scholarly journals Labor productivity measurement in Japanese agriculture, 1956–1990

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Kuroda
ASTONJADRO ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 260
Author(s):  
Paikun Paikun ◽  
Cici Fatimah ◽  
Nadhya Susilo Nugroho ◽  
Dody Kusmana

<p>Management on a construction project is something that cannot be ignored, because without construction management a project will be difficult to run according to expectations in the form of cost, time, quality and the success or failure of a construction project depends on the effectiveness of resource management. One way that can be done to achieve project objectives is to increase work productivity. This study aims to determine the productivity of labor in the installation of lightweight brick walls based on facts in housing projects. Labor productivity by analyzing the LUR value and productivity rating then becomes the regression analysis data to produce the model. The data search was carried out by direct observation to the field and conducting unstructured interviews with workers in the field. The resource persons are workers as artisans and workers who are experts in the work of installing light brick walls. This productivity measurement uses the productivity rating method, where worker activities are classified into 3 things, namely Essential contributory work, Effective work, and not useful. The results of the analysis show that the productivity of light brick wall installation workers based on the fact has higher productivity than the SNI labor coefficient. To calculate the labor productivity of installing lightweight brick walls, then the model from the results of this study can be used. The results of the evaluation of the model to predict labor productivity for installing lightweight brick walls have an average accuracy of 99.34%, so the model can be declared accurate.</p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Hector Hernández ◽  
Gerald Oliveres

Abstract In the construction sector labor-productivity growth just 1% on average the last two decades, which is very low compared to the 2,8% for the global economy or the 3,6% for the manufacturing sector. This shows that every year significant amounts of money and resources, both human and material, are lost due to inefficient processes in our industry. This issue gets worse due to the majority of construction companies do not have formal measuring systems a site level, what is necessary for the determination of productivity indicators. So the lack of measurement is the main problem involved in productivity improvement. In this scenario, a site labor-productivity case study is analyzed with the purpose of showing some productivity data and disclose some issues that occur when an incipient labor-productivity measurement processing based on Six-Sigma tools is implemented. The research is based on the cycle of beam and slab concreting work at three levels of a residential building superstructure. The measurements were performed for approximately four weeks, where 44 pours of pumped concrete were measured. The tools of the six-sigma approach provided a statistical structure that allowed to evaluate the concreting crew productivity in the case study. The results showed a work pace of 662.6 m2 of concrete floor per week on average and, an averaged labor-productivity of 1.47 m3/mh with changes that responded to the natural process variability. Moreover, the process capability showed that concreting crew productivity variation did not meet the specification established for a typical 3s level, evidencing that a requirement above of 3s level is something difficult to fulfill in the construction sector since craft processes are in essence difficult to repeat with accuracy in a labor-intensive context Resumen En el sector de la construcción, la productividad laboral creció sólo un 1% en promedio en las últimas dos décadas, lo que es muy bajo en comparación con el 2,8% de la economía mundial o el 3,6% del sector manufacturero. Esto demuestra que cada año se pierden importantes cantidades de dinero y recursos, tanto humanos como materiales, debido a procesos ineficientes en nuestra industria. Este problema se agrava debido a que la mayoría de las empresas constructoras no cuentan con sistemas formales de medición a nivel de obra, lo que es necesario para la determinación de los indicadores de productividad. Por lo tanto, la falta de medición es el principal problema implicado en la mejora de la productividad. En este escenario, un caso de estudio de productividad laboral en obra es analizado con el propósito de mostrar algunos datos de productividad y, revelar algunos problemas que ocurren cuando se implementa un proceso de medición de productividad laboral incipiente basado en herramientas Six-Sigma. La investigación se centró en el ciclo de hormigonado de vigas y losas en tres niveles de la superestructura de un edificio residencial. Las mediciones se realizaron durante aproximadamente cuatro semanas, donde se midieron 44 vertidos de hormigón bombeado. Las herramientas del enfoque six-sigma proporcionaron una estructura estadística que permitió evaluar la productividad del equipo de hormigonado en el caso de estudio. Los resultados mostraron un ritmo de trabajo de 662,6 m2 de forjados de hormigón por semana en promedio y, una productividad laboral promedio de 1,47 m3/HH con cambios que respondieron a la variabilidad natural del proceso. Además, la capacidad del proceso mostró que la variación de la productividad del equipo de hormigonado no cumplía con la especificación establecida para un nivel típico de 3s, evidenciando que un requerimiento superior a 3s es algo difícil de cumplir en el sector de la construcción ya que los procesos artesanales son, en esencia, difíciles de repetir con precisión en contextos de uso de mano de obra intensivo.


2017 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 121-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junbok Lee ◽  
Young-Jin Park ◽  
Chang-Hoon Choi ◽  
Choong-Hee Han

Author(s):  
Ludmila Nicolaevna Bujanova ◽  
Martin Grantovich Grigorjan

The article focuses on the problem of branch aspects of labor productivity management. The analysis of an upward trend in labor productivity in transport sector in general and on the water transport in particular has been carried out. The results show incomplete use of labor productivity potential, as well as rather low efficiency of labor management in the Russian Federation. In terms of generalization of the data which found in scientific and methodical literature, the methodical approaches to labor productivity management in transport sector are structured, the essence of process, functional, and organizational approaches is defined, and features of their use are described. Realization of the revealed approaches allows managers to define priorities of separate tasks of labor productivity management within the organizations of the water transport. Development of process of labor productivity management in the transport sector is linked to a problem of information and methodological support adequacy. The content of the information methodological support used for assessment and forecasting labor productivity parameters of the organizations of the water transport is disclosed. There has been revealed incompleteness of such information methodological support, in particular, the fact that the approved forms of reporting contain few components for labor productivity evaluation. A set of target labor productivity indicators on transport mentioned by the state program documents is given. The analysis of techniques of labor productivity measurement on transport in general and on the water transport in particular is made, main problems arising while using the existing techniques are defined during the analysis. Recommendations on improvement of the quality of the information methodological support necessary for effective decision-making in the field of labor productivity on the water transport are offered.


2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Roth ◽  
Klaus Moser

Zusammenfassung. Die Studie berichtet über den Einsatz von ProMES (Productivity Measurement and Enhancement System) in einer Abteilung eines internationalen Marktforschungsunternehmens, die wissensintensive Dienstleistungen zu erbringen hat. In der ersten Feedbackphase der zweieinhalbjährigen Studie, die extern moderiert wurde, konnte ein starker positiver Leistungseffekt von d = 1.7 gemessen werden. Zusätzlich wurden die Produktivitätsdaten nach Rückzug des Moderators untersucht. Während der intern gesteuerten Feedbackphase von acht Monaten steigerte sich die Produktivität erneut um d = 2.8. Zudem wurde die Veränderung des Teamklimas untersucht. Während sich aufgabenbezogene Aspekte des Teamklimas positiv entwickelten, bewegten sich personenbezogene Aspekte nicht über ein mittleres Niveau hinaus.


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