Human Resource Management in Construction Sector: An Annotated Bibliography

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
CONSTRUCTION SECTOR
STUDENT NAME

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CONSTRUCTION SECTOR
INTRODUCTION
For this annotated bibliography, general articles on attention and attraction in public
sector have been studied to get knowledge about public sectors. After reading articles on UK
public sector and Australian public sectors, I found that almost every country found
difficulties in maintaining human resource management in public sector. Out of all,
construction sector seemed to be more affected which is the reason behind my selection of
the topic in constructions sector. Challenges related to employee market are more in
construction sector as compared to the others. In order to make further study on this topic,
annotated bibliography on current peer reviewed journal articles have been made which will
form the basis of further investigation.
Article 1:
Wilkinson, A. J. (2012). Changing Patterns of Human Resource Management in
Construction. Retrieved from
https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/bitstream/handle/10072/52863/82728_1.pdf?
sequence=1
Key words: construction management, human focus, resource focus.
This article examines the need for construction sectors to give more emphasis to areas
like human investment along with giving value to the clients. Construction sectors play a

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vital part in economic condition of the country situated worldwide and due to the lack of
attention towards human resource management, its potential is not utilised efficiently. The
article mentions some factors that are directly related to the drawbacks in construction sector
along with reasons behind shutting down of small construction companies. The purpose of
the article is to give limelight to human management perspectives in regard to managing
people and workforce so that issues relating human management are diminished. Since the
affect of issues in HRM contributes to poor employment relation, this article also reflects
upon various other factors like health and safety of workers, skill shortages, migrant workers
and employee turnover. A literature review has been made after collecting information
related to macro and micro perspectives of HRM from credible sources which covers three
dimensions in HRM namely resource focus, human focus, and management focus. Secondly,
the article describes the structure of human management by focusing on the ways issues are
dealt with in different organisations by making a matrix of HRM perspective. After carrying
the research methodology, the article finds that lack of attention in HRM have affected the
construction sector adversely and is the root cause of difficulties faced in this sector.
While this study applies to public sector, its findings are useful in my study of construction
sector as this article points out potentiality in construction sector and ways through which this
industry can gain reputation. By demonstrating different viewpoints of authors, this article
has given scope for further research in finding out issues related organisational performance
and employee welfare perspective. The history of HRM described in the article emphasises
its enduring concern with human focal point which considers giving stress upon human
rights, wellbeing and fulfilling their needs. Managing employee relation through explicit and
implicit agreements can establish sound relation between employer and employees. This
article contains valuable information relating human management and its implications and
thus its findings will be used in my further analysis in construction sector. The brief analysis