scholarly journals Effect of Covid-19 Pandemic in Construction Labor Productivity: A Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emer Tucay Quezon
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Related Factor ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Schedule Compression ◽  
Significant Factors

This research aims to identify and analyze the various factors affecting construction labor productivity covering the period from December 9, 2020 - January 31, 2021, a year after it was declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Due to the pandemic effect, the local government units in four selected study areas imposed intermittent Enhance Community Quarantine on all places to control the Coronavirus spread in compliance with the health department protocol. Fifty-five questionnaires returned out of 63 distributed are tabulated according to each group-related factor. The correlation analysis resulted in the highest coefficient value of 0.89 between the CTDEO and contractor groups. Meaning, most respondents have the same perception of the factors affecting construction's low labor productivity. Besides, results depicted that the absence of health workers on the construction site ranked 1st in the health & safety provision factor group with an RII of 0.97, followed by no safety engineers on the construction project sites with an RII of 0.93. From all the seven groups of factors, the health and safety group-related factors ranked 1st with an RII of 0.81, next, the schedule compression group with an RII of 0.78. Hypothesis testing asserted that working six days per week was one of the significant factors affecting labor productivity on the contractor's side, suggested by more than 50% of the respondents. The workforce group-related factors with an RII of 0.77 demonstrated a slight difference with the schedule compression group-related factors. Thus, the Covid-19 pandemic has a significant effect on the essential factors affecting construction's low labor productivity.

scholarly journals Analysis of influential factors affecting workers’ productivity on highway construction projects during Covid-19 pandemic in Cagayan Valley Region, Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 074-089
Author(s):  
Emer Tucay Quezon ◽  
Arthur G. Ibanez
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Productivity Loss ◽  
Highway Construction ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Schedule Compression ◽  
Project Site

In highway construction projects, labor-oriented work is an integral part of the management process, requiring analysis of factors affecting labor productivity during Covid-19 pandemic. This research identified 53 influential factors affecting construction labor productivity at selected cities and towns in Cagayan Valley Region, Philippines. Due to the pandemic, the construction industries incurred substantial profit losses. More so, the construction workers are too much affected because of the Enhance Community Quarantine (ECQ) imposed by the local government. Results indicated there was laxity on the Covid-19 protocols. No health worker in the project site ranked the highest in the health & safety factor group with an RII of 0.97 and ranked 1st among 53 factors on the different groups. Besides, no safety engineer was assigned to the projects and ranked 2nd with an RII of 0.93. Among the 7 groups of factors, the health and safety group ranked 1st with 0.81, followed by the schedule compression group with an RII of 0.78. Hence, these two groups of factors have a strong relationship, as evidenced by number of workers reduced. It was learned that the contractors’ strategy was to increase the number of working days to cope with their schedules. Hypothesis testing supported that there are various significant factors influencing labor productivity loss during the Covid-19 pandemic, as suggested by more than 50% of the respondents.

scholarly journals Analysis of influential factors affecting workers’ productivity on highway construction projects during Covid-19 pandemic in Cagayan Valley Region, Philippines

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emer Tucay Quezon ◽  
Arthur G. Ibanez
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Productivity Loss ◽  
Highway Construction ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Schedule Compression ◽  
Project Site

In highway construction projects, labor-oriented work is an integral part of the management process, requiring analysis of factors affecting labor productivity during the Covid-19 pandemic. This research identified 53 influential factors affecting construction labor productivity at selected cities and towns in Cagayan Valley Region, Philippines. Due to the pandemic, the construction industries incurred substantial profit losses. More so, the construction workers are too much affected because of the Enhance Community Quarantine (ECQ) imposed by the local government. Results indicated there was laxity on the Covid-19 protocols. No health worker in the project site ranked the highest in the health & safety factor group with an RII of 0.97 and ranked 1st among 53 factors on the different groups. Besides, no safety engineer was assigned to the projects and ranked 2nd with an RII of 0.93. Among the 7 groups of factors, the health and safety group ranked 1st with 0.81, followed by the schedule compression group with an RII of 0.78. Hence, these two groups of factors have a strong relationship, as evidenced by the number of workers reduced. It was learned that the contractors’ strategy was to increase the number of working days to cope with their schedules. Hypothesis testing supported that there are various significant factors influencing labor productivity loss during the Covid-19 pandemic, as suggested by more than 50% of the respondents.

scholarly journals Analysis of influential factors affecting workers’ productivity on highway construction projects during Covid-19 pandemic in Cagayan Valley Region, Philippines

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emer Tucay Quezon ◽  
Arthur G. Ibanez
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Productivity Loss ◽  
Highway Construction ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Schedule Compression ◽  
Project Site

In highway construction projects, labor-oriented work is an integral part of the management process, requiring analysis of factors affecting labor productivity during Covid-19 pandemic. This research identified 53 influential factors affecting construction labor productivity at selected cities and towns in Cagayan Valley Region, Philippines. Due to the pandemic, the construction industries incurred substantial profit losses. More so, the construction workers are too much affected because of the Enhance Community Quarantine (ECQ) imposed by the local government. Results indicated there was laxity on the Covid-19 protocols. No health worker in the project site ranked the highest in the health & safety factor group with an RII of 0.97 and ranked 1st among 53 factors on the different groups. Besides, no safety engineer was assigned to the projects and ranked 2nd with an RII of 0.93. Among the 7 groups of factors, the health and safety group ranked 1st with 0.81, followed by the schedule compression group with an RII of 0.78. Hence, these two groups of factors have a strong relationship, as evidenced by number of workers reduced. It was learned that the contractors’ strategy was to increase the number of working days to cope with their schedules. Hypothesis testing supported that there are various significant factors influencing labor productivity loss during the Covid-19 pandemic, as suggested by more than 50% of the respondents.

Factors affecting the delivery of optimum health and safety on construction projects during the covid-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benviolent Chigara ◽  
Tirivavi Moyo
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
Monitoring And Enforcement

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of construction professionals relative to factors that affect the delivery of optimum health and safety (H&S) on construction projects during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a quantitative design which entailed the distribution of a web-based questionnaire among construction professionals, namely, architects, construction/project managers, engineers, H&S managers and quantity surveyors working for contractors and construction consultants in Zimbabwe. The data were analysed with descriptive and inferential statistics. Factor analysis was used to reveal interrelated significant sets of factors affecting the delivery of optimum H&S. Findings Factor analysis revealed nine components/factors: change and innovation-related, monitoring and enforcement-related, production-related, access to information and health service-related, on-site facilities and welfare-related, risk assessment and mitigation-related, job security and funding-related, cost-related and COVID-19 risk perception-related factors as the significant factors affecting the delivery of optimum H&S during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe. Research limitations/implications The results highlighted the need for social dialogue among construction stakeholders to support initiatives that will enhance the delivery of H&S on construction projects. Construction stakeholders may find the results useful in highlighting the areas that need improvement to protect workers’ H&S during the pandemic. However, the small sample limits the generalisability of the results to construction sectors in other regions. Originality/value The study investigated factors affecting the delivery of optimum H&S during the COVID-19 to inform interventions to enhance H&S.

Applying Information Science Lens for Advancing Critical Research on IT Adoption

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devendra Dilip Potnis
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
It Adoption ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Significant Factors

Critical research on IT adoption dominated by cognitive models grounded in psychology and communication is always in search of new theoretical perspectives to understand, explain, and interpret social issues. Since information plays an important role in IT adoption, this study applies an information science lens to investigate the factors affecting the continued usage of mobile phones in rural India. Analysis of interviews with 22 women earning less than a dollar day reveals the influence of social, economic, cognitive, technological, and information-related factors on their continued usage of mobiles. Micro- and meso-level socioeconomic motives and active information-seeking behavior emerge as the most significant factors encouraging respondents to continue using mobiles against several technical and human barriers. The application of information science lens yields three constructs and ten micro-, meso-, and macro-level variables, advancing critical research on IT adoption with the help of a theoretical lens outside of psychology and communication literature.

scholarly journals Health literacy levels and related factors of patients admitted to an outpatient clinic in Malatya

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
E Pehlivan ◽  
K Ozdemir
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Related Factor ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Health Literacy Level

Abstract Background This study was conducted to determine the health literacy levels and related factors of the patients who applied to a health unit. Methods The population of this cross-sectional study was the patients who applied to a district outpatient clinic in the center of Malatya. Power 80% and in the 95% confidence interval based on the mean of health literacy scale of Turkey (29.5 ± 5.7) the sample size was determined as 317. In the first three months of 2019 outpatients and 384 randomized patients who agreed to participate in the study, developed by the Ministry of Health Literacy Turkey Health Questionnaire-32 (THLQ) was applied. The score obtained from the scale is considered to be insufficient of 25 and below, limited to > 25-33 points and a score of < 33 and above is sufficient. In the analysis of the data, Kolmogorov Smirnov, Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis and Chi-Kare tests were used and p < 0.05 was chosen as the level of error. Results 49.9% of the participants were male and 50.1% were female. The average age is 35.94 ± 13.8. While 24% of the participants have secondary or lower education, 40.6% are graduates of higher education. In this study,the health literacy scale mean score of the participants is 15.85 ± 11.07. According to the results of THLQ-32, 78.1% of the participants were in the “insufficient” health literacy category, 14.0% in the “limited” category, only 7.9% in the “sufficient” category. Gender, age, educational background, frequency of applying to the health institution were determined as factors affecting the level of health literacy (p < 0.05). However, the presence of a disease causing regular drug use was not identified as a related factor (p > 0.05). Conclusions In this study, although of have a high education level of the participants were found to be inadequate of health literacy levels according to Turkey average value reflects the general. Key messages According to these results, it may be difficult for the groups that are insufficient in terms of health literacy to benefit from health services. Raising the health literacy level of the society can be an important component of health promotion.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Pelaksanaan Program Keselamatan Kesehatan Kerja (K3)Terhadap Produktivitas Kerja Karyawan

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raden Indra Prawiranegara ◽  
Sri Surjani Tjahjawati
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Work Productivity ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Employee Productivity ◽  
Health Safety

Increased employee productivity and occupational health safety is the main aspect to be taken by each company. Some of the problems is a workplace that is not feasible, this can lead to hazards that can arise in the workplace itself, health workers are low, and decreased work productivity of employees. Occupational health and safety program is an effort to improve employee productivity. This study aims to determine the effect of occupational health safety to employee productivity at PT Pindad (Persero). In this study, occupational health safety is the independent variable (X) and employee productivity is the dependent variable (Y). This research is a quantitative research used descriptive method and survey method. By type and method of the study, data analysis used is descriptive analysis, a classic assumption test, regression test, correlation and hypothesis testing. This study Table Krejcie to determine the sample. By using krejcie table can be seen what will be the sample of respondents. The sample in this study were 140 respondents who are employees of PT Pindad (Persero). Results of simple linear regression, obtained by the equation Y = 33.867 + 0.209 X with R-Square of 0.603. It shows that the variable quality of work life of 60.3% impact on work productivity, while labor productivity by 39.7% influenced by other things such as work attitude, leadership, control, management of labor productivity and efficiency so that is not explained in this study. Therefore, it can be seen that there is significant health salvation to employee productivity at PT Pindad (Persero).

scholarly journals GIS-based spatial modeling to identify factors affecting COVID-19 incidence rates in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Hamidu Rahman ◽  
Niaz Mahmud Zafri ◽  
Fajle Rabbi Ashik ◽  
Md Waliullah
Keyword(s):  
Health Workers ◽  
Disease Incidence ◽  
Spatial Regression ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Incidence Rates ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Spatial Error ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Spatial Lag Model ◽  
Lag Model

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented shock throughout the world which leads to generate a massive social, human, and economic crisis. However, there is a lack of research on geographic modeling of COVID-19 as well as identification of contributory factors affecting the COVID-19 in the context of developing countries. To fulfill the gap, this study aimed to identify the potential factors affecting the COVID-19 incidence rates at the district-level in Bangladesh using spatial regression model (SRM). Therefore, data related to 32 demographic, economic, weather, built environment, health, and facilities related factors were collected and analyzed to explain the spatial variability of this disease incidence. Three global (Ordinary least squares (OLS), spatial lag model (SLM) and spatial error model (SEM)) and one local (geographically weighted regression (GWR)) SRMs were developed in this study. The results of the models showed that four factors significantly affected the COVID-19 incidence rates in Bangladesh. Those four factors are urban population percentage, monthly consumption, number of health workers, and distance from the capital. Among the four developed models, the GWR model performed the best in explaining the variation of COVID-19 incidence rates across Bangladesh with a R square value of 78.6%. Findings from this research offer a better insight into the COVID-19 situation and would help to develop policies aimed to prevent the future epidemic crisis.

Factors affecting the number of building defects and the approaches to reduce their negative impacts in Malaysian public universities’ buildings

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Hauashdh ◽  
Junaidah Jailani ◽  
Ismail Abdul Rahman ◽  
Najib Al-Fadhali
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Maintenance Phase ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Building Maintenance ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Significant Factors

Purpose The largest share of a building maintenance budget goes towards preventing or repairing building defects. Also, building defects shorten a building’s lifetime, impact the user’s safety and health, prevent the buildings from performing their functions well and repairing building defects generates waste. Therefore, this study aims to specify the factors that affecting the number of building defects and how to reduce their negative impacts. Design/methodology/approach A case study was used as a research strategy and convergent parallel mixed methods were used as research design. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected concurrently, followed by independent analyses of the quantitative and qualitative data, and then merged the two sets of results according to the procedure of using the convergent parallel design. Descriptive statistics analysed quantitative data, whilst qualitative data was analysed by the content analysis technique. Findings The findings of this study explored the factors that affect the number of defects in buildings, the significant factors were related to the building’s life cycle in terms of design, construction, operation and maintenance phase; relevant attributes were construction teams, building users and maintenance teams. The study also addressed the approaches to minimise the negative impacts of those factors. Their negative impacts mainly contributed to increased building defects that increase maintenance costs, affect users’ safety and health, reduce buildings’ lifespan and cause environmental impact due to resource extraction. Originality/value The existing studies have not adequately addressed the significant factors that affect the number of building defects. Also, emerging technologies and environmental sustainability considerations related to building defects have not been linked in previous related work. Therefore, the present study has contributed to filling this gap.

scholarly journals Institutional Factors Affecting Retention of HIV Patient on Treatment at Wuse General Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Uba Sabo Ado
Keyword(s):  
General Hospital ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Retention In Care ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Hiv Patients ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Institutional Factor ◽  
Factors Affecting

Retention On Treatment Is A Critical Factor In Reducing HIV-Related Morbidity And Mortality, The Incidence Of New Infections, And Development Of Drug Resistance Among Children And Adults. This Study Examined Institutional Factors Affecting Retention Of HIV Patients On Treatment, Care, And Support Services At Wuse General Hospital, Abuja. A Retrospective Cohort Study Was Used To Access Institutional Factors That Influence HIV Patient Retention On Treatment. About 4,564 HIV Patients Were Ever Enrolled On A Treatment Programme, And 2,791 Patients Are Currently Accessing Treatment. A Total Of 240 Clients Were Recruited For The Study, And A Pre-Tested Interviewer-Administered Semi-Structured Questionnaire Was Used For Data Collection. Data Were Entered Into Stata/MP 15.0 And Then Exported Into SPSS Version 23.0 For Statistical Analysis Of The 240 Respondents Interviewed, The Main Institutional Factor Affecting Retentions Were Long Waiting Time (61.7%), High Patient Load (46.9%), Inadequate Space For Clinics (48.3%), Poor Quality Of Services (40.8%), Difficulty In Accessing Health Facility (32.9%) And Inadequate Health Workers/Staff (31.3%). A Review Of Socio-Demographic Characteristics Of Respondents And Institutional Related Factors Affecting Retention In Treatment Showed An Association Between Marital Status (P=0.000), Religion (P=0.006), Employment Status (P=0.009), And Institutional Related Factors Affecting Retention In Care. Retention Of HIV Patients In Treatment And Care Support Services Is A Major Determinant In Achieving Sustained Viral Suppression And Reduced Community HIV Transmission. Therefore, Strategies To Mitigate Institutional Barriers To Treatment Retention Should Be Promoted To Optimize Retention Of HIV Patients In Care.

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