© January 2022| IJIRT | Volume 8 Issue 8 | ISSN: 2349-6002
IJIRT 153737 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN TECHNOLOGY 308
Performance of Factors Influencing on Labour
Productivity for Construction Projects– A Review
Ms. Varsha R. Borole
1
, Dr. Ghansaham Sarode
2
1
PG Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Dr . D .Y. Patil Institute of Technology, Pimpri, Pune,
India 411018
2
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Technology, Pimpri,
Pune, India 411018
Abstract - In the construction industry, labour
productivity is highly crucial. Productivity is important
in the construction firm since the only valuable resource
is labour power and the industry is primarily dependent
on the work performance of human capital. Because the
construction business is labor-intensive, this study
focuses on labour productivity in the construction sector
and identifies factors influencing labour productivity at
building construction projects. The study's goal is to
identify the key elements causing changes in labour
productivity in building projects of high-rise building
assessing the impact of the Welfare, Safety, and Output
groups on labour productivity variations and making
recommendations to reduce labour productivity
fluctuations. The above-mentioned objectives are
attained by examination of sets of questionnaires based
on performance, health, and worker safety.
Index Terms - Labour, Construction, Productivity.
INTRODUCTION
The construction sector is concerned with challenges
related to optimum productivity and worker
management. Inadequate labor jobs management leads
to low productivity. Effective productivity can be
enhanced by proper labor protection. In today’s
intensely cutthroat construction market, construction
efficiency has become such a buzz word and one of the
most frequently researched area. As we know in
overall project’s cost worker cost almost consists 30 to
50 %. There are a lot of elements that have a direct
impact on labour productivity; therefore, it is critical
for any business to research and understand these
aspects, as well as take necessary action to improve
productivity. Better productivity and labour
performance can be obtained if project labour
management includes education and training skills, the
system, personal health, motivation level, the type of
techniques, machineries, required equipment In India
many factors are affecting on construction industry but
one of the most important is low productivity which
can affect the profitability of construction firms.
Labour productivity is one of the greatest remarkable
aspects which disturb the physical growth of any
building or commercial construction projects.
A. WHAT IS LABOR PRODUCTITVITY?
Productivity may be described in a variety of ways like
out to input ratio. In the construction industry,
productivity is commonly understood to refer to labour
productivity, or the number of units of work put or
produced per man-hour. Manhours every unit (unit
rate), the reciprocal of labour productivity, is also
often used. Productivity is defined as the ratio of
output to all or portion of the resources needed to
generate that output. The output might be either
heterogeneous in nature. Labour, capital, energy, raw
materials, and so on are examples of resources.
Labour Productivity= Output/Work Hour
Most of the workers are being less productive because
of their bad habits or attitudes towards their work such
as not coming on working time and going back early
to the home, this is happening because lack of
supervision. Labors are one of the most important
tools of any construction project in general and project
organizations in particular as the quality of output of
the organization depends largely on the caliber of the
labor working there in. With both positive and
negative labor contributions, the quality of an
organization's output can provide a major competitive
advantage over their competitors. In today's
competitive environment, management will need to
make some strategic decisions to improve the
performance of its human assets in order to achieve