suitable candidates for
the organizational project. Interview method or a formal approach can be the best but having a
drawback that the performance of the candidates cannot be identified properly. Knowledge test
and situational assessment can be selected for evaluating the competency and measure the