The construction industry plays a vital role in overall economic development by providing necessary infrastructure facilities for all the sectors of the economy. It can be regarded as a mechanism of generating the employment opportunities to millions of unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled work forces. It also plays a key role in generating income in both formal and informal sector and earning foreign exchange through the trade in construction material and engineering services. Being a labour intensive industry, the behaviour of the manpower highly reflects on the performance, user friendliness of the construction process and the organization where they engaged in [1]. The construction process involves a large number of stakeholders through various processes and different phases of the work. The output of the construction projects may be buildings, irrigation, drainage and water supplies, civil engineering projects, roads, harbors and air ports, power plants etc.

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