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  title info:
    title: Exploring Where the Drywall Construction Workforce Comes From
  name:
    name part: Soto, José Alberto
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Bigelow, Ben
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The labor shortage in construction is an unsolved, continued, and increasing problem in the United States and several other countries. The Associated General Contractor's national workforce survey results show that 83% of firms were having a hard time filling some craft worker positions. One of the most critical positions identified in this survey were drywall installers. The main objectives of this research are threefold: 1) examine the geographic origin of the drywall construction workforce, 2) determine if these locations have common characteristics, and 3) explore the background of the drywall construction workforce. This study was completed through a researcher-designed questionnaire which was administered to drywall craft workers in three ways: a one-on-one face-to-face interview, a researcher-guided group interview, and a self-administered questionnaire. More than 76% of the workforce comes from urbanized areas where the major economic activity performed by the employed within that location is wholesale and retail trade. Factors that encourage workers to work in the drywall trade are obtaining relatively higher salary and the satisfaction of performing the work. The findings of this study provide construction professionals with necessary information to identify where promoting construction careers would be most effective overall to improve worker recruitment and retention strategies. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155636
  note: by Jose Alberto Soto.
  note: "Major Subject: Construction Management"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Master of Science Texas A & M University 2015 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155636
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major Construction Management
  subject:
    topic: Labor Shortage
  subject:
    topic: Drywall trade
  subject:
    topic: Construction workforce
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155636
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 161025
    record change date: 20170926150113.0
    record identifier: in00003735700
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng