Abstract
Construction work, as well as other production process depends on how people work towards it. The success of the work is determined by labor productivity. Labor productivity is affected by many factors such as human factors, environment, labor condition, leadership, type of work, level of difficulty etc. This article will discuss how these aspects influence the value of labor productivity. We limit our research on wage, age and experience from 15 to 30 workers in the brick work. The research is held in 4 construction sites in Kota Langsa, Aceh, Indonesia in late 2016 until early 2017. We observe the effective time, time of contribution, ineffective time work and the work volume. Productivity is obtained by dividing the work volume and the effective time work. The result shows that the amount of wage influences the labor productivity. Nonetheless, we found that age and experience do not affect labor productivity. Interestingly, the experience workers in any ages will increase the value of labor productivity.
Highlights
Kerzner [1] states that the real failure of project management is when the outputs or results are not what we expected
We found that age and experience do not affect labor productivity
Labor productivity as other project performance indicators is affected by various factors that could bring the project performance into positive or negative impacts
Summary
Kerzner [1] states that the real failure of project management is when the outputs or results are not what we expected. He studied that in 1990’s a failure is attributed to poor morale, poor motivation, poor human resources, no employee commitment and poor productivity. State that productivity is related with inputs and outputs of work. Productivity is understood as how many hours people need to deliver a unit of activity which will determine how long the work could be finished. People who work in construction industry tend to optimize their ability according to the project schedule, because time is very delicate in the industry
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