Liem, Christina (2023) A stakeholder approach to develop a women's empowerment framework in the Indonesian construction industry. PhD thesis, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Abstract
This research focuses on empowering professional women in the Indonesian construction industry context by utilizing a stakeholder approach. Adopting a qualitative approach, it employed semi-structured interviews and snowball sampling techniques to gather primary data from 48 female informants in the construction industry and in construction-related study programs in Indonesia. This research contributes theoretically and empirically to the construction management body of knowledge on professional women’s empowerment in the Indonesian construction industry. The novelty of this research findings is the professional women’s empowerment framework for the specific context of the Indonesian construction industry, including its guidelines. The women’s willingness is crucial to empower themselves, improve their personal capabilities, and balance their dual roles as professional women and family caretakers. The second step to empower professional women in the construction industry is the required relational change between professional women and the construction industry; professional women and the higher education institutions; and the relational change between professional women and their parents or husbands. This research found that the professional women are looking for equal employment opportunities based on meritocracy in the construction industry and expect the construction industry and the higher education institutions to collaborate in developing and delivering an industrial-centric curriculum to boost their confidence to engage in the construction industry. Also, this research underlines the importance of support from the husband, which is found to be one of the success factors of female leaders in the Indonesian construction industry. Thirdly, this research highlights the Government is required to ensure equal employment opportunities and eliminate verbal harassment against women in this industry. Finally, this research develops self-evaluation guidelines for professional women to identify the right process to design a women’s empowerment framework. To conclude, this research initiates professional women’s empowerment in the construction industry with a strong recommendation for future researchers to utilise this research to solve global professional shortage issues in the construction industry through professional women’s empowerment.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | Sunindijo, R Y and Wang, C |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Indonesia; education; employment; government; higher education; professional; stakeholder; women |
| Index terms: | higher education institution, Indonesia, higher education, employment, qualitative approach, sampling, women, construction industry, interview, empowerment, success factor, self-evaluation, program, body of knowledge |
| Subjects: | knowledge management, Geography, research methods, data collection methods, evaluation methods, health monitoring assessment and metrics, software systems, management, industry analysis, educational institutions, sociology |
| Topics: | Health and Safety, Geographical Context, Education, Quality Management, Research Practice, Information Management, Digital Applications, Human Resources |
| Descriptive scope: | 5 PCTEA |
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