- Title
- A Resilience Toolkit for Construction Management Graduates
- Creator
- Ershadi, Mahmoud; Davis, Peter; Newaz, Mohammad Tanvi; Jefferies, Marcus
- Relation
- 44th Australasian Universities Building Education Association Conference (AUBEA 2021): Construction Education: Live The Future. Proceedings of the 44th AUBEA Conference: Construction Education - Live the Future (Geelong, Vic 27-29 October, 2021) p. 163-172
- Publisher
- Deakin University
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- The complex nature of contemporary construction work is associated with numerous stressors that not only affect the well-being of the workforce but also their productivity. Employers’ expectations and work demands may exceed the capacity of fresh graduates who aim to progress their career upon graduation. When this reality is coupled with the lack of support and adverse conditions in the workplace, young individuals feel under pressure and unable to cope. Work-related stress has long been discussed in academic literature and resilience as an essential capacity is introduced as a solution. The future construction industry demands resilient graduates being equipped with the requisite skills to adapt themselves to the ever increasing complexities. Researchers have attempted to conceptualize this concept in their field of interest. However, further research is still needed to outline its key determinants and introduce relevant strategies to promote them in the construction sector. In this study, factors affecting or being affected by resilience are discussed in this context based on the literature. Besides, suitable instruments for measuring resilience are introduced and academic interventions for building resilience are discussed based on the literature. Thus, the resilience toolkit in this study (1) explains the framework of antecedents, predictors, and consequences of resilience, (2) introduces resilience measures, and (3) argues academic interventions for improving the resilience of construction management graduates. This toolkit provides universities with insights on how to measure and plan for promoting the resilience of graduates during a construction management program. The findings add to the literature on the topic and open up a new outlook to the study of resilience in the construction management discipline.
- Subject
- resilience; construction education; construction management graduates; toolkits
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1436653
- Identifier
- uon:40093
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780646850085
- Language
- eng
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