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posted on 20.01.2017, 15:18 by Joseph G. Kappia, Andrew Dainty, Andrew PriceRecruiting and retaining an adequate share of the UK workforce is vital to meeting
the construction industry’s demands and sustaining its current growth. This requires
the attraction of new employees, developing proactive approaches to Human
Resource Development (HRD), and developing retention strategies. Career
development programmes are required which can align the industry’s needs with the
career expectations of the individual. However, despite the importance of such
schemes to the trade and craft occupations, most research devoted to career
development has a professional and managerial focus. A need to redress this
imbalance is compounded by a variety of negative factors such as the scarcity of
skilled people, falling recruitment levels and high employee turnover rates. The
overall aim of the work reported in this paper is to develop a typology of trade and
craft careers, to be used as a framework for supporting specific career development
initiatives. The paper presents the theoretical framework to be used in analysing the
career perspectives of a stratified sample of trade and craft employees. This will
facilitate an examination of career development expectations, reconciled against the
realities of working life and career development opportunity. The relevant literature
is introduced, along with the direction of the future research.
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