An evaluation of productivity factors in Tanzania

This paper is based on research aimed at evaluating construction labour productivity with the view to improving construction industry performance in Tanzania. Comparative analysis of macro-productivity with Kenya, and UK over a 25 year period indicated a downward trend. Analysis of site based produc...

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Main Authors:	Ninatubu Mbora Lema, Andrew Price
Format:	Default Conference proceeding
Published:	1996
Subjects:	Other built environment and design not elsewhere classified Labour productivity Productivity factors Developing countries Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/33426
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spelling	rr-article-94312491996-01-01T00:00:00Z An evaluation of productivity factors in Tanzania Ninatubu Mbora Lema (7175801) Andrew Price (1257918) Other built environment and design not elsewhere classified Labour productivity Productivity factors Developing countries Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified This paper is based on research aimed at evaluating construction labour productivity with the view to improving construction industry performance in Tanzania. Comparative analysis of macro-productivity with Kenya, and UK over a 25 year period indicated a downward trend. Analysis of site based productivity data indicated a wide variability and that its distribution was skewed to the left suggesting that productivity was low for most of the operatives. These characteristics were indicative of the productivity improvement potential in ~e building construction industry. This paper follows on from these findings by .discovering some of the possible factors contributing to the variability through an opinion survey involving key construction process owners. The paper reports on productivity factors as perceived by construction operatives. A total of 50 operatives were interviewed to provide their ratings on the influence of predetermined factors on their productivity. An evaluation of the results indicated a high degree of consistency. The ratings were then used as a basis of general ranking of the factors. An independent sample of 40 operatives' opinion was used to validate the results. The operatives' ratings were then compared with results of an opinion survey amongst contractors. A detailed description of the statistical tools and procedures used in the analysis is presented. 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Conference contribution 2134/33426 https://figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/An_evaluation_of_productivity_factors_in_Tanzania/9431249 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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spellingShingle	Other built environment and design not elsewhere classified Labour productivity Productivity factors Developing countries Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified Ninatubu Mbora Lema Andrew Price An evaluation of productivity factors in Tanzania
description	This paper is based on research aimed at evaluating construction labour productivity with the view to improving construction industry performance in Tanzania. Comparative analysis of macro-productivity with Kenya, and UK over a 25 year period indicated a downward trend. Analysis of site based productivity data indicated a wide variability and that its distribution was skewed to the left suggesting that productivity was low for most of the operatives. These characteristics were indicative of the productivity improvement potential in ~e building construction industry. This paper follows on from these findings by .discovering some of the possible factors contributing to the variability through an opinion survey involving key construction process owners. The paper reports on productivity factors as perceived by construction operatives. A total of 50 operatives were interviewed to provide their ratings on the influence of predetermined factors on their productivity. An evaluation of the results indicated a high degree of consistency. The ratings were then used as a basis of general ranking of the factors. An independent sample of 40 operatives' opinion was used to validate the results. The operatives' ratings were then compared with results of an opinion survey amongst contractors. A detailed description of the statistical tools and procedures used in the analysis is presented.
format	Default Conference proceeding
author	Ninatubu Mbora Lema Andrew Price
author_facet	Ninatubu Mbora Lema Andrew Price
author_sort	Ninatubu Mbora Lema (7175801)
title	An evaluation of productivity factors in Tanzania
title_short	An evaluation of productivity factors in Tanzania
title_full	An evaluation of productivity factors in Tanzania
title_fullStr	An evaluation of productivity factors in Tanzania
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title_sort	evaluation of productivity factors in tanzania
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An evaluation of productivity factors in Tanzania

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