Analysis of Observed Skill Affinity Patterns and Motivation for Multiskilling among Craft Workers in the U.S. Industrial Construction Sector

摘要: Previous research has shown that multiskilling strategies can increase productivity, quality, and continuity of work also help mitigate craft shortages through better utilization the existing workforce. Using extensive certification skills data, writers apply correlation cluster analyses to identify actual patterns among workers using two separate data sources. The results analysis indicate current aggregate into four groups: civil, mechanical, electrical, general support. It is observed acquiring mutually supporting skill set pairs significantly drives in practice, thus diminishing relative impact duration on project driving despite its importance previous literature. Still, comparing obtained from affinity with proposed by studies generally reinforces ...