Motivation as a Tool for Ensuring Productivity Improvement in Turkish Construction Industry

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2016-05-28

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Kazaz, Aynur
Birgönül, Mustafa Talat
Acıkara, Turgut
Er, Bayram

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Recently, human resource, which is crucial to ensure productivity improvement, became one of the most important competition tools. Employing the labor force in an effective way will provide to benefit from the advantages of productivity improvement. In this aspect, determination and evaluation of the factors affecting labor productivity will ease the right employment of labor force. In the literature, there are numerous researches related with the factors affecting labor productivity. However, in most of these studies motivation theories were neglected and critical factors were not correlated with motivation schemes. The aim of this study is to correlate the factors affecting labor productivity in Turkey with motivation schemes. For this purpose a two-step study was conducted. In the first step, factors affecting labor productivity were categorized under 4 different factors groups named as organizational, economical, socio-physiological and physical, respectively and a questionnaire was administered to craft workers. The results of the questionnaires were evaluated by using Relative Importance Index (RII). In the second step, productivity improvement based on motivation theories was investigated by reviewing the literature. The results revealed that, the most important schemes for craft workers and managers were economical and organizational schemes, respectively

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/78414

Conference Name

International Conference On Engineering and Natural Science, (24 - 28 Mayıs 2016)

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Department of Civil Engineering, Conference / Seminar

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A. Kazaz, M. T. Birgönül, T. Acıkara, and B. Er, “Motivation as a Tool for Ensuring Productivity Improvement in Turkish Construction Industry,” presented at the International Conference On Engineering and Natural Science, (24 - 28 Mayıs 2016), Saray Bosna, Bosna-Hersek, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/78414.