Kajian terhadap kerja pengubahsuaian sebagai subsektor informal dalam industri binaan di Malaysia: satu kajian kes di Pulau Pinang

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2003-04
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Boon Ching, Ng
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This research was conducted to study the characteristics of renovation in the actual construction industry. This field is an infonnal sector that remains untapped by any researcher. Through thorough interviews with many home owners and renovation contractors, it was discovered that this informal sector can bring forth a generous income to the contractors as well as help tlte home owners to be exempted from certain government taxes. Through the results of analysis, it was discovered that there are many attractive factors that draw the contractors to participate in this informal sector. They are the money factor in which the contractors receive high income, the economic factor whereby the contractors can branch out when their work in the formal sector reached a stumbling point and the life factor in which the contractor needs to find a new source of income. The money factor is the most attractive. On the other hand, it was discovered that the procedures to obtain the renovation contract were informal procedures. The employment of a contractor was either through the client's connection with the contractor or introduced by a neighbour or friend. Additionally, the measuring technique which is used by contractors are informal methods whereby the contractors measure quantity based on experience. Even though this research uses a smal! sample, however it generates valuable information for further research.
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Kerja pengubahsuaian , Subsektor informal dalam industri binaan di Malaysia , Kajian kes di Pulau Pinang
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