The Performance of Multinational Foreign Labours at Construction Project in Klang Valley, Malaysia

Malaysia is experiencing a huge influx of foreigners worldwide, especially of low-skilled workers. Malaysia has been suffering labour shortages in many key sectors of the country such as construction, plantation, industrial and service. Foreign labour is another country's worker who comes to work in Malaysia for a period that is also known as economic labour. This study was conducted to study the performance of multinational foreign labours on a construction project in Klang Valley. This research focuses more in identifying the most significant factors and effects on the performances of multinational foreign labours at the construction project. Besides that, this research will determine the strategy to improve the project performances of multinational foreign labours at the construction project. This study utilised a survey instrument by using a questionnaire and observations conducted on 80 respondents at construction companies. Data was collected and analysed by using SPSS version 22 and Microsoft Excel. Descriptive statistics such as mean, percentage and standard deviation were used to analyse the data. The research findings show that there are positive and negative factors and effects of the achievement of a diversity of multinational foreign Labours in construction projects. Besides that, the strategies also were identified to improve the performance work involving the multinational foreign labours at construction projects in Klang Valley.