INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY

NAGPUR

RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Business Research Method
Batch: 2014-16
Group No: 12
Section: E

COURSE FACILATOR:
Prof. R.K Jena

Group Members:
Varun Tandon (2014318)
Veer Berea (2014319)
Vedant Madhav (2014320)
Vikas Jain (2014321)

A written research proposal

Construction Business and Labour Market are very closely interlinked in India yet this
sector is much unorganized. Our Inductive Research is totally bent towards organizing
this sector in India.
Title: Organizing the Construction Business and Labour Market in India.
Background: Construction industry is the second largest industry in India. It is quiet
lucrative industry with economic growth around 7% CAGR. It is a monopolistic
competition economy. It includes both real-estate and infrastructure sectors. Man-power
is one of the reasons that cause bottlenecks in the construction industry.
At times there are market imperfections that could be inherent in an industry. It is this
juncture where in government intervention is required not in form of control but in form
of effective monitoring and aid to remove information asymmetries in (construction)
labor markets. This could be done by effective policy making and development of proper
institutions.
Several Labour Lobbies exist in the Morning Hours in every city in case of Daily Wage
Labors. There are instances when it does happen that the entire daily wage labors are not
employed which results in relocation of labors to different states. Relocation of labors to
other states results in excess of daily wage labors population increase.
Research Objectives:
1. To examine the assumptions behind the management technique of nationalization
of the labor market.
2. To establish the characteristics of the Government Intervening Body.
3. To identify the opinions of the daily wage labors regarding their pre conceived
increased employability and their motivation towards getting cross trained by the
State Government.
4. To draw conclusions about the applicability of government intervention in the
labor market.
Method:
1. Conduct a review of the literatures on daily wage labor cross training in Construction
Industry Development Council (CIDC) Website.
2. Carry out primary research on the secondary data that would be used and some
important qualitative facts would be collected from institutes and organizations
websites such as Industrial Training Institute and National Skill Development
Corporation.
Time Scale:
Date
30th Jan 2015
2nd Feb 2015
9th Feb 2014
23rd Feb 2014

Activities
review of literature
draft literature review
review research methods literature and agree research strategy
access to the organizations for collection of primary data using
questionnaire

2nd Mar 2014

9th Mar 2014
16th Mar 2014

final collection of questionnaires and analysis of data

completion of first draft of project report
final writing of project report

Resources:
We will access the data from NSDC, ITI and CIDC website. Additionally, KYC details
and Accenture Consulting research paper from CIDC for reference.
References:

1) William G. Zikmund, Barry J. Babin, Jon C. Carr, Atanu Adhikari, Mitch Griffin
(2014) Business Research Methods 8e A South Asian Perspective by CENGAGE
Learning.

2) http://nsdcindia.org/
3) http://www.cidc.in/new/
4) ITI Website.