Construction Management

Question: Development of thesis on Safety measures in India Vs Australia in construction field. I have the first assessment. Second assessment is all about developing the thesis more accurately and explaining everything about the thesis excluding the references and bibliography. Answer: Introduction Working on this project has been a great experience that could further help me in the academic career. I have gone through different topics that are related to risks associated with construction work. However, the topic of current research is partially different, which provides me an opportunity to gain new knowledge. I hardly knew about health and safety measures at the workplace but the current research helped me to gain a large amount of knowledge in required health and safety measures. In addition, the completion of the research increases my knowledge in research methodology. Moreover, I have developed my knowledge in different areas of research such as data collection, selecting of methodology, hypothesis testing, forming objectives, conceptual framework, and other areas. I have realized construction industry is one of the growing industries, which covers wide operations. While analyzing the existing literature I have understood that technological advancement is one of the significant requirements as most of the operations done in the construction industry are risky or hazardous and require plenty of human efforts. Thus, it is necessary for the organizations in the construction industry should focus on adopting new technology. Technology can do most of the risky operations. Another significant area, which should be considered carefully, is the risk assessment. The collection of data helps me to realize how employee turnover rate is comparatively in the construction industry than any other industry. I have also observed that a number of organizations that provide health and safety measures at the workplace in the construction industry are comparatively low. Thus, it is important to provide health and safety measures to workers of the construction industry. While collecting the secondary, I have observed that multiple types of researches have been conducted on the operations of the construction industry that cover the area such as the impact of risks, factors influencing the development and other factors. However, hardly any research is performed on the importance of health and safety measures at the workplace. Thus, it was necessary to conduct a research on health and safety measures. I have identified that by providing health and safety measures, the organizations in construction industry decrease the rate of employee turnover. The critical discussion made in the literature review indicates that the number of accidents and fatalities are gradually increasing. An increased number of workers every day are leaving the work due to potential risks associated with the construction work and poor health and security measures. The workers of the construction industry in India reported that a large percentage of the employees did not receive pr oper training. In addition, the work practices have hardly been developed. This results in increased number of injuries and fatalities. The research project on the current topic enhanced my knowledge in the different field. I must mention that I have the opportunity to develop my knowledge in construction management, which was entirely different field since I was not aware of the operations done in construction work. The secondary data help me to realize that construction industry should focus on their strategies in relation to the management besides risk management. There have been many cases, where the organizations where the organizations are seen to be implementing the risk management strategies very effectively; however, they fail to take appropriate managerial decisions. This is because the common fact that construction industry is one of the biggest industries, which usually deal with the risky and hazardous project. The authors have suggested different strategies to develop a risk-free work environment. One such strategy is the agile strategy, which is implemented by the most of the large organizations in the construction industry. Most interesting part of the research I should mention that the conduction of the study on the construction industry and its health and safety measures have been a great experience for me. One of the biggest reasons is, I have improved my knowledge about the operations generally done the in the construction industry. Apart from the knowledge of construction work, I have also enhanced my knowledge in research techniques. I mention that I was not aware of the research techniques that are usually implemented to conduct the research perfectly. However, after going through the books of research methodology I have gained an understanding about the research methodology. Thereby, I made the analysis of research techniques to identify the appropriate and suitable techniques. I have observed the selection of research methodology is one of the significant things as the outcome of the research largely depends on the selected research methodology. In such a case, I had to take help from my supervisor. My supervisor guides me to select the research methodology. With his contribution, I have designed the appropriate research techniques for my research. Initially, I was in the dilemma of choosing the data analysis in between primary and secondary. After making several attempts and experimentation, I have selected secondary research analysis. There are some particular reasons behind choosing secondary research analysis. I wanted to conduct the research intensively considering all aspects of construction industry such as work, operation, workers, growth, employee safety and security strategies. Thus, the analysis of those aspects might not have been appropriate for primary analysis. It was necessary to go in detail. Hence, the most interesting part of the researc h was to collect the data for secondary analysis. I have read multiple types books, journals, success stories on magazines, newspapers. I have discovered the aspects associated with constructions that are probably not known to all. There are many people hardly have knowledge about the aspects associated with construction work. I find this interesting as I discovered how the construction industry is managed. I was excited when I received all data for analysis. I have found that many authors have put their argumentative opinions on health and safety measure. The collection of data helps to learn the organizations in Australian construction industry have concerned with health and safety measures for the workers. I observed that leadership is one of the important things to deal with any challenge. Especially, in the construction industry, it is highly required as there is known fact that construction industry mostly experiences an increased rate of employee turnover. Workers are the major resource of an organization; thereby, it is important to retain the workers for the productivity of the organizations as well as for human development. Hence, leadership plays an important role in managing the workplace. I think leadership should also be merged with community development along organizational development. The role of leaders in social work could help people to understand the value of development. As a result, people end up putting more effort on their work. Hence, I realized that leaders need to be careful about the safety and security of the workers. The workers should e provided with required health and safety measures, as it is evident that workers in construction work mostly deal with risky and hazardous operations. The workers may leave the job due to the fact of poor health and safety measures. It is the responsibility of the organizations to implement the health and safety measures to save their workers accidents and fatalities. Thus, I mention that collection of secondary information immensely helped me to develop my own understanding regarding the segments of the construction industry. The collection secondary data also help me to realize construction industry is dynamic in nature, as the operations done in this field do not follow the existing trend for a long time. I think the organizations both small and large in the construction industry should pay more attention to their workers by considering them as the major aspect of the organizations. Besides, the collection of secondary data helps me to realize that the construction industry in India should focus on providing the necessary health and safety measures such personal protective equipment. However, in the data findings, I realized that there health and safety measures that are usually done by the organizations in the construction industry in Australia are implemented by the organizations in India as well. However, I realized that due to some influential factors such as the unstable economy, the unfavorable political environment the organizations in Indian construction industry are not able to implement the health and safety measures properly. Thus, with the help of secondary data, I found the distinctions between the construction industry in India and Australia. Apart from these two countries, there have been other developing countries such as China, UK and Hong Kong. Challenges I faced The successful completion of the project makes me remind the amount of effort I have put in the work. Initially, I felt hopeless regarding the execution of the project as I was lacking the appropriate source of data to work on the thesis. The construction industry is one of the broadest industries and this was lingering in the mind. I was dealing with the anxiety in my mind as I stuck in the middle of the research due to lack of confidence. At the first phase of the research, I was confused with certain things such research techniques, valid sources of data, the appropriate structure of the research. I increased the level of anxiety since I did have poor knowledge in the above-mentioned aspects. However, these aspects are extremely important to conduct as well direct the research towards a particular destination. Another significant challenge was the implementation of secondary research. It is evident that secondary research requires a high level of care and attention at it is usually a wide format. From the secondary source of information, I have realized that authors mainly focus on primary analysis. This is because the fact that the conduction of the search emerges with a comprehensive outcome if a secondary research is intensively conducted. However, in the case of my research, I have gone through the techniques of both primary and secondary research. After dealing with several dilemmas, I concluded that secondary research helps me to gain the desired outcome from the research. I have gathered the information from the secondary source of information but it appears to be difficult at the time of conducting the analysis. There have been multiple types of formats associated with the secondary data analysis. Again, I faced the dilemma of choosing the right format of secondary analysis. There was an anxiety in my mind, which was making me nervous. While delving into the secondary source of information I observed that many studies fail to acquire desired results due to improper selection secondary data analysis. This fact decreased the level of my confidence. On the contrary, at the time of discussing the results, I faced difficulties in linking the results with the prepared objectives of the research. In addition, while concluding the thesis, I had to represent the objectives along with the secondary information; there I was required to make a correlation among the data, objectives and findings. Since health and safety measures at the workplace are one of the important aspects, I have hesitation in providing the recommendation aligning with the data findings. Thus, I could not rely on the selected solutions that I was supposed to provide at the end of the thesis. However, after making sev eral attempt I ended up suggesting the solutions that I would elaborate in the next phase of the analysis How do I overcome the challenges? As I discussed above I faced multiple challenges at each phase of the thesis; thus, to deal with those challenges I have also applied certain strategies. In the introductory chapter of the research, I paid more the attention in preparing the rationale of the research, since I knew proper rationale could help me to prepare the aim and objectives of the research. The objective is one of the important aspects of the thesis, which required to be carefully managed. Thereafter, I prepared the research questions aligning with the hypothesis of the research. After preparing these aspects, I found it easy to form the dissertation structure, which indicates me how the research is going toward the desired direction. I also identified the research problems as the identification of the issues help to carry forward the research to the next stage, which was the review of the literature. While preparing the literature review I found different argumentative statements put forward by the authors in th e previous research. This helps me to deal with the research problems found the in the introductory stage of the thesis. I made the comparison in between the issues of my current research and the data findings provide in the previous studies regarding the health and safety measures in health and safety measures at the workplace in the construction industry. Thus, I have gone through multiple types of journals in relation to health and safety measures applied in the construction industry. I must mention that literature review plays a significant role in developing the role in conducting the secondary data analysis. I found out certain gaps in the previous studies that help me to conduct my current study. Moreover, by considering the gaps in the previous researches, I am able to meet the requirement of current thesis. However, I faced some difficulties in preparing the secondary research. My supervisor resolves the difficulties. My supervisor helped me to select the right format of secondary data analysis. Thus, I gain the meet all requirements of the research. The collected the journals and researched the validity of those data. Likewise, I emphasized on certain aspects of those journal regarding health and safety in construction work. Some significant aspects are such as compliance with the regulations, economical factor, and favorable environment that have the major influence in construction projects. The thematic analysis in the literature review helps me to conduc t the research more effectively with requirements. I believe that by performing a thematic analysis it is easy to point certain necessary aspect of the thesis rather conducting a secondary study. I believe while implementing a descriptive study one may not be able to cover all the areas of the research, as the descriptive research techniques are broad in nature and time-consuming. Another challenge was the selection of research methodology that gave several headaches, as the research methodology should always be proper and appropriate. The selection of research methodology helps to predict the outcome. However, I resolved the problem by going through each of the types involved in the techniques. I must mention the model of research onion gave me an idea regarding how I proceed with the techniques. With the help of research onion model, I selected the research philosophy, which suits the secondary research philosophy. Likewise, I went ahead with research approach, design and data collection. As I was sure about the sure about the secondary data analysis in the initial stage of the research, the selection of data collection did not give me much of the troubles. However, the ethical consideration was also a major concern in the research methodology. I had to go through certain n ethical issues such as confidentiality of data, organizations, and people involved in the research process. I had to take the permission from the management of the organization. However, it was not easy to convince the heads of the organizations as no organization prefers to be disclosed in public. Nevertheless, the approval form signed my professor of my university made them understand. In addition, I ensured that the data is only collected for the academic purpose. Thereafter, I also had to deal with the issues of data analysis, as it is evident that secondary analysis is an in-depth process. The secondary analysis requires time; thus, I had to hold my patience at the time of presenting the data in a comprehensive manner. I failed a number of times while presenting the data. After several attempts, I put the data with table and graphs. The representation of the dat a helps me to point out in certain areas of research that are further analyzed in the discussion. Based on the discussion made in the fourth stage I prepared the solutions against the issues found regarding health and safety measures at the workplace in the construction industry. However, I must mention there have been certain limitations that I had to consider while conducting the study. One of the major limitations I faced is the comparative study in between Australia and India. I could have conducted the research considering the scenario of other countries such as UK and China. Another limitation I dealt with was the selection of research data analysis. I had to choose either secondary data analysis or primary data analysis. However, I conduct the research including both primary as well as secondary data analysis; the outcome of the research would have been more appropriate and effective. Application of knowledge Again, I say the completion of the study gave a large amount of satisfaction since I enhanced my knowledge in both academic and management study. The knowledge gained from the completion of the research, I could apply in my course. There are certain aspects developed in the research such as time management could help me to prepare the study. I had poor knowledge in time management but I had to complete this research within a given deadline. However, this surely helps me to take further preparation to complete my course. In addition to this, research techniques used in the study could help me to prepare the further project of my study. I also developed my knowledge in decision-making skills. I had poor knowledge in taking the right decision for my life, my career. In the middle of this study, I was stuck with the data analysis. I could not select the research methodology. 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