Factors Affecting Labor
Productivity & their Improvements in
Construction Industries
Engr. Vishwanath Patil
A. Definition:
B. Factors Affecting Job-Site
of the labor. Factors that might be eval-
Productivity in construction is often
Productivity
uated include:
broadly defined as output per labor
Job-site productivity is influenced by
·Quality of Work - If the work has not
hour. Since labor constitutes a large
many factors which can be character-
been executed with desired quality in
part of the construction cost and the
ized either as labor characteristics,
the first time, then it's requires addi-
quantity of labor hours in performing a
project work conditions or as non-
tional rectifications these ultimately
task in construction is more suscepti-
productive activities.
leads to increase the material
ble to the influence of management
consumption, manpower utilization,
than are materials or capital, this
1) Labor Characteristics
project time, etc. & indirectly reflecting
productivity measure is often referred
The labor characteristics such as age,
low productivity. On the Quality point
to as labor productivity.
skill, experience, leadership & motiva-
of view, all the labor's to be provided
tion will directly affect the productivity
training on regular basis.
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