ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION FIRMS AND PROBABLE SOLUTIONS FOR THE REMEDY OF THE ISSUES: TOWARDS SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION

Over the last century until now, human resource management is practiced as a discipline in the management of people in an organization, which evolved and developed into different areas. In various business activities, human resources are considered a valuable asset. The organization cannot operate effectively if there is a scarcity or inefficiency of human resources. Being successful of any organization depends upon the effective use of human resources. Human resource is one of the main contribution forces for all kind of organization in India. Because of this, management of human resource, i.e. Human Resource Management (HRM) should have more important effect in India. Also, in the construction sector there is a lot of variables in human resources and the human resources cannot be attended to the industry in permanent form. Therefore, it is the need of the hour to study and understand the Human Resource Management (HRM) in the construction industry. Through the study of literatures it has been found that there is a lack of fine grained qualitative and quantitative analysis in this filed. Due to this lack of qualitative and quantitative research, there is no good-developed framework for factors affecting HRM in the construction industry. Thus this paper aims to analyses the factors affecting the human resource management in construction sector. For analysis 75 factors were considered and it is divided in 14 Main Criteria as: (a) Job Analysis and HR Planning, (b) Recruitment and Selection, (c) Education and Training, (d) Performance Appraisal, Motivation and Retaining, (e) Compensation and Rewards, (f) Employment Relations, (g) Health and Safety, (h) Other External Factors. Data will be collected by personal interviews targeting Engineers, Project Managers, HR Managers and Contractors through questionnaires. All factors affecting the HRM have been analyzed and the main problems of human resource management in the construction of a Analysis of Factors Affecting Human Resource Management of Construction Firms and Probable Solutions for the Remedy of the Issues: Towards Successful Completion http://www.iaeme.com/IJARET/index.asp 20 editor@iaeme.com sustainable project have been identified. The main methods for improvement have also been discovered and the solutions are listed as recommendations in this paper.