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Training, motivation, and performance: The case of human resource management in construction projects in Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

An enterprise’s productivity is closely correlated with its people and strategies; therefore, a forceful human resource management system is the most valuable asset of the current century construction companies.

Purpose/design/methodology/approach

Based on a combination of literature review and questionnaire surveys, this paper explores the execution of construction workers training and motivation methods in HRM practices by the survey respondents’ companies and the effects on the companies’ performances. The research was conducted by sending 120 sets of questionnaires to the nominated companies and firms in Mashhad, Iran. A quantitative research approach was adopted requiring the development and dissemination of a questionnaire survey. The analysis method in this research is mainly descriptive and the type of investigation is co-relational study.

Findings

The research exposes some barriers in the training and motivation of the construction workers and provides solutions for the government and companies in Iran. Also, it reveals the effects of unskilled labour on the quality of construction projects in Mashhad.

Research limitations/implications

Future research should be under taken to address how companies and governments adapt to and shape the environmental and organizational settings in such a way that the context optimally stimulates workers motivation and participation in training courses and effects on increasing the quality of construction.

Keywords Human resource management; Construction; Performance; Earthquake; Mashhad; Iran

1. Introduction

Iran, being located in the active Alpine–Himalayan seismic belt, as one of the most active tectonic regions of the world, is an earthquake prone country that has experienced more than 130 strong earthquakes with a magnitude of seven or more in past centuries. Just in the last century, around 25 huge earthquakes have killed more than 200,000, destroyed many towns and thousands of villages, and caused extensive economic damage [1] and [2]. According to Table 1, earthquakes in Iran have shown the seismicity of Iran as well as its vulnerability to earthquakes in the last few decades [3]. In most of these earthquakes, generally the malfunction of structures, which for the most part were inconsistent with the level of earthquake hazard, caused human and economic losses [1] and [2].

Table 1. A brief history of huge earthquakes of Iran from 1957

No. Date Magnitude (Richter scale) Location No. of dead

1 07/02/1957 7.4 Northern of Iran 2000

2 12/13/1957 7.3 Hamadan and Kermanshah 2000

3 09/01/1962 6.9 Buin–Zahra, Qazvin 12,225