The impact of non‐financial incentives on bricklayers' productivity in Nigeria

Fagbenle, Olabosipo I.; Adeyemi, Aderemi Y.; Adesanya, D.A.

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“…Experience (Exp) variable has negative and no significant effect on productivity. The results of this study were not aligned with the research results Blanchard and Thacker (2004), Fagbenle et al (2012), Brown and Medoff (1989) and Acemoglu (1998) this states that work experience is reflected in the workers who have the work experience in other places before. The employee with more work experience is more skilled to do the job.…”

Section: Productivity Analysis Modelcontrasting

confidence: 91%

The Level of Wage and Labor Productivity in Hotel Industry: An Analysis

Fatma¹,

Kadir²,

Sariman³

et al. 2017

EJEF

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Wage a phenomenon that happen today is high wage and high competitiveness. Wage theory that was developed by Rees (1973) and Katz (1980) explain that wage cannot only be seen only as a production cost but also as a part of an effort to increase the labor prosperity and motivation. This theory is a wage efficiency theory, which stated that company's revenue can increase despite paying wage above the market wage equilibrium. Even though here the two experts had calculated the problem of labor's quality but they have not reach empirical testing by developing certain model. Therefore, the researchers saw this gap as an opportunity to unravel the phenomena happening to labor and make an effort to develop an empirical model to see the influence of wage to productivity and variable that can measure the quality of labor and other variables that affect wage and productivity simultaneously. The factors used are the difference in individual characteristic, human capital, and quality of work life. The approach of this research is constructivism approach through quantitative analysis technique with simultaneous equation system. Analysis unit in this research is labor in hospitality industry. Estimation results of research shows that education, training, experience, work hour and productivity have significant positive influence to wage, while age and work status is not significant. Quality of work life, and wage have significant positive influence to productivity, while education, experience, age and work status have no significant influence. Important finding from research that training has significant influence to productivity but negatively. Overall, findings of this research show that positive effect of training to productivity will be bigger in organization that willing to invest in work environment that support the labor.

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Section: Productivity Analysis Modelcontrasting

confidence: 91%

The Level of Wage and Labor Productivity in Hotel Industry: An Analysis

Fatma¹,

Kadir²,

Sariman³

et al. 2017

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“…The aim of the analysis was to establish the relative importance of the various factors. The relative importance index (RII) was calculated using the formula adopted by Fagbenle et al, (2004). …”

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Towards Entrepreneurial Learning Competencies: The Perspective of Built Environment Students

Kissi¹,

Matthew²,

Samuel³

2015

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This paper sought to discuss entrepreneurial learning competencies by determining the outcome of entrepreneurial learning on the views of built environment students in the university setting. In this study, three relevant competencies were identified for entrepreneurial learning through literature, namely: entrepreneurial attitude, entrepreneurial skills and knowledge of entrepreneurship. On this basis, questionnaire was designed and administered to graduate students in built environment. In all, a total of 124 questionnaires were administered to respondents. Out this, 84 were retrieved representing a response rate of 68% and were further subjected to analysis using Relative Importance Index (RII). The findings from the study highlighted on competencies factors that have great impact on entrepreneurs in dealing with tasks and problems related to entrepreneurial learning processes. These key entrepreneurial competencies as perceived by the built environment students were ranked as: entrepreneurial attitude, knowledge of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skill. The findings may help stakeholders in the building industry including up-coming graduate students. Thus, it could help in their journey into entrepreneurial terrain affiliated to advancement of their career, as a way to increase private wealth and the pursuit of a more balanced life.

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“…The quality and effectiveness of vocational programs varies depending upon the secondary and postsecondary levels. Large sized and medium sized construction firms highly prefer recruiting workers from vocational training avenues (Fagbenle et al, 2012).…”

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Effects of skills, motivation, and personality traits on the competency of masons

Choudhry

Zafar

2017

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Abstract:Incompetency of masons is a problem because they execute many construction activities. This imparts the need to identify factors that affect the competency of masons on construction sites. Factors related to motivation, skills and personality traits are identified. A questionnaire instrument consisting of 15 factors related to the three categories was forwarded to masons on construction projects. Responses collected on a five-point Likert scale were analysed for relative importance index (RII), which was used as the basis for ranking the factors. 'Resistance to change', 'lack of appreciation', and 'lack of formal training' were identified as the first, second, and third most important factors affecting the competency of masons on construction projects. The impact of the category of motivation was found to be the highest on the competency of masons, followed by skills, and personality traits. These findings may be utilised as an assessment tool for determining the competency of masons and identifying areas that need improvements.Keywords: masons; competency; performance; skills; motivation; personality traits.Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Choudhry, R.M. and Zafar, B. (2017) has demonstrated a strong interest in improving the efficiency, productivity and safety of construction projects. He has published 81 papers in refereed journals and conferences.Bilal Zafar is a graduate student in the

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The impact of non‐financial incentives on bricklayers' productivity in Nigeria

Cited by 35 publications

References 10 publications

The Level of Wage and Labor Productivity in Hotel Industry: An Analysis

The Level of Wage and Labor Productivity in Hotel Industry: An Analysis

Towards Entrepreneurial Learning Competencies: The Perspective of Built Environment Students

Effects of skills, motivation, and personality traits on the competency of masons

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