AWAM International Conference on Civil Engineering 2019 (AICCE'19) - Nibong Tebal - Malaysia (2019-08-21)

Evaluation of Human Factors Influencing Labor Productivity in Construction Project
In construction project, there always be a construction workers or known as labors which will be an important factor to determine the successful of the project. Construction labor productivity is a crucial measurement of productivity where there is a relationship between the unit output of the labors with their work hours spent in the period of the output progress. Productivity of labors is directly related to human performance which can be influenced by human factors. The main aim of this study is to evaluate the human factors influencing labor productivity in construction projects at Bukit Mertajam, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. The research has identified and evaluated five human factors which are motivational, skills, communication, work culture and leadership through the literature review, site observation and distribution of structured questionnaire and analysed using IBM SPSS statistic software. The results indicated that all the human factors are considered very significant to the labor productivity in construction project. The five human factors were ranked from the most important to the least important based on the relative important index (RII) and the rank are presented as follows: communication aspect, work culture aspect, motivational aspect, leadership aspect and skills aspect.
Mrs. Nor Janna Tammy