Effect of Basic Motivational Factors on Construction Workforce Productivity in Turkey/Pagrindinių Motyvacijos Veiksnių Įtaka Statybos Produktyvumui Turkijoje

Kazaz, Aynur; Manisalı, Ekrem; Ulubeyli, Serdar

doi:10.3846/1392-3730.2008.14.4

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“…The Turkish respondents' score is approximately 1.5 times higher than the score of the American respondents. This finding is not surprising in the current state of the Turkish construction industry, where most labourers are not formally trained; most of them are unskilled and underqualified (DPT Report 2004;Kazaz et al 2008). According to Tokman and Eryilmaz (2004), Agrali (2006), and Polat (2008c), the inadequacy of the Turkish construction labour force is much as much a problem for the construction industry in general as it is for the precast concrete industry.…”

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“…In contrast to its significant impact on national economies and people's lives, the construction industry is typically characterized by labour intensive technology, hard labour conditions, low productivity, and high risks (Kazaz et al 2008). These problematic business conditions mainly result from the slow integration of technological advances and industrialization principles such as computer-aided construction, automation, standardization, modularization, etc.…”

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Precast Concrete Systems in Developing vs. Industrialized Countries

Polat

2010

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Abstract. Precast concrete technology is recognized worldwide as offering significant advantages. Despite the advantages they offer, precast concrete building systems' share in both Turkey and the U.S. is very low, especially when compared to many European countries. Since Turkey is a developing country that is technologically dependent on the developed world, low share of industrialized building systems is highly expected in that country. However, the U.S. is a developed and industrialized country, so it was very interesting to see that these systems are not extensively used in that country either. This study investigated the factors that prevent the extensive use of precast concrete systems in the U.S. and Turkey through an extensive questionnaire survey. The survey results revealed that the perceptions of the American vs. Turkish respondents on most of the factors that affect the use of precast concrete systems are significantly different from each other. While American respondents considered size and load restrictions on transportation, poor communication among parties, and lack of qualified contractors specialized in precast concrete systems as three most important barriers to the extensive use of precast concrete systems in the U.S. building construction market, Turkish respondents ranked lack of good communication among parties and lack of structural engineers and contractors specialized in precast concrete systems as the most important three factors that prevent the extensive use of these systems in Turkey. This study indicated that precast concrete users and manufacturers should recognize that the main reasons for low utilization of precast concrete systems predominantly depend on the prevailing conditions of the country in question.

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Precast Concrete Systems in Developing vs. Industrialized Countries

Polat

2010

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“…There is a need for contractors to have increased participation from the workers in order to have increased organisational effectiveness. Kazaz et al (2008) posit that human resource has a strategic role for productivity increase of any organisation and this makes it superior in industrial competition.…”

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Organizational Effectiveness of Ugandan Building Firms as Viewed by Craftsmen

Alinaitwe

Mwakali

Hansson

2009

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Abstract. Construction industries, especially those in developing countries, face the problems of low productivity. It comes about partly due to organizational ineffectiveness. The major attributes of organizational effectiveness are identified from literature. Means to achieving greater organization effectiveness and higher productivity are identified under the major headings of cohesion and morale of workers, adaptability, information communication, and planning. Using a structured questionnaire survey on building craftsmen in Uganda, results suggest that most workers are not satisfied with the financial reward, level of status is not able to achieve personal goals. Workers are not satisfied with the level of training. The variables are weak points in organizational effectiveness. In addition, workers are not satisfied with the level of participation in decision-making. There is a need to dwell on these grey areas in order to improve the organizational effectiveness of building firms, especially in developing countries.

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“…The systematic inventory control and documentation reduce time consumption for labour to retrieve materials [41]. Other effects are on time delivery of material increases work progress, used appropriate quality material speed up finishing time, on time material procurement reduces idling time and reasonable changes reduces extra time for adjustment of resources [35][36][37]42]. …”

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“…From positive effects, effective material management has a positive impact on time optimization, cost saving, quality maximization, productivity improvement and waste minimization, [1][2][3][32][33][34]. On the other hand, ineffective material management has negative effects on project performance such as time delay, cost overrun, poor quality, loss of productivity and excessive waste generation [2,8,11,14,[35][36][37]. However, in the context of this paper, the criteria are termed in impartial form namely; time, cost, quality, productivity and waste.…”

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A Review on Implication of Material Management to Project Performance

Jusoh

Kasim

2016

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract. Material management is an important element in project management as materials contribute a major portion to total project cost. It also plays a key role because of the successes of every construction project rely on having proper resources. Thus, it gives implication on project performance. Despite the importance of material management to project performance, there are limited numbers of research available related to this topic. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify the effects factors of material management on project performance. Literature from books, journal articles and conferences papers related to this topic are reviewed. In conclusion, exploring the implication of material management towards project performance will benefit construction players in improving the efficiency of material management in order to minimize the impacts on construction projects performance.

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Effect of Basic Motivational Factors on Construction Workforce Productivity in Turkey/Pagrindinių Motyvacijos Veiksnių Įtaka Statybos Produktyvumui Turkijoje

Cited by 200 publications

References 28 publications

Precast Concrete Systems in Developing vs. Industrialized Countries

Precast Concrete Systems in Developing vs. Industrialized Countries

Organizational Effectiveness of Ugandan Building Firms as Viewed by Craftsmen

A Review on Implication of Material Management to Project Performance

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