A Study on Labor Productivity in Construction Industry

Construction is the world's largest and most challenging industry. Labor Productivity performance plays a key role in determining the financial outcome of any construction project. Labor cost generally make up 30 to 50% of overall project cost in construction phase. Productivity improvements achieve higher cost savings with minimal investment.Achieving better labor productivity requires detailed studies of the actual labor cost. For every project, productivity, cost, quality, and time have been the main concern. Better productivity can be achieved if project management includes the skills of education and training, the work method, personal health, motivational factors, the type of tools, machines, required equipment and materials, personal skills, the workload to be executed, expected work quality, work location, the type of work to be done, and supervisory personnel. Productivity has a great significance in construction. Labor productivity constitutes a significant part of production input for construction projects. In the construction industry, many external and internal factors are never constant and are difficult to anticipate. This factor leads to a continuous variation in labor productivity. This paper gives the detail study regarding labor productivity such as its definition, its types, different factors affecting on it, different methods used for its analysis.