Developing national occupational licensing system for subcontractors and technicians in construction sector

Other Title(s)

تطوير نظام الإجازة المهنية الوطنية لمقاولي الباطن و الفنيين في قطاع البناء

Dissertant

al-Ruzzi, Rashid Yusuf Rashid

Thesis advisor

Ashur, Yusuf Husayn Mahmud

Comitee Members

al-Dayyih, Wail Hamdi
Badawi, Usamah Ibrahim

University

Islamic University

Faculty

Faculty of Commerce

Department

Department of Business Administration

University Country

Palestine (Gaza Strip)

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2015

English Abstract

This research proposes a new independent body for national occupational licensing (OL) system for construction sector and it develops the strategic planning for the national occupational system with the appropriate vision, mission, strategic goals, action plan and logical framework.

This research aims to answer the following questions: 1) Is an occupational licensing system application in Palestine? 2) What are the barriers if any to design, implement and enforce an occupational licensing framework for workers in Palestine? 3) What is the most suitable occupational licensing framework for Palestine? 4) What is the most suitable licensing implementation and enforcement system and approach for the Palestinian OL framework? 5) What are the strategic goals, objectives and the Logical framework for the Palestinian OL system? This methodology of research uses quantitative and qualitative methods which consists of the following steps:1) stockholder analysis 2) focus group discussion with the stockholders to formulate the main survey items.

3) Structured Interview and survey and 4) the development of the strategic goals, objectives and the Logical framework for the Palestinian OL system with the relevant stockholders and participants.

The research findings and conclusions can be summarised as follows.

First, the Palestinian Labour market is unregulated, deformed, suffers from skills availability and low quality of services in addition to the gap between training outcome and labour market requirement.

Second, Occupational Licensing System is a suitable solution and it is applicable for the Palestinian Labour Market.

It will help greatly in improving the skills of the workers, the quality of their work, the youth attraction to TVET training and education.

In addition, it will improve mobility of workers between local, regional and international market.

Third, the main barriers to the Occupational system are: (a) The lack of financial capacity to implement and finance the framework.

(b) The insufficient capacity of governmental bodies to implement the system.

(c) The inadequate TVET system.

And (d) The absence of any legalization involvement/laws in the issue.

Forth, the Occupational Licensing system framework main objective is to improve skills and improve quality of services.

It uses licensing as an enforcement approach.

Main Subjects

Business Administration

No. of Pages

140

Table of Contents

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-723414