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A theoretical and contextual framework for investigating trade and craft careers

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posted on 2017-01-20, 15:18 authored by Joseph G. Kappia, Andrew Dainty, Andrew Price
Recruiting 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.

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

1st Scottish Conference for Postgraduate Researchers of the Build and Natural Environment 1st Scottish Conference for Postgraduate Researchers of the Build and Natural Environment

Pages

. 123 - 134

Citation

KAPPIA, J., DAINTY, A. and PRICE, A., 2003. A theoretical and contextual framework for investigating trade and craft careers. IN: Proceedings of 2003 1st Scottish conference for Postgraduate Researchers of the Built and Natural Environment (PRoBE 2003), Glasgow, Great Britain, 18-19 November 2003, pp.123-134.

Publisher

Conseil International du Bâtiment

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2003

ISBN

9781903661505;1903661501

Language

  • en

Location

Glasgow Caledonian University