ABSTRACT
This chapter presents empirical findings of construction professionals' perceptions of the drivers of construction job insecurity in the South African construction industry with the aim of identifying the contributing factors and means to minimise the menace of job insecurity of construction workers. It describes construction workers' job insecurity (JI) is defined as the perceived powerlessness to maintain desired continuity in a threatened job situation, as posited by Greenhalgh and Rosenblatt. Primarily, the principal objective of the survey, which forms part of the initial survey conducted as part of a larger Master's study, was to investigate the drivers of construction workers' job insecurity in the South African construction industry, as well as ways to minimise this. The current research findings are resonant with those of other scholarly works where it was found that the development of new skills, knowledge and training courses, for instance, are the most effective ways of minimising job insecurity.
