Purpose:
The purpose of this survey is to define current recruitment and retention practices for skilled labor currently employed throughout the industry and to access your views of the skilled labor shortage. The responses you provide will aid the researches in determining effective industry practices. The National Construction Image Committee, whose mission is to create an inspired national effort that will significantly accelerate the improvement of both the perception and the reality of our construction industry is sponsoring this research project.
Confidentiality Disclosure:
The Federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Arizona law, and university policy protect survey participant information. The Del E. Webb School or Construction will not sell or distribute information collected by this survey. Information collected will be used solely for research purposes. Additionally, contact information is separated from an results generated for analysis and will only be used to forward the research findings should you so desire.
Skilled Labor Shortage:
This section is designed to determine your views on the state of today's skilled labor shortage.
1.Do you think there is a shortage of skilled workers in the construction industry?
Yes No
2.Do you think there is a shortage of people willing to work in construction, regardless of their skill level?
Yes No
3.Do you think there is a lack of skills, but not people willing to work in the construction industry?
Yes No
4.On a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the most skilled, rank the average skill level of new hires in your company.
Recruitment of Skilled Labor:
These questions will help identify methods used to attract people either into the industry or to a specific company and to determine which trades are difficult to attract.
5.Where is the best place to find/recruit skilled craft persons? (Please numerically rank your answers from 1-7, 1 being the best location and 7 being the least desirable.)
6.Would you be more likely to hire a craft worker referred to you rather than a random person seeking employment within in your company?
Yes No
7.Would you be more likely to hire somebody you knew, or knew of, thgat possessed a lower skill level, than someone you did not know, that possessed a higher skill level?
Yes No
8.On a scale of 1-5, 5 being the most willing, how would you rate your willingness to train a new hire?
9.Which program do you think proveds the best trades-related training?
(Please numerically rank from 1-6, with 1 being the best for you.)
10.How long (in years) is the average length of employment for new hires?
11.Please numerically rank from 1-5 the folowwing lis of craft worker categories based upon the difficulty of recruitment. (Pick the five that you feel are the most difficult to recruit, with 1 being the most difficult) Please choose N/A for the 8 you did not rank.
Employer Demographics:
The following questions are designed to obtain a brief company background, which will reamin totally anonymous.
12.What is the major type of work your company completes?
13.What was your dollar volume of work completed last year?
14.In which state do you perform most of your work?
15.Work Radius: How far from your office will your company, or division, work (in miles)?
Retention of Skilled Labor
These questions probe the importance of different areas, such as safety, compensation, travel and benefits, in the retention of skilled craft workers.
16.Which area is most important when it comes to retaining craft workers? (Pick the five you feel are important with 1 being the most important and rank them numerically as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. There will be two marked N/A)
17.What would cause craft workers to willingly quit your company? (Please numerically rant from 1-7, 1 being the greatest possible reason and 7 being the most unlikely reason)
1
Greatest
Reason |
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7
Most Unlikely
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