dc.contributor.advisor | Escamilla, Edelmiro | |
dc.creator | Agrawal, Aditya Vijaykumar | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-23T19:29:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-05-01T12:36:07Z | |
dc.date.created | 2019-05 | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-04-16 | |
dc.date.submitted | May 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/187946 | |
dc.description.abstract | Since 1968 Americans have recognized September 15 to October 15 as Hispanic
Heritage Month. Each year, we celebrate the history and culture of Hispanic and Latino
Americans and their contributions to society. In 2014, Hispanics and Latinos accounted
for 16.1 percent of the 146.3 million employed people in the United States. The
Construction industry is the dominant employer of Hispanics. 90.5% of Construction
managers are White, making that the most common race or ethnicity in the occupation,
while about 29.8% of the workforce is made of Hispanic people. This creates a cultural
and lingual gap among the managers and workers. One of the most common reasons for
failure at a job site is miscommunication. This study focuses on investigating the
perception of Hispanic Highschool students towards construction managers and creating
awareness about what a construction manager does. This study follows a multidimensional
surveying method with targeted groups of Hispanic Highschool students and parents.
After analysis of the survey and sketches received from the participants, the study
concludes that there is a significant misconception in the Hispanic community about what
a construction manager profession looks like, where the construction manager is located
and what does the construction manager does. The study also concluded that there is need
to create awareness among students about the profession, to increase the likelihood of
Hispanic students choosing construction management as their profession, thus decreasing
the gap in the industry. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | students | en |
dc.subject | perception | en |
dc.subject | Hispanics | en |
dc.subject | construction | en |
dc.subject | managers | en |
dc.title | Investigating the Perceptions of Hispanic High School Students Towards Construction Managers | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.department | College of Architecture | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | Facility management | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
thesis.degree.name | Master of Science | en |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Lewis, Phil | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Booth, Geoffrey | |
dc.type.material | text | en |
dc.date.updated | 2020-04-23T19:29:57Z | |
local.embargo.terms | 2021-05-01 | |
local.etdauthor.orcid | 0000-0002-4571-0271 | |