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lity includes managing and supervising a group of construction workers. These mandors, many of whom were also relatives or having closed tie with the workers, were responsible to bringing the workers from the village to the construction sites in the cities. Within this arrangement workers did not have direct or formal contract with the construction pany. Instead, mandors signed contract on behalf of his fellow workers, either on the forms of lump sum or unit price contract. Therefore, the method of works and productivity would depend on a type of agreement between mandors and the construction panies. A slightly different situation found in the construction area outside the island of Java. Due to inadequate supply of local workers, skilled and experienced workers from Java Island were often hired for work in projects outside Java Island. In recent years, where most of rice fields are depleting due to conversion into other land use, the number of farmers who chose to return to farming was reduced considerably. Worse yet, due to their lack of education and skill, most of the construction workers remained as free workers, who worked from one project to another as hard worker. . Mandor Position in Indonesian Construction Industry In Indonesian construction industry anizational structure, mandor is positioned as foreman responsible for a group of workers. Traditional emergence of mandors makes them informal leaders, with a very strong social and emotional bind with their fellow workers, which in turn play important role in reshaping their workers attitude toward work. Despite such importance, mandors are still considered lack of high awareness to enhance their technical capabilities in the field. This is presumably related to the level of basic education that the majority of mandors tend to be still low. Yet, in today’s construction indust