Evaluating Challenges: Educating Indian Migrants in Green Construction

This report delves into the challenges associated with educating Indian migrants in the green construction industry. It aims to investigate these challenges and propose potential solutions, addressing research questions regarding cultural and communication barriers, migrant attitudes, and the complexity of green construction. The methodology involves a primary quantitative data collection method informed by previous literature, employing interpretivism and a deductive research approach with meta-analysis and likelihood sampling. Secondary data analysis identifies challenges, evaluates the effort required from project management, and compares the capabilities of Indian migrants to local labor. The findings highlight barriers such as cultural differences, communication issues, and specific migrant attitudes. The report proposes a 6E model (Evaluate, Encourage, Expand, Explore, Explain, Embark) as a mitigating strategy and acknowledges limitations like resource constraints and gaps in research. The conclusion emphasizes the potential of properly educated Indian migrants and suggests future research directions using primary data collection methods to improve the reliability of the findings and explore further challenges in educating workers in the construction industry.

CHALLENGES IN
EDUCATING INDIAN
MIGRANTS
GREEN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

INTRODUCTION
Green Construction is a challenging task and its
amplify when the migrants are involved. It is because
they need to be educated with the construction method
of the country and hence, the deemed research work
will evaluate the challenges that are associated with
educating Indian migrants in green construction.

RESEARCH AIM
The aim of the paper is to investigate the
challenges that are associated with educating the
Indian migrants in the green construction industry.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS
▪ What are the challenges associated with educating the Indian migrants in
green building constructions?
▪ What is the potential solution to those challenges?
▪ Does the management have to invest extra effort in educating the Indian
or Asian migrants than the local labour?
▪ Does the mass use of the Indian migrants in green buildings construction
show that they are more capable than the local labour?

METHODOLOGY
The paper will follow primary quantitative data collection method
to collect data. The questions for the questionnaire to be distributed
will be devised with assistance from the past literary work.

LITERATURE REVIEW
The literature review reveals that the project managers considers
faces these challenges with migrants
▪ Attitude of the Migrant labors
▪ Government policies
▪ Communication and cultural barriers

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Challenges in
educating Indian
Migrants in Green
building construction
Attitude
Co-workers
(Domestic labour) in
supporting the
education of subject.
Job concerns
Wage depletion
Indian Migrants in
learning the skills.
Organisation towards
investing in
temporary workforce
Expenditure on
training and training
material
Effort invested in
educating the Indian
Migrants
Barriers
Communication
Different Cultural and
working pattern
Government Policies
Policies for waging
Policies for domestic
workforce education

RESEARCH DESIGN
 Interpretivism philosophy is adopted as research philosophy.
 Research approach is deductive.
 The design of the paper is meta-analysis.
 Sampling of the collected data was done through likelihood
sampling method.

DATA COLLECTION
Secondary data was collected for the research.
The data collection mode was selected because
• It is time & cost efficient.
• Can be readily collected.

DATA ANALYSIS
 The data collected from secondary source.
 Summarised to identify the factors & challenges.
 The evaluation was also done to analyse the effort invested by Project management team in
educating subjects.
 A comparison of the subject & local labours was also done.
 A mitigating strategy was proposed.
 All the above discussed objectives were achieved through thematic analysis & critical
thinking.

IDENTIFIED CHALLENGES
 BARRIERS- Cultural & Communication.
 Attitude of Indians-
o Late coming
o Risky attitude
o Argumentative
o Last minute attitude
o Emotional
o Lousy at work & personal life balance
o Lack of Initiative
o Avoiding Responsibility
 Complexity of green construction- Indian migrants are not very
skilled in green construction.
FINDINGS SUMMARY

EFFORT INVESTED IN EDUCATING
MIGRANTS
The project managers have to invest extra effort in
educating Indian migrants in green construction
because of the following:
 Attitude of the Indian Migrants.
 Complexity of green construction.
FINDINGS SUMMARY (CONT.)

CAPABILITY OF LOCAL
LABOURS?
The Local Labours are not less skilled than
Indian migrants.
The preference enjoyed by Indian Migrants are
because
o Indians are ready to work at low wages.
o They are hard working.
o They are capable of offering flexibility in work & schedule.
FINDINGS SUMMARY (CONT.)

MITIGATING STRATEGY
The mitigating strategy works in steps that had
been discussed as follows:
o Evaluate: Evaluate the work compatibility of the subject.
o Encourage: Encourage them to work.
o Expand: Expand the benefits of green technology to them.
o Explore: Allow them to explore their way of doing things.
o Explain: Explain the protocols & Principles.
o Embark: Start the training & production.
FINDINGS SUMMARY (CONT.)

6E MODEL OF EMPLOYEE EDUCATION
Education
Embark
Evaluate
Explore
Explain
Encourage
Expand

LIMITATION
 Limited resources could be accessed because of lack of money.
 Huge gap in research related to Indian migrants in construction
industry.

CONCLUSION
Indian migrants does offer challenges in
educating them in green construction, however, if
educated properly they can prove to be a vital asset
for the project. Hence, the proposed 6E strategy can
help in mitigating those challenges and offer a more
productive stakeholder as Indian migrants.

FUTURE SCOPE & DIRECTION
 Direction to pursue the subject using primary data
collection method that assist in increasing reliability over
the findings & further enhance trust.
 Scope for evaluating challenges in educating workers in
construction industry.

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