Study on Assessment of Factors Improving Job site Productivity

Construction productivity trends carry immense consequences for the economy as a whole. Job site Productivity is one of the most important factors affecting the overall performance of any organization whether large or small organization. The study assess the factors that affect job-site productivity in consideration on recruitment policy, types of training and factors that affect quality of workers and their contribution to the various organizations surveyed. This is done through the self-administration of structured questionnaires to elicit information from the respondents using convenience sampling method. Jobsite productivity is mainly concerned with the labour. The continuous productivity improvement process help the management to identify the productivity inhibitors affecting site labour in order to reduce or eliminate these issues, and to measure improvements. Job-site productivity is influenced by many factors such as labour related factors, management related factors, efficiency, project related factors, resource factors. Questionnaire was prepared for engineers, contractors and the survey has been carried out . Survey design will gives a quantitative description of phenomenon such as trends, attitudes, or opinion. From the collected data it is concluded that the project related factors (79%), labour related factors had a strong impact on improving productivity whereas the factors such as management related factors (67%), resource related factors (62%) and efficiency factors (48%) affects the growth of productivity. So these factors are to be improved to enhance the growth of productivity in construction.